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29, isle of wight
don't call me gamer when i'm a mess, don't call me gamer when i get undressed.
my profile picture is from Super Mario RPG.
most of my ratings are a 3.0+ because i rarely finish games i don't like
i tend to like 3D platformers and action rpg's the most.
other than jak and daxter, the games listed in my favorites are the games i most recently gave a 5 star rating to.
29, isle of wight
don't call me gamer when i'm a mess, don't call me gamer when i get undressed.
my profile picture is from Super Mario RPG.
most of my ratings are a 3.0+ because i rarely finish games i don't like
i tend to like 3D platformers and action rpg's the most.
other than jak and daxter, the games listed in my favorites are the games i most recently gave a 5 star rating to.
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This was fantastic. I've never played the original (I actually found out it never even released here until the virtual console releases).
I have only have a few very small issues with it, the first being less of an issue with this game specifically but more an issue with the genre, and that's the lack of enemy HP bars, it's not a big deal but it's something where I genuinely don't understand why people would not want them.
The second is probably just a holdover from the original that they just didn't change and that's in the sunken ship there's a door that needs a code to be entered to open, and there's 6 puzzle doors before it that give you hint scrolls like the first letter is P, and the word is found at the bottom of the sea, these are fine but when you get to the door you'd expect the scrolls to be in the pause menus somewhere so you can re-read them, but they just aren't, so I had to go back and read them again.
The last issue is in the final area there are these 6 doors, 2 combat, 2 platforming and 2 puzzle doors. The combat and platforming ones are fine but the 2 puzzle doors are awful, one being a god damn quiz that gave me Banjo-Kazooie flashbacks (I genuinely hate Rare for Grunty's Furnace Fun). Luckily you only need to do 4 doors, so you can skip the puzzle one's, but the game doesn't tell you which door is what, so you have to waste time failing the puzzle doors to get back to the door select area.
Other than those very small issues, I loved this.
I have only have a few very small issues with it, the first being less of an issue with this game specifically but more an issue with the genre, and that's the lack of enemy HP bars, it's not a big deal but it's something where I genuinely don't understand why people would not want them.
The second is probably just a holdover from the original that they just didn't change and that's in the sunken ship there's a door that needs a code to be entered to open, and there's 6 puzzle doors before it that give you hint scrolls like the first letter is P, and the word is found at the bottom of the sea, these are fine but when you get to the door you'd expect the scrolls to be in the pause menus somewhere so you can re-read them, but they just aren't, so I had to go back and read them again.
The last issue is in the final area there are these 6 doors, 2 combat, 2 platforming and 2 puzzle doors. The combat and platforming ones are fine but the 2 puzzle doors are awful, one being a god damn quiz that gave me Banjo-Kazooie flashbacks (I genuinely hate Rare for Grunty's Furnace Fun). Luckily you only need to do 4 doors, so you can skip the puzzle one's, but the game doesn't tell you which door is what, so you have to waste time failing the puzzle doors to get back to the door select area.
Other than those very small issues, I loved this.
This was a 4, but in the final dungeon there's a bunch of koopaling bosses in a row, which isn't inherently bad, but the last couple have these timer bombs that mean you have to win in a certain amount of turns or they blow and you die. It's not like they're super hard or anything, but I don't like having the freedom to beat bosses as slowly as I want being taken away from me. I also found the final bosses spinning attack really hard to get the dodge timing right.
This game is pretty and it could've been pretty good if it was just a pure platformer, instead they did the thing companies always do when making games exclusively for Nintendo hardware, they shove whatever gimmick the console has into the game, in this case, annoying touch screen stuff.