what would say are the NES's 'must play' games?

Is pottery like that? I was about to enroll in a ceramics class but I guess I'm gonna skip it.

It's not untested. It was tested by devs and kids. Then casuals complained "waaaah the game is too hard!!" so the dev's excuse to that was to blame the kids testing the game saying "they already knew the game well so they didn't realize!"

Japanese players always complained "waaah the game is too hard!! make it easier on me please I just want to see the content without having to think!" at the time, same thing happened with Mother and Final Fantasy III final dungeon as well. This is part of why the genre went slowly to shit and why all the subsequent ports and remakes always make the games easier by reducing the encounter rate, changing stats of gear to make them powerful, or giving you new OP gear and other means to acquire powerful stuff.

The original version of DQ2 is the better balanced version. Yes, starting from the Path to Rhone the game gets hard, but it's the end of the game, there is nothing wrong with that, and if you're smart about it, draw your own map and don't hit air, you can do it at lvl 25 and read the final boss at lvl 30 which is what you should be at that point. The SNES version that part is just a cakewalk which is stupid and I've played many other Famicom jRPGs which were more difficult and had bigger difficulty spikes.

Enlighten me then, how else would I describe a "must play nes game"?

Or should nobody bother to list any games since no one's required to play anything?

The short answer is obviously "Gumshoe". But come on dude, it's pretty clear why somebody might consider some of the best NES games to be off the "must-play NES games" list. I love Double Dragon II NES as well, and I don't care at all about other versions of it and will probably never play them, but this is still clear enough to me: If another version of the game is similar but superior, then you might consider the NES version to be an unimportant curiosity that needn't be pursued by somebody who has access to all games from all consoles, as each of us in fact does.

I mean yeah we're all being jackasses by arguing about it like this, and you could accuse other anon of THAT, but your argument about "must-play NES game" implying "best NES game" is still wrong. For what little that's worth.

>Contextually I just couldn't fight my obsession with disregarding reality and insisting the voices in my head are the real reality

Except you've been told already, Double Dragon II on NES plays completely differently from the other versions of Double Dragon II and most people would agree it's one of the best b-mups on the system alongside TMNT3 and Mighty Final Fight

From what you're saying it sounds like you haven't even played it, just shut the frick up already

>Except you've been told already, the voices in my head are the real reality. It doesn't matter that OP asked for. I will just keeping saying it was something else because I'm literally psychotic.

You know what. I changed my mind. I now agree that what someone actually said doesn't matter. Only what I imagine they should have said. So what you actually said is irrelevant and what I quoted you as saying is reality.
Checkmate schizo.

He is right though. DDII on the NES sucks balls compared to the Genesis version or the original arcade