People have loved gladiatorial combat since time immemorial.
I mean look at the popularity of Pokemon even to this day. It's basically baby's first Mandingo fight. Even kids can see the appeal of sending creatures enslaved to you to fight each other :>
Slice and Dice. Turn based RPG dungeon fighter where your party are all unique dice that you can modify with items and such. The interface is super slick and well done.
I've put in hundreds of hours and I'm going to likely be putting in hundreds more. Well worth the price!
The remakes are solid for sure but they're pretty different games that don't quite fully capture the spirit of open ended gameplay you could do in the originals.
For example:
Grenade relay involving 5 soldiers passing across the map until it lands at the foot of a Muton your out of actions scout ended his turn next to
Blow a hole in the roof of a landed UFO and drop your soldiers in behind aliens watching the doors expecting a conventional assault
Drive a tank into a single family home to dig out an alien hiding in a closet
100% agree. SMB3 on NES just had so much more stuff going on compared to SMW on the SNES. Mini games galore, secrets up the wazoo, and the muthafuckin' SHOE. For reals using that bad boy was like stepping into a goddamn Gundam.
Star Control 2
All challengers can GTFO 🧐