Nosk
2023
Blasphemous art continues to go hard as hell.
It took me nine months, and only through the grace of the fast-forward button did I finish this game.
This wasn't a bad game, the mechanics all functioned great and overall it felt fully realised, as to be expected from a Zelda game.
But the bright, plastic art style, annoying mechanics, underwhelming dungeons and Mario references were slowly driving me insane.
In the end I'd probably recommend playing the original, or picking up Tunic, which is half the price and much more fun.
But the bright, plastic art style, annoying mechanics, underwhelming dungeons and Mario references were slowly driving me insane.
In the end I'd probably recommend playing the original, or picking up Tunic, which is half the price and much more fun.
2002
A game that I really loved as a kid... and did again this time around, for about the first half.
This games strengths for me mostly lay in its exploration and beautiful setting. Also, to the credit of its level design, I never got lost or needed to buy maps (this did make the bartering & money system somewhat pointless).
However the game becomes repetitive - boring combat, backtracking (especially between Thorntail Hollow and Cape Claw, which you have to visit a number of times, meaning traveling through a maze and up and down ladders over and over), flying, button mashing mini-games and bosses, the same environmental hazards everywhere (I eventually just started walking through flaming barriers rather than waiting for them to stop)...
The backtracking in particular was a shame. I didn't mind revisiting areas exactly, and I like that you had to walk back to areas rather then warping (which tends to ruin the feeling of inhabiting and exploring a world), but in some sections it would have been nice to have been able to create shortcuts once you had traversed them the first time.
The plot too fizzles out strangely at the games climax. Nothing much comes of General Scales or Crystal, and it was unsurprising to find out that this game was originally conceived as its own entity, and Star Fox was later welded into it.
Ultimately, Star Fox Adventures is fun to run around in and play for the most part, and still looks beautiful all these years later.
But man, I wish I had played this with a turbo controller instead.
This games strengths for me mostly lay in its exploration and beautiful setting. Also, to the credit of its level design, I never got lost or needed to buy maps (this did make the bartering & money system somewhat pointless).
However the game becomes repetitive - boring combat, backtracking (especially between Thorntail Hollow and Cape Claw, which you have to visit a number of times, meaning traveling through a maze and up and down ladders over and over), flying, button mashing mini-games and bosses, the same environmental hazards everywhere (I eventually just started walking through flaming barriers rather than waiting for them to stop)...
The backtracking in particular was a shame. I didn't mind revisiting areas exactly, and I like that you had to walk back to areas rather then warping (which tends to ruin the feeling of inhabiting and exploring a world), but in some sections it would have been nice to have been able to create shortcuts once you had traversed them the first time.
The plot too fizzles out strangely at the games climax. Nothing much comes of General Scales or Crystal, and it was unsurprising to find out that this game was originally conceived as its own entity, and Star Fox was later welded into it.
Ultimately, Star Fox Adventures is fun to run around in and play for the most part, and still looks beautiful all these years later.
But man, I wish I had played this with a turbo controller instead.