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A sequel to a game that honestly did not really need one. New. Super Mario Bros. 2 introduces some new powerups over the original New Super Mario Bros., such as the raccoon leaf from Super Mario Bros. 3 and the Gold Flower. The game's main gimmick revolves around coins, which is a brutally uninteresting concept. The game does have numerous callbacks to old Mario enemies, bosses, levels and powerups, but just as the other NSMB games, fails to invent anything new for the franchise.
A Short Hike
2019
A little cozy game that makes you feel calm and content with your accomplishments.
Possibly the best or one of the best 2D platformers ever released. Music is banging, every level feels alive and unique and part of the island/world you're in. Beautiful as well another Nintendo classic.
Psychonauts
2005
What an absolute banger of a game. It has so many clever and unique ideas, and among the best level design I've ever seen. That combined with the funny dialog, memorable characters, and great story, it's not hard to see why this game attained the cult status it has.
Super Mario RPG
2023
A near perfect distillation of everything that makes an RPG an RPG. Full of tremendous whimsy, humor, gorgeous visuals, interesting minigames, an outstanding soundtrack, satisfying but challenging combat, and a true sense of heart. If I had one gripe there's occasionally a bit of annoying platforming or slightly confusing level design, but it makes sense given the restrictions of the SNES. And the game is beatable in like 10-12 hours, there is absolutely no fluff or excess.
Battle Monsters
1995
Shitty fighting games... what are they exactly? Out of every genre out there, fighters feel the hardest to fuck up because even at their worst there's just an immense amount of enjoyment to be had from it's potentially fucked up mechanics, terrible character designs, "what were they thinking with this broken op move?", etc.
There's just this point where sometimes the crap factor goes so low that it underflows and comes out through the top and becomes the best shit you could experience, and I think Battle Monsters here represents that feeling for me. The characters are absolutely hysterical, digitized actors in cheap costumes and cg models. The roster includes Frankenstein's Monster played by Michael Myers, a non-copyright infringing Shao Kahn, a dude who looks like Spinal with Kabuki hair, a pair of mimes that fight alongside each other, a medusa lady who yells like a cartoon character, etc. It reeks of cheesy b-movie insanity, I fucking love it.
The gameplay is kinda like Savage Reign or perhaps a jank Smash Bros with health bars instead of KO zones with three jump buttons to move between platforms of varying heights, not one stage is alike in their layout or gimmicks. There even seems to be interactibles similar to MKX or Injustice where you can knock down boulders and stalactites to hit your opponent. The actual fighting is so easy peasy a stone age cavemen could do it, you could probably play this with the most unassuming friend who knows nothing about fighting games, literally so easy a baboon could play this at high level. Assuming "high level" is even a thing and that this game only plays at low level by default.
This game is fucking dumb and I give it a hard recommend if you enjoy crap fighting games. Hell, I recommend this shit even if you like stupid games in general. It's an absolute blast, I wasted an afternoon playing it. I try my absolute damndest to not hand out meme ratings, but I really had to fight the urge to not give this shit five stars. Seriously, check it out.
There's just this point where sometimes the crap factor goes so low that it underflows and comes out through the top and becomes the best shit you could experience, and I think Battle Monsters here represents that feeling for me. The characters are absolutely hysterical, digitized actors in cheap costumes and cg models. The roster includes Frankenstein's Monster played by Michael Myers, a non-copyright infringing Shao Kahn, a dude who looks like Spinal with Kabuki hair, a pair of mimes that fight alongside each other, a medusa lady who yells like a cartoon character, etc. It reeks of cheesy b-movie insanity, I fucking love it.
The gameplay is kinda like Savage Reign or perhaps a jank Smash Bros with health bars instead of KO zones with three jump buttons to move between platforms of varying heights, not one stage is alike in their layout or gimmicks. There even seems to be interactibles similar to MKX or Injustice where you can knock down boulders and stalactites to hit your opponent. The actual fighting is so easy peasy a stone age cavemen could do it, you could probably play this with the most unassuming friend who knows nothing about fighting games, literally so easy a baboon could play this at high level. Assuming "high level" is even a thing and that this game only plays at low level by default.
This game is fucking dumb and I give it a hard recommend if you enjoy crap fighting games. Hell, I recommend this shit even if you like stupid games in general. It's an absolute blast, I wasted an afternoon playing it. I try my absolute damndest to not hand out meme ratings, but I really had to fight the urge to not give this shit five stars. Seriously, check it out.
