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ViewtifulJoe posted...

Something about 10 exhausts me.
The game went crazy with those short jumps where an enemy flies out of the hole to intercept you.

I don't really like the weapons in 10 either, weapon selection was something 9 absolutely nailed. In this one you get the thunder cloud that takes eight weeks to launch, Nitroman's wheel which is more like item 3 than a boss weapon, a remote missile where you have to stop moving to aim and chill spike.

Also too many of the robots are big dumb shapes with angry eyes drawn on as opposed to guys in stupid costumes. Makes it harder for me to come up with personalities for them.

Yeah.. Id go so far to say it has one of the worst arsenals, if not the worst, in the classic series. You kinda hit it on the head. Even the ones that are somewhat decent have some sort of odd trigger or exception you have to consider in order for them to be of any use. Triple Blades are pretty easily the best thing in the game, but even those have that awkward trajectory change when you fire them while jumping.

Its almost like the devs told themselves hey now, the weapons in 9 were too good and useful, we need to seriously take it down a notch for this one and just nerfed the hell out of everything. Thankfully things got back on track again with 11.