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| Topic | 5 Genesis games added to Nintendo Switch Online |
| SpoinkRulezz 12/18/21 3:52:14 PM #17 | Epyo posted... wheres ristarAlready included at the start. --- Currently playing - Assassin's Creed Origins, Kirby: Triple Deluxe InSIGnificant mesSIGe |
| Topic | Post Each Time You Beat a Game: 2021 Edition Part II |
| SpoinkRulezz 12/16/21 6:50:19 PM #89 | Ys Origin (Switch) Really solid and fun action RPG. I don't love it quite as much as Ys VIII, but it's also a far simpler title with less plot and its length comes from going through the same short game three times with a different character every time, so that is to be expected. I like how they all played differently and the game is smooth as butter as I've come to expect from Ys games having played two of them now. Not a game to play for the plot, it's there and it's serviceable (although it was immersion breaking for me to see characters behave differently at different points in the game depending on whom you're playing with), but definitely fun action and some great bosses as well. I think I paid ten euros for it and it was well worth it. Going through the tower three times was enough for me though. --- Currently playing - Assassin's Creed Origins, Kirby: Triple Deluxe InSIGnificant mesSIGe |
| Topic | Post Each Time You Beat a Game: 2021 Edition Part II |
| SpoinkRulezz 12/13/21 11:38:42 AM #86 | Odin Sphere Leifthrasir (PS4) What an incredible game and I bought it for only 15 too. I've had this in my possession for a while and stopped at some point after Gwendolyn's story and part of Cornelius's, but after I got back into it, I played it straight through basically. So much fun, so smooth and stunning visuals and music. Of course, going through the same areas and enemies five times gets a little bit repetitive, especially as you start out weak again every time, but it should have been a far bigger issue than it really was. The characters all play and control uniquely and every one of them felt powerful at one period in their respective stories. And I was too focused on the great action gameplay to get bored by any kind of repetition. I did only get the good ending, but that's fine. I've gotten everything I wanted out of the 40 wonderful hours I played this. Very much recommended for people who haven't played it yet. --- Currently playing - Kirby: Triple Deluxe, Ys Origin InSIGnificant mesSIGe |
| Topic | Post Each Time You Beat a Game: 2021 Edition Part II |
| SpoinkRulezz 12/06/21 5:17:09 PM #76 | Metroid Dread (Switch) Amazing Metroid game, definitely worth the wait. Everything I thought was going to be weaker initially turned out great in the end. Plenty to explore, great puzzles for upgrades and not as linear as I thought, especially after you get a good amount of upgrades. And there are a ton of upgrades that are all great fun. I just loved Flash Shifting my way through rooms. Bosses are tough, but it's not overly punishing if you lose and I feel like you learn with every attempt, which is great (although I'd argue there could be a little bit more room to learn the attacks in the first attempt, but that's super minor). Especially the final boss was surprisingly tough for a modern Nintendo game, which was a nice surprise. Also, it's relatively lengthy for a 2D Metroid game I thought. The only real weakness I thought was the music, I can't remember anything, nor even a specific atmosphere that the music set. Also, some transition/load times could have been slightly faster maybe. I'll take these small gripes though. Smooth, slick, has the qualities of a good Metroid title and it's just a blast to play. It's at least in my top 4 Metroid games (3D included). --- Currently playing - Kirby: Triple Deluxe, Odin Sphere Leifthrasir InSIGnificant mesSIGe |
| Topic | Post Each Time You Beat a Game: 2021 Edition Part II |
| SpoinkRulezz 12/05/21 7:06:05 PM #75 | Pokemon Brilliant Diamond (Switch) There is honestly not much to say that hasn't already been said. They are simple remakes/remasters/reskins and it feels like the developers didn't know how to make them stand out or how to balance them correctly. Most of the game is a complete breeze, then the Elite 4 and Cynthia got buffed a whole lot compared to the originals and are a big challenge. They are clearly a little more balanced around you having 6 pokemon and being a higher than normal level, yet that makes the rest of the game so easy it becomes a chore. Forced exp share is just not fun, it works okay in SwSh because that game is far more about catching pokemon and doing "Dynamax boss battles" in the open wilds than the main story, while in