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I unironically love Chain of Memories. I played the GBA game to death and would spend hours building the perfect deck just for kicks. Naturally, I was excited to experience that all again with (for the time) cutting edge graphics.
But, man, the card battle system does not translate to 3D space where positioning is important. The third dimension takes a game that rocks and turns it into a game that absolutely sucks.
But, man, the card battle system does not translate to 3D space where positioning is important. The third dimension takes a game that rocks and turns it into a game that absolutely sucks.
2010
NieR is an incredible game, it's just a shame that you have to play it.
2005
I lost so many hours to the level creator in this
2005
This is the definition of nostalgic comfort gaming for me. It truly captures how magical the DS era was at first and just how much a simple touch screen would go on to change how we approach gaming interfaces
Now this... this is prime childhood Pokémon right here! I maintain that the series has never topped the feeling of exploration that Hoenn provided, though Sinnoh did come close. I had sunk about a hundred hours into this game before finding Sky Pillar, the Regis, or Shoal Cave. Spelunking in the Sunken Ship for the sleekest Pokéball in the series, ascending Mt. Pyre into the clouds, carving out a secret base near a waterfall in a route perpetually covered by thunderstorms - all top tier atmosphere.
I don't wanna be that guy yelling "the old stuff from MY childhood is better!!!!" but the series really did lose something in the transition to 3D. Here's hoping Legends Arceus recaptures some of that magic that made me fall in love with this series.
I don't wanna be that guy yelling "the old stuff from MY childhood is better!!!!" but the series really did lose something in the transition to 3D. Here's hoping Legends Arceus recaptures some of that magic that made me fall in love with this series.
I'd dock this game a bit more for just how completely unfocused it is and how few levels involve platforming, but I'm a huge fan of esoteric secrets leading to extra challenge levels
Plus, to an eight year old, a fruit bazooka was the most badass thing in the world
Plus, to an eight year old, a fruit bazooka was the most badass thing in the world
1997
absolutely bonkers that this has more in common with Star Fox 64 than Yoshi's Island
also: https://youtu.be/MBsTiUrRunQ
also: https://youtu.be/MBsTiUrRunQ
This game had like a 60% chance of frying my computer every time I booted it up, but the game inside was so captivating that I would repeatedly tempt fate all the time just to try and reach a new stage
In retrospect it just messed with the monitor's resolution settings and wouldn't revert them back after closing the application, but childhood me had no idea what that meant and didn't want to get in trouble for breaking the computer so I'd just do a system restore to fix it because that's what I read on the internet about removing viruses so surely that must be the remedy here
In retrospect it just messed with the monitor's resolution settings and wouldn't revert them back after closing the application, but childhood me had no idea what that meant and didn't want to get in trouble for breaking the computer so I'd just do a system restore to fix it because that's what I read on the internet about removing viruses so surely that must be the remedy here
Wild how good this game is for its time (and how much Metal Gear Solid just shamelessly stole most of its iconic moments right out of this game in what feels like an attempt to memory-hole the fact that it ever existed yet still directly references the events of the game as canon)
2013
The Year of Luigi was one of Nintendo's worst financial years on record
2006
Racing games that let you integrate your own music into the game are automatic 4.5 outta 5 ratings for me and I feel no shame in admitting that
I have the rereleased version of this game where the box art is just a photograph of the original DS case for this game like some avant garde artistic inception and that alone elevates this a game a star for me
This was also my introduction to Metroidvanias and it absolutely slaps so that's cool too
This was also my introduction to Metroidvanias and it absolutely slaps so that's cool too
2004
This is the definitive SM64 experience and I will not hear arguments to the contrary
I refuse to play this game without the Omniwrench lightsaber cheat code enabled
The Kirby franchise works so well as a Metroidvania that I'm absolutely gobsmacked at how we didn't see more of it