ArcticEcho

I was 9 when it came out, everyone aged 7-11 were obsessed with this game, and played it way more than the other big multiplayer games of the time. A big part of it is the checklist and city trial, the fact that vehicles were quirky and interesting to drive, and like Smash it had a lot of custom rules to screw with. Kirby Air Ride is a basically a mish-mash of Smash, Mario Kart, F-Zero, Mario Party, and Pilot Wings. The critics find it unfocused, the fans find it interesting.

@Browny My cousin said the same thing about Animal Crossing, and I think the same for Breath Of The Wild, and yet both are widely popular. Kirby Air Ride is my most played multiplayer game on Gamecube, far beyond Melee & Mario Kart. It was basically the only thing anyone I knew wanted to play. It might be a timing thing. What age were you when you played it? And what was everyone your age group playing? I'm not saying it's nostalgia based, just that it depends on whether you were with a crowd that made it an engaging game. Same with Mario Party. Mario Party can be super boring, but if you have a group that are all skilled at it, it can be cutthroat and intense on a whole other level.

@Ooyah I played Symphonia on PS3, a long time after it released and thought it was great. I played Zestiria when it came out and didn't like it. I'm kinda mixed on Hearts R, tbh. As for Vesperia, I liked it the most out of these. It's basically a mix of Symphonia and Hearts R, so maybe you'll like it. My favorite Tales are Graces F, Xillia, and Xillia 2 though.

@Dom_31 Air Ride probably requires an imagination to get full enjoyment out of since the game doesn't set goals for you, and just gives you a sandbox basically. You played it less than 2 hours, most people that love it have over 1,000 hours on it. It's not overrated, you just don't 'get it'. Like my cousin hated Animal Crossing with a flaming passion, saying how it's not even a game, and not understanding how anyone played it longer than an hour. And yet Animal Crossing fans have thousands of hours on it.

@Bret Just because YOU don't like Air Ride and Top Ride, doesn't mean 'nobody' does, or 'nobody' bothers to play it again after completing the checklist. I and many of my friends have beat the entire game like five times. The deal is all three game modes have their own niche, but City Trial is just one that resonates more broadly. Also Air Ride is basically also embedded within City Trial, since you can set that as a stadium event. The three game modes along with all their settings makes Kirby Air Ride, like Smash Bros., infinitely re-playable.

@EarthboundBenjy I don't like Zestiria, Berseria, or Arise, but love every single entry before them.

Tales Of Graces & Tales Of Xillia I+II. I need 'em so my PS3 can enter retirement.

The copy I had on GCN would always corrupt the data after the 1 year mark, so I never truly got to play it. That being said, I'm looking forward to it working.

@Expa0 It was never really a good series to begin with. There is something massively wrong with each installment. The only one I ever finished was the Gamecube one.

@NeonPizza What is "wall slamming"? Is this a euphemism for "bad driver"?

@Paraka The only two things Stardew Valley seems to be behind Harvest Moon 64 on, is having a house with multiple rooms, and the fact that it's 2D. I think Stardew is better in every other metric, but I find the whole Community Center thing too much of a bother, in what's essentially a self-paced game. It's far from my favorite farming game. Harvest Moon Magical Melody, Story Of Seasons Trio Of Towns, and Story Of Seasons Pioneers Of Olive Town are my most favorite.

Why is every knockoff Switch more than double the cost of the actual Switch? I'd consider buying one to try out if the prices weren't so ridiculous. If the Switch is so overpriced and underpowered, like everyone claims, where are the portable $250 PCs with twice the power of the Switch?

@Serpenterror Zelda isn't an RPG, none of them are, and Breath Of The Wild, even less so. It's just an adventure game, with puzzles, and survival elements. That was one of my issues with Breath Of The Wild, it was a game trying to be like Oblivion/Skyrim, but without any RPG elements.

I just want a new non-open world Zelda 2D or 3D.

@BenoitRen The vast majority of video games don't even have full voice acting, so reading basically has been and is the default.

