I love the 80s/90s Konami and Capcom licensed games for a lot of reasons - the genuinely solid gameplay, the accurate art and sound direction, the usually-mild (unless your name is "The Simpsons") yet wildly creative liberties taken with the source material, the connecting tissue between games of wildly different IPs (such as the Konami beat em up formula), the stories that have popped up years later about their development, their general historical value - but I think the main reason I love these games is because of the image of a team of Japanese game devs having to watch hours of Animaniacs episodes with American jokes for Americans they don't get because they're not American - both because that's a funny Coraline's-dad-at-computer image, but also because they still knocked it out of the park near-consistently anyway. (also the Eastern perception of Western IPs is just generally something that fascinates me, but that doesn't fit as smoothly into the sentence structure I started.)