We take a look at four games we feel deserve the remake treatment.

With the recently released Bionic Commando: Rearmed, we got to thinking about a few other games that we would love to receive the caring and loving treatment that Grin and Capcom have given Bionic Commando. What we have come up with are four games we feel are deserving of being brought into modern light, not by emulation via Virtual Console, but actually fully remade with sharp HD graphics, re-balanced difficulties, and proper translations.

Metroid 2: Return of Samus

System: Game Boy |Release Date: August 1991|Publisher: Nintendo

The sequel to the NES game Metroid, Metroid 2 saw our heroine, Samus, hunting metroids on their home planet in monochrome visuals courtesy of the Game Boy screen. What do we want out of a remake for this game? Color. The rest of the game can be left untouched, but we just want some color. Oh sure, there was that announced Metroid 2 DX version for Game Boy Color that never came out or even that IPS patch that puts color into the rom. But we want to play guilt free and besides, who doesn’t want a HD 2D Metroid game?

Castlevania 2: Simon’s Quest

System: NES |Release Date: December 1988|Publisher: Konami

Castlevania 2 is infamous for a lot of reasons. For starters, the game has a poor translation but even if the translation was solid, those damn villagers would still lie to about everything possible. The day-night cycle, while neat, brought on the crawling text that you just couldn’t skip. But all of these things made the game frustratingly good. So Konami, we want a Castlevania 2 uplift with slightly faster text that’s it.

Super Mario Bros. 3

System: NES |Release Date: January 1990|Publisher: Nintendo

Imagine Super Mario Bros. 3 made in New Super Mario Bros. fashion. Come on Nintendo, that’s like free money. Pack in all the content of the Super Mario Advance 4: Super Mario Bros. 3 and those 14 million copies that New Super Mario Bros. sold would be smashed.


Ninja Gaiden 2: The Dark Sword of Chaos

System: NES |Release Date: May 1990|Publisher: Tecmo

With Tomonobu Itagaki gone, Tecmo is left with the Ninja Gaiden license and a few legal troubles if what the news reports say is true. So how can they make up some of that cash? Remake one of the best Ninja Gaiden games, Ninja Gaiden 2: The Dark Sword of Chaos. By using the Ninja Gaiden Sigma engine, adding some new weapons and scrolls, and boss fights that didn’t throw you at the beginning of the stage and I think Tecmo could recover some of those legal costs.