• LIVE A gaming event as part of The Bell Tree World Championship 2024 is currently being livestreamed on TBT's Twitch channel here -- spectators who chat on Discord can earn points too!

Which fanchise of Nintendo's is your favorite?

I think everyone knows my answer... ANIMAL CROSSING! My favorite Nintendo franchise by a LONG shot but I am a huge Nintendo stan so obviously I love alot more than just AC. Pikmin, Splatoon, and Mario are my other faves respectively!
 
Aside from Animal Crossing it would be a tie between Pikmin and Pokemon
 
This is a challenging question. I do play games but i'm not a huge gamer. When I'm not playing Animal Crossing it's likely that I'm not playing Nintendo at all. I have weird reasons for playing video games. I have 100's of hours invested into sports games because I like making my own custom characters with the creation suites.

I'm a big dragon quest fan and it's my all time favorite franchise. Although that's departed from strictly being a Nintendo series. I play Pokemon too when the games release, but I'm not a seriously invested player and only do it for the story.
 
My top 5

1. Pokémon
2. Animal Crossing
3. Legend of Zelda
4. Paper Mario
5. Mario (in general)

I separate Paper Mario from regular Mario because it feels more different to me and I specifically like it more than other Mario games.
 
Animal Crossing and Pokemon were my favorites, but I’m more of a Pokemon fan from Red Blue Yellow to Diamond pearl Platinum days than of what it became today, so I’m a bit less of a fan now of Pokemon and since I don’t have plans atm to try any of the newer games, I don’t think I can call it my favorite series. Animal Crossing was mine as well but the ones I put a lot of hours in were NL, Happy Home Designer and NH. Even though NH disappointed me, I would like to think it is my favorite series still.

I’m getting Splatoon 3 soon so maybe that will end up being my favorite, though I haven’t played the other two (only a little bit of 1 at a friend’s house) so i don’t know if that would count since it is only one game that I had really played not the whole series 🤔.

Edit: Almost forgot about Fire Emblem 🤦‍♀️. I’ve played Awakening, Fates, Three Houses (and Three Hopes). this would definitely be my favorite even though I haven’t played all of the games and Three Houses is the one that left the biggest impression on me and that I was the most satisfied with. I also played a little of the first Fire Emblem at a friend’s house .
 
Last edited:
Untitled169_20240411104947.png

i think this is an appropriate way to explain it
 
I know I posted here before, but to make a definitive ranking of my favorites:

1. Mario
2. Kirby
3. Animal Crossing
4. Pokémon
5. Super Smash Bros
6. The Legend of Zelda

Oh, and if you wanted to count Yoshi as a series, that would be number 7
 
This is such a tough question for me! I've never really viewed their games by franchise and always held them to an individual basis.

Is it weird to say that one of my favorites is the sports/fit franchise? I've loved exploring Wuhu Island and love the social aspect or these games. Wii Fit's use of the Miiverse was one of the warmest and supportive places I've been online.

Another big one for me is Smash Bros. It brought friends together across every iteration for me. Heck, one of my friends who does not play video games would come over to play smash bros. Ultimate with me in teams online matches and have the time of their life.

Animal Crossing as well is an obvious choice as it brings people together as a community and has been with me since 2002!

In the end, I love games that are social, cooperative and competitive so you can see why it lines up the way it does.
 
- animal crossing
- kirby
- pokemon
- mario
- nintendogs + cats
- their wii/mii stuff
 
animal crossing's my favourite franchise. mario and nintendogs + cats are tied for second. pikmin's third
 
It's gotta be Super Mario and it's not even close. More notably, I love Mario Kart and Mario Party. I'm more interested in the spin-offs, it seems, but I could say that about other series, as well. For example, I love Pokémon Mystery Dungeon just as much as the mainline games.
 
Pokemon is probably my favorite since it’s been one of my special interests for over half my life. The newer games have mostly disappointed me, but my many fond memories playing the older games will always make me like it.
 
Now that I’ve been playing Splatoon for awhile and that I’m also back to playing ACNH, I can revisit this question.

I think story wise, Fire Emblem might get my vote, at least Three Houses would. I’ve only played completely Awakening, Fates and Three Houses. Three Houses’ story was the best and most solid of the three in my opinion. I haven’t played many other story driven Nintendo games/series.

Gameplay wise regardless of genre, it’d be a close one between Splatoon, Animal Crossing, maybe Fire Emblem & Pokemon too at least judging by the ones I’ve played. New Horizons still disappoints me in so many ways, but even with the disappointments no matter how big or small, I think it still is a good game and very solid series. It’s harder for me to say for Pokemon since the last game I played was X & I didn’t care for that one. The ones that came after didn’t appeal to me I think partially due to the departure from the 2D graphics. I think the reason I never played them was because I was either not playing any games at the time or was interested in something else. I may have still given them a chance regardless of the change in graphics if I wasn’t busy with something else. Splatoon I haven’t played much of the second one yet since I’ve been mostly playing Splatoon 3; still haven’t completed the story for either. Regardless of that, I really love the game. I just wish salmon run was easier and if players rage quit or dc, the other players aren’t punished so badly as they are now.
 
Last edited:
  • Like
Reactions: Neb
Pokemon, even though I am not thrilled with how Pokemon is now.
Nintendo has made a very large impression in the video game world. It is easy to pick a Nintendo franchise as a favorite for that very reason alone.
 
Back
Top