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Re: Best Star Fox Games Of All Time

Kilroy

@John_Deacon Since I originally commented here almost a year ago (I'm back because someone tagged me), I did try out Starlink and ironically, the controls are what made me almost immediately put the game down. I don't recall how exactly they're set up, but you cannot change them and to my 38 year old brain, I can't adjust. I've played a few flight shooters like Ace Combat before and never had an issue, but something is different about Starlink that makes it feel really weird.

Vs Zero's motion controls that can be almost entirely shut down just by not moving your hands (in case anyone wanted to argue that I stopped playing a game due to controls)

Re: Best Nintendo Switch Music And Rhythm Games

Kilroy

Hextech Mayhem: A League of Legends Story

I feel this deserves some praise. Musical themes are rock and metal, it's a side scrolling auto runner platformer with a great soundtrack composed by Grant Henry (Metroid Metal fame).

Re: Nintendo Switch Is Closing In On One Billion Software Sales

Kilroy

@Barbiegurl777 "Uhh no. I defently did not deserve being cussed out over the phone asking for help how to fix a corroded profile slot for when the past 30+ years I've bought pretty much every game over here in the game stores."

One of us is misunderstanding here. When I said "Absolutely deserved", I meant the American company you were buying from deserved to lose you as a customer for how they treated you. You were not wrong in what you did, I agree with you there...

However, as for peeling off the Game Boy sticker, you WERE wrong there. 100%. Those stickers are intended to never come off naturally and stores in all kinds of businesses have to deal with theft every day, so those stickers serve as a deterrent to help prevent thieves from peeling them off and placing them on different devices.

They are not the same as removing tags or plastic wrap that's intended to be removed after purchase.

Re: Nintendo Switch Is Closing In On One Billion Software Sales

Kilroy

@Barbiegurl777 Absolutely deserved. As someone who works in retail, you do NOT piss off customers. You can tell them they're wrong, deny them service, anything that they don't want to hear reasonable people are willing to accept your answer unless you do it in a manner that makes them feel disrespected. That's when you learn of a consumer's ire.

Re: Talking Point: What Game Do You Replay Every Year?

Kilroy

Crash Team Racing: I'm cheating here a little bit because I play it more on Playstation (better performance, better controller (less hand cramps)). Still have yet to beat the harder half of the time trial ghosts and the gameplay just feels timeless.

A Robot Named Fight: Roguelite with Super Metroid, Castlevania, Isaac, Mega Man inspirations. There's so much content in it that it's tough for it to get old (and btw, NL's review is severely out of date and has errors even for the version they reviewed!)

SteamWorld Dig: The first game still has good pick up and play value. Nice for a quick mind cleanse from other games.

Since only three answers are allowed, I omitted BotW since it's a pretty obvious choice. For that, I've yet to find all the korok seeds like most people and the game is just overall relaxing.

Re: Bayonetta Origins: Cereza And The Lost Demon File Size Seemingly Revealed

Kilroy

@roboshort "And probably entered into other agreements with Sega in regard to the franchise."

Conjecture. Holds no weight in the argument here. It doesn't matter what rights Nintendo has over individual games, it matters that SEGA still owns the core rights to Bayonetta. Can you tell if SEGA has sold anything completely over to other companies or if they've merely contracted out to all the big name platforms like they've done for so many of their franchises since leaving the console space?

Re: Nintendo Unveils Fire Emblem Engage Expansion Pass

Kilroy

@Not_Soos BotW was different though. Yes, they announced the DLC when the base game released, but the DLC wasn't actually released for another 4 months (wave 1) and then again 5 months after that first DLC. That was plenty of time for Nintendo to develop the paid content. Meanwhile, they wanted to get the base game out for the system launch, which felt complete anyway.

But this day one BS for FE shouldn't be excused and people need to speak with their wallets.

Re: This Huge Star Fox Mod Adds New Levels, Ships, Weapons, And Even Multiplayer

Kilroy

@Kandowontu I've only played a handful of romhacks over the years, partially due to knowing that many of them are more geared towards (in the game's universe) unrealistic scenarios. What I'm looking for doesn't appear to be what you've made and that's fine, but to say it's amateur work and for free (I would hope it's for free, fan content piggybacking off of commercial IPs shouldn't be paid) is what I'd assume any fan made content is. Wanting content that actually looks like what the devs would make (see standout example AM2R or even a randomizer) instead of what-if scenarios like Mario and Luigi as enemies is okay and wanting that what-if scenario is fine too.

