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probably at least 20 of my top 25 maybe even all of it

i haven't really got a clue what would comprise my top 25 though

i guess i can say what games by genre i know i like that don't get much talk

for fighting...
any ps2 ultimate ninja game and ultimate ninja heroes 2 on psp (i think there was a bit of an audience that liked ultimate ninja 3 specifically but otherwise not really anywhere near the reception i felt they deserved)
also the fatal fury games it's a shame basically nothing did plane switching since them besides classic ultimate ninja and people only really talk about the one game that didn't do it (even if it's also good)
super dragon ball z on ps2 (on merit of being the first and possibly still only 3d anime fighting game i can say i respect mechanically (also it's just got an especially strong arcade feel that somehow just outdoes most actual arcade games))
actually i take that back i also like neo aquarium's more niche systems i guess lol
umineko golden fantasia (and its prior iterations)
touhou 14.5 and 15.5 i know people really aren't kind towards 13.5 and onward but they were really fun and satisfying to play
acceleration of suguri games and really most shmup/fighting hybrids in general (the fangame acceleration of patchouli is a mess but also my favourite because of how well everyone plays in it (they're all broken lmao))
also recently stuff like wanba warriors though maybe i shouldn't say that since it sold way better than i thought... (100k copies on steam or so)

for shmups well
[insert any doujin shmup outside of touhou here (i'm largely biased towards vertical scrolling ones)]
in particular all of orange juice's shmups all reflect a lot of originality and creativity with clear identities
murasaki also does and is wild for an optionally freeware game
(also competitive shmups eg twinkle star sprites and again the shmup fighters)

i'm not great at them but i do enjoy getting absorbed into rtses so...
grimgrimoire ;_;
i know it didn't really do that badly but i wish rise of nations got more acknowledgment in relation to age of empires and stuff since to me it's just the best

i guess by definition most ds adventure games like ace attorney and all are sleeper hits but i'm not going to count any of that (hotel dusk maybe?) or 07th expansion vns either
that said, the narcissu series is cursed to always have mixed reception yet i adore it

ace combat games incl. sky crawlers (i know i shouldn't like it but)
armored core games (i need to try more of them...)

oh yeah, also solatorobo

and maybe fragile dreams too (ok probably wouldn't have it anywhere near my top 25 but i love it)

also some misc others i like would include rabi ribi (maybe more just raw indie rather than sleeper mind you, it did better than i thought it would on release but on the other hand i still wish it achieved more critically) and the super hook girl series and umihara kawase (might have fresh somewhere near my top 25... well, maybe somewhere in the top 50 at least) and hagane orchestra (secret best gacha game) and dbz attack of the saiyans (actually i should've had a rpg section oops) and the one piece jrpgs on gbc and riviera (never really got around to the rest of dept heaven...). also i have illegal levels of nostalgia for bomberman kart and while it super doesn't count i wish gran turismo got more respect these days too. the heydays pre-forza were when it was untouchable for a reason... (i really hope 7 leans in hard on the more game-focused structure it had back then with its career mode because i need that). lastly i just remembered this... color-based anime game i've been playing recently called white girl (lay off on the title remarks thanks). it doesn't have a ton of depth but it's a pretty novel real time digital card game (4 player) with a decent amount of variety/flexibility. quite unlike anything else i know of and has been growing on me just a bit

in general really just too much stuff since i seem to almost exclusively play things that don't get big attention for some reason. probably forgot some other things that mean a lot to me too but oh well