Summary

• Nintendo Switch offers a wide variety of classic GameCube games for gamers to enjoy on the go, including Pikmin 1 + Pikmin 2, Resident Evil 0, Tales of Symphonia Remastered, and more.
• The remastered editions of these games provide players with enhanced graphics, new features, and improved gameplay experiences.
• From intense survival horror and epic RPG adventures to challenging shoot 'em up games and beloved platformers like Super Mario Sunshine, there is something for everyone to enjoy on the Nintendo Switch.

Nintendo has an incredible history of making some phenomenal games, across the many consoles it's released over the years. Their most recent innovation, the 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Nintendo Switch, has enjoyed a surfeit of major hits, while also bridging contemporary fans to an older generation of GameCube classics.

Since the Switch hit shelves back in 2017, plenty of remakes, remasters, and po🌺rts of GameCube gems have made their wa𓂃y to the little console that could. Whether you grew up with these veterans, or are just experiencing them for the first time, you’re guaranteed to have a great time GameCubing on the go.

Updated on August 15, 2024 by Bobby Mills: There's just something about the GameCube library that's inherently magical, isn't there? It hovers in that odd between-realm of not being quite pixelated enough to be deemed 'retro,' yet still obviously a product of the mid-2000s. There's no shortage of sixth-gen goodness on the Switch, so we thought we'd tart up our ranking of the best GCN offerings. Enjoy.

12 Asterix & Obelix XXL 2 ♑

These Romans Are Down In Las Vegum

Though he's never quite been able to break through to the American market, the European comic book hero Asterix remains a legend on his home turf. In fact, in France, he's analogous to Mickey Mouse, complete with his own expansive theme park! It's fitting, then, that the gallant Gaul has such a wide array of videogame adaptations, with the best arguably being XXL 2 on GameCube.

The Switch's HD port of this seminal slap-em-up is a QoL dream. It sands off the rough edges of the GCN days, and what we're left with is pure, unadulterated fun. Switching between Asterix himself and his pal Obelix, you navigate Las Vegum, dispatching horde upon horde of Roman legions with satisfying, button-smashing combat. Platforming and puzzly bits break up the pace, and the game's irreverent digs at nerd culture (boss Romans dress as famous characters like Mario and Sonic) keep the guffaws coming throughout, by Toutatis.

11 🧜 SpongeBob SquarePants: Battle Fo♊r Bikini Bottom Rehydrated

Who Lives In A Remaster Under The Sea?

Spyro got reignited, Mickey got rebrushed, and SpongeBob got... rehydrated. Poor guy, he must have been parched. Battle For Bikini Bottom is the very definition of a 'cult classic'; a nostalgic platforming favourite that took on a booming second life in the speedrunning community. Notable for being a rare case of a licensed tie-in that doesn't suck, it was only a matter of time before execs ಌtook notice of the fan furor.

Enter Battle For Bikini Bottom Rehydrated, a ground-up remake that brings this beloved undersea odyssey bang up to date. Making use of the original code, while ensuring SpongeBob's movement and the difficulty level conform to modern expectations, it's the perfect balance of old and new. The town's never looked better – though no amount of TLC could ever make that impostor Mr. Krabs sound right. Or make the Kelp Forest any less aggravating.

10 Pi⛄kmin 1 + Pikmin 2

Two Classic Games About Little Plants

• 	Pikmin 1	Pikmin 2
  Franchise	Pikmin	Pikmin
  Platform(s)	Wii, Switch, GameCube	Wii, Switch, GameCube
  Released	2001-12-02	2004-08-30
  Developer(s)	Nintendo EAD	Nintendo EAD
  Publisher(s)	Nintendo	Nintendo
  Genre(s)	Real-Time Strategy, Puzzle	Real-Time Strategy, Puzzle
  ESRB	E10+ For Everyone 10+ Due To Mild Fantasy Violence	E10+ For Everyone 10+ Due To Comic Mischief, Fantasy Violence, Mild Blood

There’s so much to love about 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:the charming Pikmin games – despite the anxiety-inducing timer on each day, the imminent threat of death with ever🐻y run, and the hostile world that you have to navigate. Its candy-coated exterior belies the abject horror within.

While losing your little minions can be tragic, the chance to experience the origin of one of the most unique game series in the Nintendo stable is not to be passed up. The first two 🐬Pikmin games are available individually or as a bundle, giving you plenty of options on which adventure you want to take. 1 is more of a tech demo (though some may appreciate its simplicity), while 2 adds dungeon crawling.

9 Resident ⛎Evil 0 ♍

The Origin Of The Raccoon City Outbreak

One of the more creative classic Resident Evil games, Resident Evil 0 explores the origin of 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:the viral outbreak at Raccoon City, following S.T.A.R.S. officer Rebecca Chambers and the imprisoned Billy Coen in a terrifying escape that runs parallel to the original Resident Evil game. And parallel narrativeꦍs are tight.

