Games I Dislike That Everybody Else Likes
"Look at how they massacred my boy... " - Don Vito Corleone, The Godfather (1972).
Monotony. Right off the bat it's impossible to knock the ambition on display, trying to take the series in a new direction - but out of a combination of sufficient resources not being there and a core concept that isn't fully realized yet, it flounders as soon as it begins. Instead of having some of the finest, most definable levels of any 3D platformer collectathon like the (infinitely superior) first game you've got a shittier collection of micro-levels that mostly feel the same as one another - in an overworld that's a major bore to navigate. Frill Neck Forest is kind of okay with its big floor net and lightly foggy skies, but the rest bite the dust. The progression system here can't even be called competent let alone satisfying, and the voice acting mostly stinks (I loathe that Steve character). And in trying to be a Ratchet & Clank/Jak and Daxter clone you inevitably end up being worse than even the crappiest games from those series. A big swing, but ultimately a miss.
"Look at how they massacred my boy... " - Don Vito Corleone, The Godfather (1972).
Monotony. Right off the bat it's impossible to knock the ambition on display, trying to take the series in a new direction - but out of a combination of sufficient resources not being there and a core concept that isn't fully realized yet, it flounders as soon as it begins. Instead of having some of the finest, most definable levels of any 3D platformer collectathon like the (infinitely superior) first game you've got a shittier collection of micro-levels that mostly feel the same as one another - in an overworld that's a major bore to navigate. Frill Neck Forest is kind of okay with its big floor net and lightly foggy skies, but the rest bite the dust. The progression system here can't even be called competent let alone satisfying, and the voice acting mostly stinks (I loathe that Steve character). And in trying to be a Ratchet & Clank/Jak and Daxter clone you inevitably end up being worse than even the crappiest games from those series. A big swing, but ultimately a miss.