@HenHiro I'm with you, the New Super Mario Bros games have been a cancer to the series... we could have gotten beautiful 2D Mario games with original concepts, instead we get this really bland and repetitive AF series. I specifically hate the music for these games, with graphics second place. If at least these 2 things would have been good, I probably would have loved these games.
Super Mario 3D Land and 3D World were a loooooot better. Actual good graphics, good music, and original interesting concepts. Why is this article even written? This should have been about 3D Land instead. ***** New SMB, I hope they never make another one ever again.
I never even touched any of these games as a kid, my first time playing the first FF Legend was 5 years ago, and I loved it. Although my first experience with a SaGa game was SaGa Frontier on PS1, I was also not a kid anymore when I played it lol, I didn't finish it because when I found out that these were the first games, I wanted to play in order starting here. I had been eager to try FF Legend 2 but kept saving it for later until this collection came out and put me in the mood again. I am not disappointed in the least! I already finished it, and started the third game.
I'm really impressed with the little stories, little as they may be, are quite effective to me. They are not complex, yet the sense of fantasy and magic feels so strong... I never feel that with games like FF7, FF8, FF9... I don't know what happened to Final Fantasy starting with FF7, but the games got pretty uninteresting, and starting with FF8, the entire rest of the series has been a cringe with really bad and awkward characters. Final Fantasy forgot its roots, and it feels as if SaGa's roots are more connected to it than FF.
The gameplay though, I understand. Everyone wants things to be really easy and smooth. However, this is not such a good mindset. When you think about it, a lot of modern games have become so easy and boring thanks to that. Every time there's a remake of a game, the difficulty gets watered down to please new people. That's how FF1 became a joke for PSP. Back on the NES, FF1 was a real challenge, and it was really exciting that way. I want my resources to be tight so I have to make critical decisions. Some things could still be better, like an unnecessarily painful dungeon from FF Legend 2, which the game itself calls Mean and Nasty. In that dungeon alone, all of the game's flaws are exposed, like running into a battle and having all the enemies hit you first because you have no idea how to raise your agility, or being unable to run and having to sit through another round of attacks. Be warned, but at least all 3 games let you save anywhere.
Other than that, the fast forward feature is surprisingly well implemented. It's not super fast to cheapen the game, and it does not affect the music speed. They really thought it through!
Now for the bad points about this collection, the pixel scaling will be bad unless played on at least a 1080p screen. That's what this collection was designed for apparently. In Handheld mode, the pixels will be scaled unevenly, and you will notice for example the characters eyes changing width as they walk. It feels cheap. They should have used at least a very slight amount of filtering to hide that, or give you proper scaling options depending on if you're on Handheld or docked.
The other thing is the lack of art and materials from the originals. If at least the manual scans had been included, I'd forgive them, because the manuals hold important information!! Go look for them online as PDFs instead.
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Re: Talking Point: New Super Mario Bros. Is 15 Years Old, And It's Still Fantastic
@HenHiro I'm with you, the New Super Mario Bros games have been a cancer to the series... we could have gotten beautiful 2D Mario games with original concepts, instead we get this really bland and repetitive AF series. I specifically hate the music for these games, with graphics second place. If at least these 2 things would have been good, I probably would have loved these games.
Super Mario 3D Land and 3D World were a loooooot better.
Actual good graphics, good music, and original interesting concepts. Why is this article even written? This should have been about 3D Land instead. ***** New SMB, I hope they never make another one ever again.
Re: Review: Collection of SaGa Final Fantasy Legend - A Nostalgic Curiosity, But That's About It
I am loving these games!!!
I never even touched any of these games as a kid, my first time playing the first FF Legend was 5 years ago, and I loved it. Although my first experience with a SaGa game was SaGa Frontier on PS1, I was also not a kid anymore when I played it lol, I didn't finish it because when I found out that these were the first games, I wanted to play in order starting here. I had been eager to try FF Legend 2 but kept saving it for later until this collection came out and put me in the mood again. I am not disappointed in the least! I already finished it, and started the third game.
I'm really impressed with the little stories, little as they may be, are quite effective to me. They are not complex, yet the sense of fantasy and magic feels so strong... I never feel that with games like FF7, FF8, FF9... I don't know what happened to Final Fantasy starting with FF7, but the games got pretty uninteresting, and starting with FF8, the entire rest of the series has been a cringe with really bad and awkward characters. Final Fantasy forgot its roots, and it feels as if SaGa's roots are more connected to it than FF.
The gameplay though, I understand. Everyone wants things to be really easy and smooth. However, this is not such a good mindset. When you think about it, a lot of modern games have become so easy and boring thanks to that. Every time there's a remake of a game, the difficulty gets watered down to please new people. That's how FF1 became a joke for PSP. Back on the NES, FF1 was a real challenge, and it was really exciting that way. I want my resources to be tight so I have to make critical decisions. Some things could still be better, like an unnecessarily painful dungeon from FF Legend 2, which the game itself calls Mean and Nasty. In that dungeon alone, all of the game's flaws are exposed, like running into a battle and having all the enemies hit you first because you have no idea how to raise your agility, or being unable to run and having to sit through another round of attacks. Be warned, but at least all 3 games let you save anywhere.
Other than that, the fast forward feature is surprisingly well implemented. It's not super fast to cheapen the game, and it does not affect the music speed. They really thought it through!
Now for the bad points about this collection, the pixel scaling will be bad unless played on at least a 1080p screen. That's what this collection was designed for apparently. In Handheld mode, the pixels will be scaled unevenly, and you will notice for example the characters eyes changing width as they walk. It feels cheap. They should have used at least a very slight amount of filtering to hide that, or give you proper scaling options depending on if you're on Handheld or docked.
The other thing is the lack of art and materials from the originals. If at least the manual scans had been included, I'd forgive them, because the manuals hold important information!! Go look for them online as PDFs instead.