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Re: Review: Tactics Ogre: Let Us Cling Together (SNES)

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I'm trying the Romancing Sagas I was so curious about, but I'll have to check this one out too! I somehow never bothered after hearing a couple of times how bad Ogre Battle sequels were. I remember listening a lot it's soundtrack on a SPC music player though. Hitoshi sakimoto always had a particular style.

The visuals really look ahead of their gen, so pretty! Although, I think Seiken Densetsu 3 (Secret of Mana 2) gets 1st place for sound quality-- It really stood out from the usual soft/mushy snes sound.

Re: Review: Majyuuou (SNES)

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@Kirk It has a more organic, stylish look, which I prefer. Nowaday it's mostly perfectly clean digital art. That poster is awesome.. makes me think of the movie Wicked City also.

Re: Soapbox: Why Websites Don’t Need to Give a Game a Review Score (and Probably Shouldn’t)

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Giving numbers to quality has always been stupid-- it's arbitrary, meaningless and unfair.

But no matter how 'in-depth' a review is, it's a single opinion, so something like metacritic is really nice.

But also.. if game developers are taking into consideration critics, it's idiotic. You cannot create something original and individual that will be universally accepted, the things that do are usually bland and simple.

Re: Lost Reavers

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The game was absolutely horrible and boring... but when you get to level 15 and play the bigger harder dungeons it gets realllllly fun.

Re: My Nintendo's Rewards Have Been Updated for May

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What is cheap of them is how they want to reward us for buying digital from them with crummy stuff. Oh sure, it's a 'gift' and some other companies don't give crap, but the fact is that in digital they don't ship stuff, pay storage, give a cut to retailers etc.... no, they make us pay the same price but... with a crummy gift.

Discounts are nice enough for silver points though.

Re: The Legend of Zelda Wii U Has Been Pushed Back to 2017, Will Release On NX As Well

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@Yorumi Yeah.. I was innocent enough to believe it could be.

Now the only thing they could do to to totally destroy my appreciation for Nin is that those pretty ZeldaU things we saw are really just Nx's. Wiiu being neglected over Nx and duller looking,
Everyone I know are getting bad vibs for that LoZ.. and I'm starting to believe it. Pretty much all N. wiiu games so far are underwhewing, rushed or bareboned..

Re: Nintendo of America Opens the Teaser Site for Metroid Prime: Federation Force

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@Kevlar44 It's incredible the hate that game had. Yes, they kinda destroyed my childhood hero, the writtings were super cheesy with japanese cheese and was a bit more obvious in it's linearity.. but the ambiance of that game, the gameplay, the esthetics, the elegance of Samus jumping around in 3d (finally!) was so perfectly nailed. I thought that only the fp-missile-thing and the overpowered dodging system needed revision, gameplay wise.

M:oM's gameplay recipe deserved another chance... just without the cheese.