a game with this classic structure, it makes the Pokemon in your team just kind of exist without the need to have them put effort in. Oh, and being able to just straight up buy some of the strongest TM's in as high a quantity as you want for very little money before the third gym is just overkill and makes finding the TM's in the overworld after exploration incredibly unsatisfying. Bad decision there, they could have postponed offering those TM's until later. Unfortunately, they kept all the things from the original games that were not that great, such as the very lame story, the terrible pokemon variety and locking interesting evolutions to postgame, the overabundance of lame trainers with weak first stage pokemon...the HM's were changed to being useable outside your team, which is far less tedious, so that's cool (and I like how they made Bidoof/Bibarel do everything aside from the HM's that require wings to pull off), and the Grand Underground is fun in giving you cool items to find and some unique Pokemon through the hideouts, although the level difference affecting catch rates became annoying quick (the way to counter that was to overlevel, making the game too easy). All in all, a nice nostalgic trip that is way too safe in the wrong areas, while it changes some things in the wrong areas as well. I started really having fun at the League, where my Pokemon being below there levels provided a solid challenge and required me to play smart here and there (on Set mode, by the way), especially against Cynthia. But before that, it was going through the motions too much. It did remind me how cool the Sinnoh gyms were though. They had some genuinely fun puzzles in them. --- Currently playing - Pokemon Brilliant Diamond, Metroid Dread, Kirby: Triple Deluxe, Odin Sphere Leifthrasir InSIGnificant mesSIGe |
| Topic | Post Each Time You Beat a Game: 2021 Edition Part II |
| SpoinkRulezz 11/19/21 2:01:53 PM #61 | Tales of Berseria (PS4) Finally beat the game after having owned it for five years. All in all, easily my second favorite Tales of game after Symphonia (big nostalgia factor, but also liked the dungeons much more than in Berseria). Gameplay-wise it was both a bit repetitive and convoluted at the same time, but no other Tales of game had a cast and even story I cared as much about overall as Berseria. Amazing cast with no throwaways (having six main characters instead of eight was a great choice in that regard), excellent and interesting side characters, tons of humour but also deeper and more personal interactions...it had everything I wanted in a JRPG story. Maybe the moral grayness becomes a little more black and white towards the end (like they still had to end it in a typical Tales of manner), but it was always there in some amount. And the battles are super fluid and chaotic. Dungeons and enviroments did get a bit repetitive, formulaic and slightly bland, kinda like Xillia, but at least they mixed up a little bit here and there with some area-specific gimmicks. And one final thing is that the text shown in (story) skits in the endgame sidequests is hilariously terrible, they did not check that all. Spoken sentences were written down almost like they used speech recognition, some words and sentences were literally completely different from what was actually being said. Overall, while not perfect, it's a fantastic JRPG and it has become increasingly more difficult for me to get engrossed in these stories, characters and worlds like in younger years, so kudos to Berseria for engrossing me once more. --- Currently playing - Metroid Dread, Tales of Berseria, Kirby: Triple Deluxe InSIGnificant mesSIGe |
| Topic | Post Each Time You Beat a Game: 2021 Edition Part II |
| SpoinkRulezz 11/14/21 7:48:43 PM #49 | The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask 3D (3DS) The last traditional Zelda game I had left to play and beat is now finished (well, there's still Zelda II ...). The time limit was off-putting for a long time, but that ended up not mattering as I played this version (the 3DS version is even worse with the slowed down time being faster than in the N64 version). This might be the most hit or miss Zelda for me alongside Skyward Sword. Majora's Mask had fantastic atmosphere with all the different characters and their personal and emotional stories, so different from any other Zelda game. All the main dungeons are good as well. Item usage is also near perfect in this one. That being said, I do not prefer this game's structure and focus on side content. I know you're supposed to take it slow and just stumble upon a lot of the quests and stories, but it starts getting really old to use