funkyMonkeyDance
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I owe Mother 1 an apology.
Off
2008
The only good thing that came from France.
Definitely not fun to be honest! Kind of boring and repetitive, but it was cool because this was my first JoJo game I guess.
Overall kind of a chore to get through but it is an interesting experience as a JoJo fan.
Overall kind of a chore to get through but it is an interesting experience as a JoJo fan.
I miss the era where games weren’t too ambitious or costly for their own good so you could get cool experiments like this with clear passion put into them. Finishing an opponent on round two for a “TARGET DESTROYED” is awesome
Persona 3 Portable
2009
250+ floor hardclimb that captured the hearts of millions and changed their outlook of life forever more
Pokémon Radical Red
2020
Radical Red and its design choices have lowkey been a disaster for Pokemon ROM hacking.
The best about this game is to see how much Toby actually improved after this game.
this game really does have a lot of charm but so many of the yokai designs are ugly as sin and the combat system feels braindead
EarthBound 64
TBD
This had the potential to be better than the final MOTHER 3 we got. Still waiting for the day the rom gets dumped online, hope it comes soon.
While I concede there are a lot of games of worse quality out there, Xenoblade Chronicles 2 is the game I hate the most in the world. Xenoblade 2 throws out what was good in the original and replaces it with porn material and annoying gacha mechanics. Any improvement they did make is near impossible to learn due to the awful tutorials this game provides.
Often times people boil down the differences between Xenoblade 1 and 2 and call Xenoblade 2 more "anime". While I agree with the message behind this, the truth is both games are "anime" and take a lot of themes and tropes from shonen animes; the difference between the two is what they take, and what they do with it. Xenoblade 2 takes too many of these tropes, especially the ones that have more to do with sexualizing women, and don't really mold it in any way beyond the setting. Xenoblade 1, while taking a lot of tropes from shonen animes, still tells a great story with a unique setting and premise, and at the same time mostly avoids the negative tropes and avoids the jerk off material. I think the dichotomy between these games just goes to show that tropes aren't inherently bad, but what matters is what you do with them and what you take from them.
Overall I still give Xenoblade 2 1 star because there is still something resembling a good game here, I like the premise behind the settings, I like a few of the characters who aren't so terribly designed, and so on. The thing is though, for me everything this game has fails miserably. While I didn't finish the game, if half of the chapters leave me this sour, I can't in good faith enjoy the 2nd half even if it is an improvement over the rest. In the end, I find Xenoblade 2 to be one of the most disappointing sequels ever made.
Often times people boil down the differences between Xenoblade 1 and 2 and call Xenoblade 2 more "anime". While I agree with the message behind this, the truth is both games are "anime" and take a lot of themes and tropes from shonen animes; the difference between the two is what they take, and what they do with it. Xenoblade 2 takes too many of these tropes, especially the ones that have more to do with sexualizing women, and don't really mold it in any way beyond the setting. Xenoblade 1, while taking a lot of tropes from shonen animes, still tells a great story with a unique setting and premise, and at the same time mostly avoids the negative tropes and avoids the jerk off material. I think the dichotomy between these games just goes to show that tropes aren't inherently bad, but what matters is what you do with them and what you take from them.
Overall I still give Xenoblade 2 1 star because there is still something resembling a good game here, I like the premise behind the settings, I like a few of the characters who aren't so terribly designed, and so on. The thing is though, for me everything this game has fails miserably. While I didn't finish the game, if half of the chapters leave me this sour, I can't in good faith enjoy the 2nd half even if it is an improvement over the rest. In the end, I find Xenoblade 2 to be one of the most disappointing sequels ever made.