This prologue scene in Treasure Planet where Jim while solar surfing, cuts the engine and plummets always floors me because of how accurately it treats the physics of a free fall.
The sheer sense of weight, speed, and genuine air resistance they managed to capture. The violent camera shake perfectly mimicking how you'd experience it in a real dive.
My father never accepted Yoshi's addition to the Mario series only ever referring to him as "The Serpent". "The Serpent is at best a tool not a character", he'd say. One Christmas I asked for Yoshi's Story and instead received a bible. "The Serpent's story is in there", he said