2018

A masterpiece... Weird, emotional, cute, fun, hypnotic... A must play for any japanese video game fan.

Some good ideas ahead of its time, but very confusing. Not really a fun game to grind without a guide.

The story and events are a huge step up coming from the first game though, very impressive for the time it was released.

It's not often that someone come and succeed to outplay Nintendo at one of their core series. But Konami did with this one.

Some think that the GBA/DS Igavania are even superior, but imo, Symphony of the Night is still the very best 2D Metroid-like game ever made. It's beautiful, somehow scary and intimidating, hypnotising, accessible... A masterpiece that everyone must play.

Soul is back on the menu for 2D Mario.

The game lost a lot of its soul because of the new artstyle (it does look good ! But it's not the same mood that the original game had), but all the glorious QOL features make up for it.

Only disappointment gameplay wise is the change to the tools, to make for a more traditional SOS experience when it comes to upgrading your tools. Makes a lot of friendship not so useful in this version, as you had to become friends with the villages to get better tools.

9 years later and still struggling to see any game coming close to its freedom and creativity of gameplay beyond Zelda BOTW and TOTK.

You can pretty much do anything in this game. You can make your horse shit on the road. Or ask your naked sniper girlfriend to shoot a grenade you just threw to make a ricochet. Or deliver a box of supply from the sky on the head of a boss to defeat it.

The only thing you can't do in this game is take a piss wherever you want (you are forced to use the toilets of your Mother Base...), but Kojima course corrected that in his next game Death Stranding. Truly a genius mind.

Giving so much content for 40€ is insane. Such a good deal, and a fucking great trilogy.

It never gets as immersing in its gameplay opportunities and creativity as a MGS5, but it's still super fun.

Oh, to buy your Nintendo Gamecube on release day with Pikmin again...

HAL showed us they can stand along Nintendo EPD when it comes to peak 3D platforming. Soul, soul, soul.

Life doesn't get any better than your first few weeks of playing this game back in the early 2000s.

Made us think "maybe we'll do alright after all" in a post 9/11 world.

Sometimes hella good, sometimes hella mid.

Cool story though, but gameplay wise it's the same as before but somehow less fun because of some weird changes.

Why the fuck did Nintendo stop making those ? Release Sakamoto from the Metroid jail and put him back on those asap.

Oh, to be a young adult in 2005, buying RE4 day one on the way home from work, and playing it all night... THE peak of the Y2K era...

That wasn't me though as back in 2005 I was 10 years old and was too busy playing Nintendogs.