This game lets you swap between the two characters, as they both have unique skills that help you survive the zombie infestation plaguing the city. The HD remake was designed with the original showrunner Koji Oda on the team, ensuring that the remake is faithful to the original game. It's a gratuitous gorefest, and it's a scream.

8 Tales of꧑ Symphonia Remastered

The RPG Epic That Popularized The Series

If you’re looking for 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:a classic RPG epic, then look no further than Tales of Symphonia, a game so huge that it required two GameCube disks to hold everything. While you (thankfully) don’t need two Switch cartridges for the remake, it's still a colossal experience.

While the remake suffers from some performance issues, as do many Switch ports, Tales of Symphonia remains one of the best role-playing games from the GameCube era. There are plenty of characters to become (selectively) attached to, and the game still lets you play with up to three other friends for ♈some couch co-op adventures.

7 Ikaruga

Send Them All To Bullet Hell

Epic, 60-hour adventures are great, but sometimes you just need to test your skills with a classic arcade shmup. Ikaruga stands apart from other bullet hells with its polarity system; players are able to switch their ship from black to white, and then back, at the push of a button. Sonic Frontiers would rip this off two dꦦecades later for its terrible final boss fight.

The game will unload waves of bullets at you, both white and black. If you’re hit with a bullet of the opposite colour, you’ll be destroyed – but if it's of a matching color, you’ll absorb it for a powerful special attack. There are not a ton of stages, but that’s okay when the game is as punishingly brutal as this. You'll welcome the credits roll.

6 🌠 Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: Remastered Edition

You Won’t Need A Link Cable To Play

One of the coolest games back in the GameCube’s heyday was Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles. While the single-player ver🧜sion of the adventure was fine, the real joy was grabbing a few friends and linking up your Game Boy Advance to the GameCube with a Link Cable in a local co-op adventure. Assuming, of course, anyone in your friend group owned a Link Cable. The chances of this were statistically low.

Each Game Boy Advance would display different information about the game, which was a bit prohibitive for some players, b𒁏ut very fun if you could pull it off (and had the rapid-fire communication skills of a bomb disposal squad). The remake no longer requires you to jump through so many hoops to play with friꦺends, which is great since the game includes loads of new dungeons, voice acting, and online multiplayer to savour.

5 Super Monkey🌳 Ball Banana Mania

Rollin’ Around At The Speed Of Sound

Strictly speaking, Super Monkey Ball Banana Mania isn’t a remaster or remake of one of the GameCube games in the series. However, it does include all 300 stages from💫 the original Super Mo𒁏nkey Ball 1 and 2, complete with some upgrades to modernise the level design, so it qualifies for our list.

Factoring in the upgraded version of the GameCube games, the roster of playable characters has been bumped up from four to a whopping twelve, and includes faces from other games, like Beat from Jet Set Radio, Sonic and Tails, and even Kiryu from the Yakuza series, all rolling around in the little plastic balls. It's adorable.

4 ꦗ Super Mario Sunshine (Super Mario 3D All-Stars) ღ

Cleaning Has Never Been So Fun

The main Mario game from the GameCube era took several risks and departures from traditional plumber formulae, resulting in one of the most divisive entries in the franchise, Super Mario Sunshine. Speedrunners love it, casuals loathe it, and some folks are in between – but its charm cannot be denied. It can be experienced via the Mario 3D All-Stars collection, in crisp HD and with 𒀰improved controls.

Super Mario 3D All-Stars was a limited-time offering released to commemorate the Big M's 35th anniversary. It compiles Super Mario 64, Super Mario Sunshine, and Super Mario Galaxy – but if you didn't pick it up digitally back in 2020, you're out of luck as it was pulled from storefronts. Ah, artificial scarcity.

To play it nowadays, you'll need a second-hand physical copy, which, luckily, aren't especially expensive.

Super Mario Sunshine ✃sees Mario and Princess Peach vacationing in Isle Delfino, an island in the shape of a dolphin that has been plagued with goo splattered by someone who𓂃 looks a lot like Mario. You know, if you have the eyesight of a mole and the logical reasoning of a rock – oh hi Piantas, we were just talking about you. Mazza gets framed for the crime; so with the water cannon pack F.L.U.D.D. (and more dialogue than anyone expects from a Mario game), you have to clean up the entire paradise.

3 Resident Evi♊l 4 ⛦

Evil Never Dies

What more can be said about Resident Evil 4 that hasn’t been beaten to, er, undeath by now? One of the best horror games on the GameCube has been re-released, remastered, and upgraded multiple times over the years, resulting🤪 in tons of ways for players to experience the game. The Switch iteration tops the list by some margin.

Despite the game being almost 20 years old, it remains a banger. Everything from the one-liners, to the terrifying evolution of the T-Virus and other zombie tropes that the series had become known for, makes for a spo🤪oktacular outing to this day.