the apex of the need for speed franchise. it's a really bad game, but it's a really fun game; the customization is incredible, the soundtrack (barring the one song by that child rapist) is exquisite, and the handling. GOD the handling. every car feels featherlight, in the absolute best way possible. races have this energy to them that isn't felt anywhere else, and i love it so much. the rubberbanding never bothered me. the little bits of story that are there are really endearing. the game kept spinning me out for no reason in the latter half of it but i never cared because i was having so much fun. peak NFS, most wanted can go suck on my nutsack

the best of the (so far) 3 splatoon games, and by extension probably my favourite shooter ever made. i was a fan of sp1 but since this was the first splatoon i played thanks to it being the first switch game i ever owned, this was the game that properly introduced me to the world of splatoon, a world which feels like the backdrop to my own psyche at this point. the systems behind the multiplayer are flawed, but when the game actually fucking works it feels phenomenal. there really hasn't been any multiplayer shooter that has felt better before or after this game's release. the visual style that the game provides is also my favourite of the 3 games; it expands on splatoon 1's aesthetics in every way imaginable, and totally rocks the shit out of anything that splatoon 3 can muster thanks to that game's stupid chaos theme and the fact that sp3's ui is minimalistic in the most fucking boring way imaginable. it has the best backing tracks of any of the 3 games, with the best bands both in terms of sound and just the characters that comprise said bands, which helps to add to the world. the hero mode is nothing special, but i like it more than sp3's because atleast in this one i get to have a P90 that shoots so much ink that the shots unify and basically become an instant death laser. all of this, plus other aspects that i haven't bothered to delve into, alongside Octo Expansion, which is tied for my favourite videogame ever propels this game to peak kino status. as a whole it's honestly probably the best first party game nintendo has ever made

i don't know man, this just didn't do it for me like i hoped it would. i wish the story was more present. what's there is great, and helped me develop my fanfiction a lot, but it just leaves me wanting more. yes the game is challenging, but unlike Octo Expansion where the challenge feels fair in the best way possible, the higher floors of this game just feel like the devs are throwing absolutely fucking everything they can at you without caring about balance or how fun the challenge presented by the overwhelming hordes actually is. i hate that i can't like this expansion like i wish i could mainly for the visuals, though. this is seriously one of the most beautiful games i've ever played in an artistic sense. it's a glimpse into what splatoon 3 could have been if chaos hadn't won and turned everything into a grimy and uninteresting mess; i live in a third world country, if i wanted to look at a shithole of a city i'd go outside

incredibly solid game. the fact that a story this complex and nuanced can be told on the PS1 of all systems is a testament to how massively ahead of its time this game always was.
the game itself hasn't aged all that gracefully as a whole though. it's a fun time, and a really solid foundation that MGS2 would build upon, but this was the one MGS game where i started playing it to experience the story and didn't gain an appreciation for the gameplay later on. still a very good game nonetheless, and definitely worth revisiting.

fuck the twin snakes btw