Assault Suit Leynos 2 is tough to recommend wholeheartedly, but the good parts of it are really cool.

Easier to recommmend:
Die Hard Arcade
Legend of Oasis
Saturn Bomberman
NiGHTS (and Christmas NiGHTS)
Fighters Megamix
Panzer Dragoon Zwei
Darius Gaiden

I rewatched the first episode of Video World yesterday, and it's still great

Demon's Crest

Everyone's still asking, "where's Invisible, Inc. 2?"

I think it's about an alternate history where there were mechs in WW2, because whenever I see the name Rule of Rose I think of Ring of Red

At least when you did that, nobody was paying you a subscription fee for it

Sorry, I don't usually correct people about what they say on a podcast, but this always bugs me. "Starting the game powered up and then losing your abilities" is specific to Metroid Prime. Other M kinda does it, and I haven't played Dread yet, but otherwise it only happens in Prime games

ZTD is the weakest of the three games and I love it, it's so dumb

Other fighting games simply aren't powerful enough to let you fight as a car

I was a little surprised you weren't thanked in the credits tbh

Dark Souls

9 Hours 9 Persons 9 Doors

"You can be killed too!"

Is that a warning or an advertisement?

I can definitely think of actual examples, but instead I'm going to assert that any game that says "Thank you for playing!" in the credits is doing that

This belongs in a Dragon Quest game

The upcoming new game is incorporating Zero Escape style puzzle rooms, but as a separate thing from the dream world stuff, so I could see that not changing your mind about it.

I would prefer something involving Zero Escape, but I don't think there's any possible name for that as perfect as Dan Jan Ronpa