The Five Most Underrated Platformers of all Time

Ray Porreca of Entertainment Buddha writes: "Within the platforming genre as a whole, the robust selection of games available led to a variety of options. Starting from more simplistic 2D platforming games, the genre continued to grow all the way into massive, fully 3D games such as the Nintendo 64’s Super Mario 64. As platformers became more abundant, some of the best offerings quickly became out shadowed by games featuring company ‘mascots’ that dominated the market."

[HAMM3RofBUDDHA]

I can honestly say I've never heard of any of these but would be willing to check them out if they release on PlayStation Now.

[Ilovetheps5]

I played Ty the Tasmanian Tiger so much. It's amazing. If you have a PS2 lying around, pick it up for cheap. You won't regret it. I mean, haven't you ever wanted to use boomerangs as your weapon in a video game?

[SilentNegotiator]

I personally found the Ty series just OK. Not bad, just OK. It was no Banjo-Kazooie/Tooie or Mario 64 or Spyro anyway.

[3-4-5]

* Mystical Ninja 64

[nope111]

Mischief Makers was amazing!111 loved that awesome game.

[TheLyonKing]

One of the hardest games on the n64 but so addictive. Just picking up the wee guys and throwing them around gave me endless fun as a kid.

[nirwanda]

I owned everyone of those games except ty, I loved mischief makers, I also loved klonoa.

[Loadedklip]

Loved Mischief Makers ... I believe Treasure was the developer. Not sure why Nintendo doesn't just buy them.

[dark-kyon]

Mischief Makers is a of more specials games what i been playing ever.

[godofboobees]

Mystical ninja anyone?

[nirwanda]

Hell yeah, crazy game, good multi player too.

[Lighter9]

Shake shake

[TWB]

Wow I wanna thank the person whoever made that article/brought it to this site.

Heart of Darkness ? I remember receiving a demo disc from a kelloggs rice crispies package when I was a kid and one of the games was so different and intimidating from the rest.

I only remembered the game itself but not the name and I have lost the demo disc ages ago. Now as a adult the game feels very tempting and interesting. Im definitely going to search for a legit copy of that game.

Ty the tasmanian tiger was also great, played that for hours at my friends house.

One game that I would have added to that list would be Tombi/Tomba (1/2), the second one is definitely my favourite game ever (combination of golden memories, nostalgia and childhood memories)

[McScroggz]

Is Tomba too well known for a list like this? Not sure. Glad to see Klonoa number one, it was a really great platformer. I actually think it would be a great game for Sony to revive as a budget/downloadable only game. SCEJ get on it!

[captainexplosion]

I've been playing Rayman Legends on Vita and I think that has to be the most underrated platformer Ive ever played. I consider the Ratchet series to be incredibly underrated too. Sure, they are popular games but they never got the credit they deserve. LBP Vita and Klonoa were also really underrated. Super Mario 3D Land was also considered great but still vastly underrated. I thought it was easily the best Mario game since Mario 3.

[link2Dpast]

i never good grasp why Klonoa never caught on and became bigger. He fits the bill as a cool mascot, other than his name being confusing to spell, the games were great

[Venoxn4g]

at least it got Wii remake, which sad was overlooked as well, but great..