@Nikhogan They're complaining like Mario has had thousands of lines of dialogue or something. The voice of Mario is about as fleshed out as the voice of Link. Chris Pratt sounds like an acceptable Mario to me. Mario doesn't need to be waa-hooing all over everything.

@FishyS You have to really like the gameplay of SRPGs to like Fire Emblem in my opinion. The stories usually get super boring, and because the games are designed around permanent death, character interactions are mostly down to the main characters that are not allowed to die. If you love the gameplay, it's great, if you're hoping there might be other elements to keep you interested, there usually aren't.

@Sisilly_G I feel like after Path Of Radiance and Radiant Dawn, Fire Emblem as a whole was just okay. Awakening showed up at a time when the 3DS library was struggling, and since it was pretty decent, lots of people got it. And then immediately there were the Fates games, Shadows of Valencia, and Three Houses. And this new one, just looks like more of the same. Three Houses is the only one of these I found somewhat compelling, the rest are all the same. The franchise is severely overrated.

I thought the game looked like trash the moment it was announced. This is the second Pokemon game I'm skipping, the first was US/UM, because I couldn't see why S/M needed another game. And no, I'm going to try it, the art direction is horrible, the graphics are horrible, I think someone said it doesn't have actual towns, and there is no scaling on the open-world gyms, which ruins the point of open-world Pokemon. I'd honestly rather have a ton of well designed branching routes than open plains. Overall just a lazy installment that should have been better than SW/SH, which is an extremely low bar.

@FatWormBlowsASparky The battles have been weak in all of the recent Fire Emblems though. The older ones used to be more nuanced, but Fire Emblem Awakening up to Three Houses, you just put your unit one tile into the red zone, and every enemy on the map rushes towards it. This is the only thing the AI does, it doesn't have initiative. It is almost entirely reactionary. The school thing at least gave me a Persona-like life-sim time-management aspect to spend time with between grinding maps.

@FatWormBlowsASparky The school thing was the only thing that made the new Fire Emblem stand out for me. They were at least giving us something new and engaging. Now we're just back to the Awakening, Conquest, Birthright line of the exact same game over and over again. I don't even know what people see in Fire Emblem anymore. The plots aren't even interesting like they were in the GCN/Wii/GBA era. I want Advance Wars, which is 10x better than Fire Emblem ever was.

@calbeau These aren't the assets for Advanced Wars though, this is original art.

My body is ready.

@GinMiguel Intent for the rating doesn't matter. The rating is whatever the rating board says the rating is. Or did you mean 'initially'?

@jrt87 Pokemon is a series where every entry fixes something wrong with the previous one, but then breaks something else, that results in no net improvement. The first five generation did more fixing than breaking, and the next five did more breaking than fixing. They implement something genius, like online trading and super training(basically an easy way to manage the more abstract stats), but then make the game hold your hand throughout the story. Then the next entry, throws out those improvements, keeps the game holding your hand throughout the story, but creates some killer new designs for some Pokemon, clothing, and characters. Thus every Pokemon game in reality is a 7/10. "It's great, they did(insert cool thing here), but... why did they get rid of(insert past good ideas here), and replace them with(insert new half-baked ideas here)."

@MajinSoul I hated Sword/Shield so much that I keep forgetting that Let's Go Pikachu/Eevee even existed. I thought they did such a good job on them, and really had the Pokemon aesthetic mastered, but then they delivered the absolute train wreck of Sword/Shield. The only thing I genuinely liked about Sword/Shield was the clothes, which is not even remotely related to the core of the game.

@Kirbyo Toree is a playable character, it might be the same devs.

@Silly_G I don't really like Sonic, only really liked the Adventure Series, and a bit of Sonic 2, but I loved the demo for this.

@BenAV I was playing the demo with my cousins last week, all big fans of this era of gaming, and we were really impressed with it, especially since it's $5. It controls really fluidly. The Switch version has 2 extra characters that aren't on the Steam version. The Steam version has a 20fps mode which is kinda neat.

