DBeyer2003
2005
"Looks like my summer vacation is...over."
The hand-me-down pajamas of Smash Bros games.
The only Star Wars media that you need. (Wait, I forgot about the Cartoon Saloon short! Watch that if you haven't.)
D K. 3D. KONG.
One of the worst-running ports that I've ever played. You'll be grateful for the moments where the game crawls its way up to 20fps.
Mario.
Link is constantly getting sat on by Midna's fat tush, which probably awakened something in a lot of kids. Also, waggle controls were a mistake, and I'm switching to the Gamecube/HD version the next time I play this.
The studs are possibly the greatest video game collectible of all time. No matter which property you insert it into, it will make the game compulsively playable.
2007
The ending twist is peak fiction.
Slapping ugly bloom shaders on a timeless cell-shaded aesthetic? No thank you! Switched to the original Gamecube version after five hours.
This slaps. And it is the studdiest game that ever studded. Studs spray out of LEGO objects like blood spraying from an Evangelion. (Okay, that line is awful, and I hope nobody else reads it.) Giant battles rain studs from every direction. It makes you feel like Scrooge McDuck swimming through his mountains of gold.
The ceiling on what the DS ports could be; and even now, there isn't much reason to revisit it, given how the novelty of the touch control minigames has evaporated over time.
Now this is more like it. The leap in visual quality is staggering; whereas the main game's aesthetic fell into an uncertain middle ground between Wind Waker's cell-shading and Mario Sunshine's bold oversaturation, Nyakuza Metro plunges the player into a city filled with bold neon lighting and streets filled with grime and dark puddles. Given extra time and money to polish up a single DLC location, Nyakuza Metro has a presence and tactility that is largely missing from the main game. And for once, there is barely a weak link in the character animation. The Empress is the obvious standout, but even characters like Hat Girl have more visible polish than usual.
Gameplay wise, the DLC is a step up from Seal the Deal, with the former's world being far more expansive and clear in its exploration than Seal's confusing maze of a level. It also allows for more acrobatics; you can jump on and off trains like a daredevil, and it's one of the highlights of the entire game. There is a variety to the sections of the city that keeps the DLC interesting, and just when it seems that things will become too repetitive, the DLC ends on a corker of a final chase.
Also, Punk Hat Girl is #Goals.
Gameplay wise, the DLC is a step up from Seal the Deal, with the former's world being far more expansive and clear in its exploration than Seal's confusing maze of a level. It also allows for more acrobatics; you can jump on and off trains like a daredevil, and it's one of the highlights of the entire game. There is a variety to the sections of the city that keeps the DLC interesting, and just when it seems that things will become too repetitive, the DLC ends on a corker of a final chase.
Also, Punk Hat Girl is #Goals.
A vision of what the MCU could be like if it were wonderful.
Loses half a star for putting a gold brick so far away from the main city that it doesn't even show up on the map. Like come on, did nobody catch that in the testing stage?
Loses half a star for putting a gold brick so far away from the main city that it doesn't even show up on the map. Like come on, did nobody catch that in the testing stage?
2003
"We'll hunt them down like the common kitten."