Konami Video Games Bucket List

The Trinity Sight system: the same war told three times, from three sides, before they converge.

The last of the main run: a court intrigue in the Queendom of Falena, and the closest the series came to Suikoden II.

The Mega Drive entry: 1917 Europe, two playable hunters and a stage that walks up the leaning tower of Pisa.

A prisoner loose in the town after a crash, in rain that makes the monsters worse; the last one Konami published before the reboot.

The 2010 reboot by MercurySteam, with Patrick Stewart narrating and a combat system borrowed from God of War.

A retelling with no combat at all - you run, and the game quietly psychoanalyses you and rewrites itself.

The whip finally aims in eight directions; the 1991 remake of the first game and its high point on the SNES.

The prequel: a lorry driver stops at a burning house seven years before the first game.

A soldier comes home to Shepherd’s Glen looking for his brother; the first made outside Japan.

Soma Cruz absorbing the souls of everything he kills, and the best of the DS trilogy.

The first handheld Metroidvania of the run, with a card system that stacks two decks of magic.

The 2025 entry: 1960s Japan, a town swallowed by fog and flowers, written by Ryukishi07.

An apartment you cannot leave, chained from the inside, with a hole in the bathroom wall.

The hardest of the run to score in, and the version the European online leagues settled on.

Richter Belmont, branching stages and Maria as a second character; the PC Engine game the West never got.

Costa Rica in 1974, a mother base to staff by kidnapping soldiers, and bosses built for two players.

Konami drop the Pro Evolution Soccer name in 2021 and restart the series as a free season update.

Konami bring Winning Eleven to Europe in 2001 with invented kit names and passing nobody else could match.

Branching paths and three companions; the best of the NES Castlevanias.

Soul-stealing in 2035, and the GBA Metroidvania fans rate highest.

Heather in the mall and the amusement park; the direct sequel to the first.

Simon Belmont, a whip and stairs that will kill you; the 1986 original.

108 Stars of Destiny, a castle to fill and a war between brothers; Konami's first.

Harry Mason looks for his daughter in a town that changes; the fog was a draw-distance trick.

Four turtles through history, throwing Foot soldiers at the screen.

Cross the road, cross the river, do not drown; five lanes of 1981 traffic.