The soundtrack kicks ass! Too bad just about everything else sucks. The story does set up some interesting ideas but it's hard to get invested when the game is clearly more interested in trying to be as shocking as possible. Throw in some totally unnecessary upskirts while you're at it, one of these being from a seven year old by the way. You also have to follow a specific path in order to progress otherwise you'll encounter one of the games many cheap deaths.
Pure shock value and not even the fun kind!

If you plan on playing this or any other game published by
Working Designs please do yourself a favor and check if there's an Un-Working Designs patch for said game you're looking for. Working Designs is notorious for increasing in game difficulty to a frustrating degree. Enemies do more damage, items cost more in shops, increased enemy stats, etc. With these patches the frustration and
tedium is mostly gone as they revert the difficulty back to the original Japanese releases. You still have to put up with their shitty ass scripts which added awkward sex jokes, slurs and
references, like Bill Clinton in Lunar and Bob Vila in Magic Knight Rayearth. Suffice to say I'm glad Working Designs is gone. #ripbozo #packwatch rest in piss

The actual game here is a fun little 2D Zelda like. Sprites are cute and the soundtrack goes kinda hard??? Platforming can be a bit awkward at times and maybe I'm just dumb but I found myself getting lost a few times. It also becomes a shmup for a bit at the end.

Over the years I've attempted to play Mario Sunshine a number of times and with every attempt I got further but ultimately I would end up dropping it due to not vibing with the controls. I don't think the Fludd was a good replacement for the long jump or the crouch jump. The freedom of doing any level whenever the player feels like is totally gone instead forcing you go through the first seven shines in each level no matter how monotonous or just downright terrible they are. Aesthetically the game is nice and to be fair the first few levels were fine. The frustration didn't set in until the second half of the game with the last three levels. Also is it just me or is the camera worse here than in Mario 64?

An actually decent licensed title. Like most NES games it doesn't tell you what to do at all. You're just supposed to know that one of the three houses you first come across is enterable. Which house is enterable is random every playthrough. Enemy placement can be annoying, and the bones of Freddy scattered throughout the levels can blend into the environment but even then I never felt overly frustrated. The game is very forgiving about giving you continues and immediately spawning you close to where you died. The soundtrack is also surprisingly great! The boss rush at the end is pretty brutal though.

I would like to start out by stating that I would have played Prepare to Die Edition on PC, but there's no easy way for me to obtain it legally and key sellers have it at absurd prices. I get that this version uses a new lighting engine that makes everything too bright, but it's not the worst change. It's not completely butchered like in Bluepoint's Demon's Souls "remake". The actual game is fantastic. Finely tunes some of what Demon's Souls established and removes some mechanics entirely like the grass system with the estus flask which allows game flow to go on uninterrupted. The need to grind for grass is completely gone. The areas after Anor Londo do kinda stink, but the bosses save them from being terrible with the exception of Lost Izalith and Bed of Chaos.