Saying it's about what could be done with the game now makes sense calling it an "Exploration" showcase. Anyway, good luck with it! Just voicing my opinion like everyone else is free to do.

Re: This Huge Star Fox Mod Adds New Levels, Ships, Weapons, And Even Multiplayer

Kilroy

The linked tweet showing the video of Mario and Luigi has a reply saying production values are amazing. How can the values be amazing when these people (person?) are butchering commercial assets and throwing them into a universe they don't belong in? The Star Wolf teaser re-uses SF64's lines and Star Wolf seems to just park themselves in front of Fox as if 4v1 is balanced or natural. Just seems highly unprofessional, uncreative and unpolished.

I'll just wait for Ex-Zodiac (a real Star Fox inspired game on Steam with its own assets) to release more content, thanks.

Re: Nintendo Download: 27th October (North America)

Kilroy

@MontyCircus I'm not because I've never played the series before and there are tons of games to play at any given moment. All I keep hearing is it's a niche series that's been brought to the mainstream's attention thanks to Taylor. It's also a $60 game, tons of folks are on budgets. Lastly and probably mostly importantly, not everyone participates in the poll, lol.

Re: Mario + Rabbids Sparks Of Hope Update Available, Here Are The Patch Notes

Kilroy

@Geit_de 100% this. AAA are the most guilty, usually sending day one patches for bugs they find between the time the game goes gold and actual release.

Another terrible tactic of companies is to release games marketed as betas, yet still charge $60. Meanwhile, gamers buy into that, but still complain because the game they just paid $60 for is broken, lol. What did these people expect? Wait a month or three so there are less bugs and possibly a cheaper price.

Plenty of games out there to play, not just whatever released today.

Re: The Metroid Dread Vibes Are Strong In Action-RPG Platformer 'Trinity Fusion'

Kilroy

@FNL I've seen several articles over time (speaking in general) where the exact same wording is used on every site to publish the same news, NintendoLife included in this. That's just how the media is; once news gets out to the mainstream that it's deemed important enough to publish, news sites/TV stations/whatever will all run with the same source material and many of them won't deviate from it (i.e. copy and paste). Have you ever watched comedy shows or podcasts that play video/audio of 5, 10, 15+ different news sources all using the exact same verbiage? It's not a coincidence.

So, it's only natural that you'll see gaming news sites besides NL that will compare this with Dread. Doesn't mean it's correct.

Re: The Metroid Dread Vibes Are Strong In Action-RPG Platformer 'Trinity Fusion'

Kilroy

This looks almost nothing like Dread, doesn't seem to be any enemies that resemble the EMMI (other than the fact robots are in this and the EMMI are robots...), I saw only one ability that is similar to Samus's (Flash Shift, but news flash, that's not a new move for platformers), plot sounds NOTHING like Dread's and the protagonist's skill kit is different than Samus's by miles.

I've played Dread for 150+ hours. This game has almost no similarities, don't feed into the groupthink.

Was this clickbait or a genuine difference in opinion? Either way, the game looks good, so whatever I guess.

Re: Review: Circus Electrique - Repetitive Turn-Based Battling In A Gripping Steampunk London

Kilroy

"All text on screen is so small its almost impossible to read"

The reviewer might want to get a better TV or monitor (or better eyes). Almost all the text (minus thumbnails which are reasonably small because they're thumbnail) is perfectly legible to me, even before clicking on the pics to view them full size, which isn't even the full size of my 27" monitor where I play Switch docked, most text was legible.

Zen Studios' non-pinball games were never that interesting to me, but I'm not exactly the demographic for any of them, either.

Re: Video: Shovel Knight Dig Switch Gameplay Footage, Direct From PAX West 2022

Kilroy

Okay, watched the whole thing. The people saying this looks cheap and bad are nuts, they also might want to consider that this is a spinoff and not a true sequel to Treasure Trove (i.e. Shovel Knight 2). They never said Dig is SK2 and the screenshots provided months ago were perfect for reflecting what I imagined the gameplay would (which I like), so I don't know what all these negative commenters were expecting.

Re: Treasure's "Highly Requested" Title Has Been Leaked

Kilroy

(Sorry Oppyz666, didn't mean to tag you)

@BloodNinja "BloodNinjaYesterday, 10:02pm
@ Oppyz666 I mean, weapons are good, but the OST is garbage, and the game itself is an eye-sore."

game itself is an eye-sore
Could you explain then what this means if you're not referring to graphics? Also, you didn't answer the question about naming a good OST since you think RS's is garbage.