I love Nintendo, and I love retro games. I thought N64 was my favorite console because some of my friends had one, and I never owned it myself. I LOVED playing it at their house. But now that I have it, I realize that all it has really got is Zelda and Mario. Everything else plays really badly imo. So after finishing Mario 64, Pokemon Snap and playing the Pokemon Stadium 1/2 minigames to death, I'm out of things to do with it.
But I'm a 96 kid. PS2 and GameCube was my era. So I've ordered everything I need to make my DOL-001 slick and ready. But as a kid, I only owned Mario Kart and Melee. Which means there is absolutely no nostalgia for me when playing Sunshine or any Mario title, any Zelda game, Pokemon Colosseum/XD, Metroid. It will be a 100% fresh playthrough. And sad as it is, my playtime on the Zelda serious my entire life is about 2 hours total. I did main Link in Melee though.
My question: are the games (really fucking) good on their own, without the nostalgia? This is not a critique post. It's just a discussion, and I wanna hear some fellow GameCube fans speak from their heart what they love about their games.