the ocarina. It's mostly the second half of the main game where my problems started and I'm sure it's partly the 3DS version's fault. The entire Great Bay area was just painfully annoying with the swimming. I was dreading Great Bay Temple and its infamous difficulty, only to find the dungeon itself wasn't that difficult or confusing at all, but rather the pure annoyance of the swimming and the camera not being friends, and that awful Gyorg. Then Stone Tower Temple (great dungeon, don't get me wrong) again felt very straightforward in terms of navigation and puzzles (especially without the Stray Fairies), but getting the stray fairies required an obscene amount of ocarina playing with that Elegy. And Twinmold...this version made me miss 3DS Gyorg, which says it all. One of the most frustrating Zelda bosses I've ever played. I have literally grown a fear of tripping because of this boss. Then the final part of the game was lame and again, fairly frustrating in at least this version. The time system wasn't really a problem anymore. The only thing I didn't like about it was that I never felt like I could take my time and appreciate the dungeons. They are awesomely designed, but I was also focusing on completing the dungeon within the cycle, and the 3DS version made the slowed down cycle go faster than the N64 version. Overall, some insane highs, but also some of the most frutrating and tedious moments in the series for me. Maybe the N64 version would have been a better experience, but then again, that one has elements making it even more tedious, so I guess it's just not my favorite Zelda game as I had already expected. Still happy to have played this unique entry and there were still many parts I did love. --- Currently playing - Tales of Berseria, Celeste, Kirby: Triple Deluxe InSIGnificant mesSIGe |
| Topic | Do you consider remakes as mainline games? |
| SpoinkRulezz 10/13/21 7:58:26 AM #18 | Very much depends on the remake. It depends on how much difference there actually is between the original game and the remake. I'd say a FFVII Remake is far too different of an experience, and so is RE2 Remake. From what I've played, I would consider Metroid: Zero Mission not as a replacement for Metroid 1, it changed too much and looks/feels too different. I also played Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga on 3DS, but that game gives you basically the same experience as the GBA game because the graphical upgrade is noticeable but doesn't really affect the gameplay experience. Then there is something like FF3 DS, which is somewhere in between, but the NES version never had an English release before then. I think that despite the 3D and some changes to the mechanics and the jobs, I would consider that to be mainline because of availability reasons at that time and because it was still similar enough to the original in most ways. --- Currently playing - Tales of Berseria, Celeste, Kirby: Triple Deluxe InSIGnificant mesSIGe |
| Topic | Best/Worst #13 - Wii Sports Sport |
| SpoinkRulezz 09/30/21 12:52:02 PM #33 | Best: Tennis Worst: Boxing Boxing's controls are ridiculously inaccurate, slow and delayed, while in tennis there is a surprising amount of different ways to hit the ball considering the simplicity of Wii Sports and it generally translates motion inputs the best out of every game. Bowling is fine too, slightly less accurate, but still good and the most accessible for everyone. Baseball and golf aren't as great, but at least they still kind of feel like the actual sports, unlike boxing which requires far more precise controls to be enjoyable in a motion-controlled game like this. --- Currently playing - Tales of Berseria, Celeste, Kirby: Triple Deluxe InSIGnificant mesSIGe |
| Topic | Which of these animals is NOT POISONOUS???? |
| SpoinkRulezz 08/23/21 10:09:54 AM #7 | Gotta be 3. --- Currently playing - Final Fantasy IX, The Great Ace Attorney Chronicles, Pokemon Sword, Kirby: Triple Deluxe, Shin Megami Tensei IV InSIGnificant mesSIGe |
| Topic | Do you have any MEDICAL DISEASES?? 80% of the POPULATION does!!!! |
| SpoinkRulezz 08/15/21 2:52:31 AM #7 | Is YoUr DiSeAsE HOT!!!??? --- Currently playing - Final Fantasy IX, The Great Ace Attorney Chronicles, Shin Megami Tensei IV InSIGnificant mesSIGe |
| Topic | Most disappointing games you've played? |
| SpoinkRulezz 08/10/21 1:33:17 PM #94 | Bravely Default II Final Fantasy XIII Pokemon Sword Xenoblade Chronicles 2 These are some I played that I would mention. Maybe BotW to a lesser extent, but it was still really great. --- Currently playing - Shin Megami Tensei IV InSIGnificant mesSIGe |
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