[General Discussion] Games you consider "Perfect"?

Okay well, first I'll go ahead and renominate Chrono Trigger, for obvious and already-stated reasons. I'll also renominate Valkyrie Profile.

As far as new stuff goes? First up is Dark Cloud 2. Has there even been another game that has improved so dynamically upon its predecessor? No. None that you could convince me of, anyway, save maybe for Zelda: Ocarina of Time. Maybe. In any case, the only plausible flaw that game has is the dungeon crawling which, compared to the first game, wasn't bad at all. In fact, it's perfect for the kind of game DC2 is, so that disqualifies the flaw. It's bright, vivid, has some great characters and a decent musical score as well. And the Atlamilia and rebuilding cities? Yeah, that's made of nothing but win.

Another new one for the crowd -- Sim City on the SNES. I left my SNES on for a week just to let my population reach its peak of "megapolis" or something to that effect. I had so much fun building cities that time seemed of little consequence while playing. No other Sim City game has come close to recreating that experience for me.

Age of Empires II was also fun as hell. I really enjoyed just playing random games, but damn was AoE 2 fun. I played for hours on end just messin around. Dunno what it was about the game, but it, along with its predecessor, laid the groundwork for my future RTS experiences.

Zone of the Enders 2 was awesome. I've played through it at least 20+ times. I love mech combat, and the controls for ZOE2 are little short of flawless. It's a beautiful game too, with a mix of cel-shading and 3D for everything. A few of the battles are stand-out too, namely the one with Zakat, the huge Dynasty Warriors-esque fight, and the fight with Ardjet when it was contaminated by Viola. Win.

Last but never, ever least -- Okami. Okami made me say "Fuck Zelda." A goddess reborn into a wolf to tell one of the most fascinating and creative stories ever puts Okami at the absolute #1 point on my list. The watercolor cel-shading was absolutely perfect for Okami's tale, leaving nothing to be desired graphically. The score was absolutely fitting in every instance music was playing. Combat was great fun -- playing a huge-sword wielding, bead-whip wearing, shield-bashing wolf goddess was awesome. And oh yeah, the Celestial Brush? Best. Gameplay mechanic. EVER. Everytime I gained a new brush technique I would return to old areas and try the new tricks out, and that was something Okami truly shined in -- bringing you back to the first areas. There wasn't anything I didn't enjoy doing in Okami, and I hope another developer will be brave and take on the daunting task of creating another game like Okami, since hte most awesome and incredible Clover Studios is out of the picture.

Jam it back in, in the dark.