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Re: Metroid Prime 4: Beyond Difficulty Settings Revealed By Nintendo

FlyingDunsparce

I just want to say I love unlockable difficulties. Prime games have always had this and it gives you a reward for beating the game that also invites replayability. If all the difficulties are unlocked from the start it feels less special to play hard mode and it takes away that reward for beating the game. Besides, Metroid games are literally designed to be played multiple times so if that's a complaint this might not be the right franchise for you.

Re: NieR:Automata Finally Lands Switch 2 Compatibility Update

FlyingDunsparce

LET'S GOOO FINALLY! I literally checked last night when the update went live and it still said it was unsupported and was so disappointed. But they were just late to update the website thankfully. Now I can finally continue my playthough that I started years ago and stopped for some reason.

Re: Round Up: The Reviews Are In For Super Mario Galaxy + Super Mario Galaxy 2 On Switch

FlyingDunsparce

Price should never be a factor in a review. You don't know how much someone paid for the product, they could've gotten it for free as a gift in which case it's completely irrelevant.

That being said it's difficult reviewing two 10/10 games if you try to factor in people who've played them before and expect new content, with the price possibly factoring into that setting expectations. But ultimately it's up to each person to decide for themselves whether they deem the product worth the price, with the review outlining the product.

Re: Review: Bubsy In: The Purrfect Collection (Switch) - Limited Run Cleans Out The Kitty Litter

FlyingDunsparce

@AussieMcBucket @Daniel36 I get what you're saying and obviously the games are what it's all about. But when it comes to a collection like this the games will all already have individual reviews you can look up. At that point just apply the score of the highest reviewed game to the collection as that's the best it will get with everything else being a bonus. Obviously barring any emulation/performance issues. In that case the score makes sense.

The reason I said the score was unfair is because I don't think it gives justice to the competency of the collection itself. A 4 is a failing grade which means the collection should've been better than it was. So let's ask three questions:

  • Does it include all the original Bubsy games?
  • Do all the games run properly?
  • Does it include any QOL features and bonus content?

I'm pretty sure all of these question can be answered with YES. So then I wonder what else this collection should've done to earn a passing grade?

It's difficult in this case because you obviously don't want to give people the impression that these are good games. The 4 is a good way to make sure people know that. But it doesn't give the developers any feedback on what they could've done better other than that they shouldn't have made this collection to begin with.

Re: Review: Bubsy In: The Purrfect Collection (Switch) - Limited Run Cleans Out The Kitty Litter

FlyingDunsparce

I feel like the score is kind of unfair. It sounds like the collection itself is great, just the games in it aren't. Which then begs the question of what is actually being reviewed.

I have no stake in this since I've never actually played any of these games and I've heard they're very bad so I guess the score is justified in that sense. But that would also mean there's no way the score could ever be any higher than this no matter what they do.

Either way I appreciate games being preserved even if they're bad.

Re: Opinion: Honestly, I'm So Glad We Had To Wait For Donkey Kong Bananza

FlyingDunsparce

As much as I'm very excited for DK Bananza, I won't be getting it at launch. I'm most likely still going to pick it up sometime this summer but I don't feel like I'm ready yet to jump into a brand new game. I'm also waiting for some kind of Direct to tell us how the rest of the year is going to look.

The three games I'm almost guaranteed to pick up this year though are:

  • DK Bananza
  • Pokemon Legends Z-A
  • Metroid Prime 4

Re: Talking Point: With Bigger GameCube File Sizes, Should Nintendo Let Us Download Individual NSO Games?

FlyingDunsparce

The real problem is that they have both the European and NA versions in the app. Meaning that every game they add actually gets added twice. For the other consoles this wasn't really an issue since the file sizes were small anyway, but for GameCube this adds up fast.

They should simply add only PAL versions to Europe and only NTSC versions to NA. With the exception of region exclusives like Doshin the Giant where NA should get the PAL version and vice versa.

People who want to play versions from the other regions can just change their account to those regions and download those versions of the NSO apps.

Re: Best Yoshi Games Of All Time

FlyingDunsparce

The only games here I've played so far are Yoshi and the original Yoshi's Island. I've gotta say, I really didn't like Yoshi's Island. Probably one of the worst Nintendo games I've played. Conceptually it should be a good game but for some reason I just didn't have fun.