Lilcaucasian
2019
For as much as the Sinnoh remakes would prove to be the worst in the series, these games were the first mainline Pokemon games that could genuinely be called bad games. They're so lazily put together that it's genuinely astonishing that Nintendo didn't step in to prevent Game Freak from releasing these earlier. There's minimal side content, not all of the Pokemon are present, and in general it has less visual detail than games released on the DS. The only new mechanic that was tried in this game (The Wild Area) didn't pan out at all. Overall, it's a poor imitation of the games that came before.
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1986
Metroid, while being an incredibly important and influential game, has some very crippling problems that generally make it not very fun to play today. The game has the high difficulty of many of the games of its time, which would normally be fine, but most games prior to the N64/PS1 generation were more keen on throwing unsolvable puzzles or unfair enemy combinations at players. This makes the game feel cheap, and thus none of the accomplishments really feel earned. Thank god for the lack of a lives system. The ability to only carry 1 weapon also hurts this game, as the Ice Beam is borderline necessary to beat the game but doesn't kill enemies quickly enough to be satisfying. Overall, it can be fun at times but has a lot of problems that make this game ultimately skippable. Very important to video game history, borderline unplayable today without savestates.
1988
Altered Beast is an interesting game. It was pretty controversial around when it was launched, mostly due to people saying that the game wasn't great and had a lot of issues. Hindsight has mostly proven them right. This game can be fun at times, but has a lot of tedium in most of its gameplay. It's fine visually, and a great technical showcase, but not a good enough game in its own right.
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