TheYeti
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2010
As a Disney fan, I thought this game was pretty neat. Loved the style and the idea. Game itself was not great, though.
We can all agree that this is a bad name for a video game and was clearly conceptualized by a bunch of marketing executives, right?
We can all agree that this is a bad name for a video game and was clearly conceptualized by a bunch of marketing executives, right?
2013
A fun idea but it didn't really have any legs to it. I think a lot of folks, myself included, were riding that Castle Crashers high when this came out, so it's hard not to be disappointed that this comes nowhere close to the quality of that.
As both a massive fan of these movies and the Middle Earth universe in general, this game was a dream. This game has a lot of love for this universe and it's such a joy to play through. This is still one of my favorite LEGO games of all time.
This game is pretty cute and I genuinely had a fun time 100%ing it. Also the soundtrack freaking owns. Solid remake.
It's genuinely hard to imagine what another Smash Bros game will look like in the future after they created the definitive edition like this. Honestly I'm probably the only person in the world who thinks the roster in Smash Bros is actually too big but whatever. The variation is fun.
My biggest complaint with the game, other than the roster being a bit overwhelming now, is how completely lame the campaign is. It sucks! Nintendo it's not that hard, just give us another Subspace Emissary-like campaign. I know Brawl is hardly a well-loved Smash game but at least it had a good story mode.
My biggest complaint with the game, other than the roster being a bit overwhelming now, is how completely lame the campaign is. It sucks! Nintendo it's not that hard, just give us another Subspace Emissary-like campaign. I know Brawl is hardly a well-loved Smash game but at least it had a good story mode.
2012
I have a special fondness for Borderlands 2 because not only was it the first game to get my wife into first person shooters, but it was also the main way the two of us kept in touch with a couple friends of ours that had moved out of town.
I think Borderlands 2 is, sadly, where the Borderlands franchise peaked and Gearbox hasn't been able to meet this quality in every attempt since. The story and tone are perfect without feeling like it's ever trying too hard the way subsequent Borderlands games felt. The gameplay felt great. Every aspect of it works together to create a fantastic game experience that we still think back on fondly.
I think Borderlands 2 is, sadly, where the Borderlands franchise peaked and Gearbox hasn't been able to meet this quality in every attempt since. The story and tone are perfect without feeling like it's ever trying too hard the way subsequent Borderlands games felt. The gameplay felt great. Every aspect of it works together to create a fantastic game experience that we still think back on fondly.
2012
It's honestly too bad the trend of games that feature your Xbox Avatar or Nintendo Mii died out. I thought it was neat. Even if most the games were just fine.
2018
The tennis part of this tennis game is actually pretty fun. It's a shame everything else surrounding it, including the campaign mode, all kind of suck.
2012
I played so much of this dang game in college with friends from back home. I still have a folder on my phone with about 50 saved screenshots of drawings by either myself or friends. Good times.
2014
The story mode is goofy af but playing local versus against friends is pretty fun. Whenever my wife and I played it, we always opted for strictly Tetris mode because neither of us were very good at or cared for Puyo Puyo. Eventually we realized we'd probably be happier just playing a Tetris game.
Game itself is a solid rhythm game with a decent tracklist, but the minigames feel cheap. Additionally, I bought the physical drum controllers for this and had a lot of issues trying to get the input lag figured out with my TV. There's an in-game system that supposedly helps you auto-sync your controller, but even after doing that it was way off. Completely unplayable with the physical drum controllers, sadly.
2011
A cute, charming, and wonderfully unique little puzzle game.
2019
It's neat that we got this incredibly cool arcade game at home, but this game lives and dies on its ability to be played on a couch with 8 people. We tried with 4 people against bots and 2v2 and it just was not fun. Really cool as an arcade game but having a game that simply doesn't work without 8 people doesn't really lend itself to a home console experience.
2020
Ninjala desperately feels like it's trying to capitalize on the Splatoon hype by making a cute, accessible online multiplayer game but the results are mediocre at best. I did not find the game to be particularly good or interesting, but the game still somehow exists years later so I guess it's doing something right.
2017
It's more Splatoon. I spent like 50 hours 100% completing the campaign with every available weapon because I am a psychopath. Do not recommend. Game is good because Splatoon is good, but it doesn't do anything revolutionary over its predecessor beyond adding Salmon Run (which is pretty fun).