GBA, GCN, and DS(with some kind of resistive touch peripheral to simulate the bottom screen, lol).

Kind of seems more like Sonic with how fast-paced it is. Anyway, we've been needing more platformers, and it looks fun.

No way Bayonetta worth $450 million dollars.

@Truegamer79 It has 1/8 the power draw and 1/8 the size of normal consoles. I love the Switch, and it is my only 8th/9th gen console, but it's denying reality to think it's not a portable system. People say it's the follow-up to the Wii U, but really it's the follow-up to the 3DS. And there's nothing wrong with that.

@Styrophoamicus A lot of guides for the older ones recommend you take one out one from the exterior, so it becomes 3-2-3 formation or just hollow out the entire middle row. Crops are sold pretty high, so you're not actually "losing money" by doing this.

@Burning_Spear Which part exactly strayed too far? I didn't think it was measurably different from Harvest Moon 64, the GCN, or the 3DS entries. The only real difference was that the farm was more seamlessly connected to the village in the older ones.

@Moviefan2k4 That's what ruined the Sonic movies for me, going for comedy instead of adventure.

@a1904 I just watched the 2nd Sonic movie today, this Mario movie trailer looks incredible by comparison. Both Sonic movies were beyond horrible.

@Nua Which is funny because Snake had basically no lines that game because of the expense of getting a "real actor". Metal Gear Solid 5 is my least favorite Metal Gear, I barely got halfway through it.

Not even a sick Giraffarig evolution will make me buy this.

@guilem I was so incredibly disappointed in that movie. I don't know what everyone else saw in it.

@nocdaes I still can't figure out what was so great about the Sonic movie, I thought Detective Pikachu was a hundred times better.

@RobynAlecksys You don't like Stadium and Battle Revolution... probably don't like Colloseum and XD because they're similar. You don't like either Snap or any of the Mystery Dungeon games. You probably don't like Hey You Pikachu, Pokemon Channel, and the Poke Parks because they're similar to Snap. You didn't even finish X/Y, which had the best features of any Pokemon game. You didn't play Sun/Moon or Ultra Sun/Moon, which are way more memorable than the latest games. And you're talking about Let's Go Pikachu, like it's actually worth $60. It doesn't sound like you're that into Pokemon.

@FishyS We already got the first generation remade twice. They should remake Heart Gold/Soul Silver, but mix it up, and have you start in Kanto and add the islands from Fire Red/Leaf Green, and maybe add another region west of Johto, so the bullet train can have 3 stops. 24 gyms would be sick. Also Pokemon should have some kind of canon map by now. Splatoon has a map, and it didn't even need one.

@VoidofLight You can't be on social media and not expect someone to spoil something, it's just how it is.

@VoidofLight I didn't watch his Xenoblade Chronicles 3 video, because my backlog is too big for me to even show interest in the game. However his Xenoblade Chronicles 2 video inspired me to go buy it immediately and I loved it. He even said in a different video, a critic's value isn't in holding the correct opinions, but being consistent. He is consistent. I didn't watch his video on Octopath Traveler, because I didn't want to see a negative opinion on it before I bought it. Well, I should have watched it, because I ended up hating that game. He bashed two different, highly loved RPGS, for different reasons. I agreed with points in both videos, ended up buying and loving one, hated and wished I hadn't bought the other.

@BloodNinja It looks exactly like Dread. The logo even has the same font and color scheme.

I'm still working on the Dusk Trilogy on PS3 and have only slightly dabbled in the Mysterious Trilogy. I won't even allow myself to buy any more Atelier games until I'm caught up.

A couple years ago I would have wanted them, but Nintendo took too long. I now have both on Wii U and both on Gamecube, and have a Wii and Wii U hooked up next to my Switch.

I played the demo last week. I loved the art/graphics and the over world. I'll likely be getting it.

@JoeSooper I can't tell, it just looks like every other low-poly game.