🏅90%

The only other superhero game (I think) I've played that's like this is Spider-Man PS4, which is one of my favorite video games of all time. This game isn't as good, but it has a great story, perfect tone, and is a fun game to play. The combat never gets boring whether it's a boss fight or random prisoners in the halls of Arkham Asylum. The boss fights are unique and make them stand out. I also think that the game is very creative. I do think the start is a little slow but in the end it's fantastic. I'd highly recommend this game to anyone who enjoys Batman. This makes me even more excited for Arkham City!

👍70%

With the upcoming release of Kirby and the Forgotten Land, I thought I would start playing the Kirby games (some replays too). The first Kirby game, Dream Land, is your typical, generic platform game. It doesn't bring anything new to the genre and it doesn't try anything different. The levels look pretty much all the same as well but at least there is variety in the enemies and boss fights. The game itself isn't really that bad of a game. It's still fun to play and a nice start to the Kirby franchise. Kirby is a fun character to play as and you don't get bored of him at all. Sometimes the controls can feel a little stiff, but in the end they work. One thing about this game that I'm happy is in here, is the continue option. In some GB games, you lose all your lives and have to start over. At least this game had the decency to let you restart on the last stage if you ran out of lives instead of sending you all the way back to the beginning. This game probably wouldn't be remembered if it wasn't a Kirby game, but I would still recommend it to frequent platform players and fans of the Kirby franchise.

👍68%

This game really doesn't do anything differently from it's predecessor. The level designs don't really change and it looks exactly the same way. The controls show no improvement over a three year difference (which usually happens in platformers) and the bosses aren't unique. It's basically a much longer version of Dream Land 1. But you know what, it's fun. There's no shortage of charm in this game and all of the characters are fun to play as. The game is easily bingeable and it doesn't get old at all. My biggest complaint with it though is that it feels more like an expansion of Dream Land than a sequel. It's fun regardless, but since it doesn't do anything differently and feels exactly like the first, it's more like Dream Land 1.5. Hopefully Dream Land 3 shows some improvement and feels more like a sequel. This game is a lot of fun, but there is room for improvement. I'd still play it if you like the first game though and other Kirby games!

👌60%

I kept hearing that this is the best Dream Land game, but I think the opposite. This is easily my least favorite of the Dream Land games. It's okay, but it doesn't try anything new. What this game had going for it was that it was continuing the GameBoy franchise for SNES. The SNES obviously has technological advancements so there could've been more to this. For example, Super Mario World took the SNES to it's advantage and made the NES franchise fresh and even better than all of it's predecessors. Dream Land 3 on the other hand doesn't really do much. It is definitely better with graphics and sound, and the OST is beautiful, but the feel of the game is hardly different. The gameplay is the same, the worlds feel the same, and it just feels too generic. Dream Land 2 was the same with that, but at least I found it fun to play and it went by pretty quickly. This game felt a bit slow and the half hour it took for me to beat each world felt like an hour. I didn't get all of the heart stars so Dedede was the final boss for me, and I found that anticlimactic. I know he technically isn't the final boss, but for players who didn't get all of the heart stars, they could've tried to make a better ending. What the game succeeded with though was the charm this series has and it still has it's moments to be really fun. The animal friends are fun to use as well. The abilities are the same but they still are enjoyable. While this isn't my favorite Kirby game, it's still okay. I'd recommend it only to die hard Kirby fans.

👎42%

As a massive Olaf fan, this game sucks. This game is equivalent to a mobile game with the lack of content and ease of play. It's a kids game and will most likely entertain it's target audience so I give it points for that, but overall as a game it's not good. There are no stakes in the game whatsoever because you literally cannot die. You can lose objects by landing on spikes, but there are no lives lost. That eliminates all of the stakes that could've been here. That is one of the contributors to the levels being really boring. The levels hardly have any variety besides background change which makes this already short game hard to get through. The collectibles are boring and easy to get, but I didn't get them all because of the lack of interest of getting a 100% in this game. The only rewards for getting the collectibles are clothing accessories to Olaf which don't add anything to the game. The game does at least have some charm though as Olaf is fun to play as, and Josh Gad was fun enough. While Olaf's Quest could've been something good, it was extremely boring and easy. It will at least entertain it's target audience, but unfortunately nobody else.

👍70%

I've played two other WarioWare games, and I prefer both of them over this. The others are four stars, but this one couldn't quite reach that. I had a lot of fun playing this one, but I have quite a few complaints. The first thing is the story. I had fun with it and it was a nice short story to binge, but I didn't really feel like much thought went into it. The setup was fine and the ending was good enough (but made absolutely no sense), but the progression got a bit repetitive. The microgames can start feeling the same after a while which makes it a bit boring towards the very end. Some of the characters are also a chore in some microgames. I ended up using the same four characters the whole time because they were good with any game, while most were a chore in some aspects. The party games are fine but get old quick when playing alone, and I don't see how often I'd play party games with someone else. Regardless, I found the game fun. It still has the charm other WarioWare games have and the microgames are still fun. I had a great time with it, but it's not without it's flaws. Also, why didn't they have motion controls in this? The Switch has motion controls so they could've done something amazing with them!

👍74%

My Arkham City disc decided it didn't want to work anymore, so while I waited for a new one I played this game. I haven't played any Lego story/brawler like this before, so I didn't know what to expect. The game was a lot of fun and I plan on checking out more (especially Lego Star Wars with the new one coming out)! The action was a lot of fun and I never found it repetitive. The missions were fun to go through too, with my favorites being Two-Face chase and the Scarecrow one where you're in the Batwing. I definitely want to play 2, 3 and DC Villains after playing this game!

🏆95%

My game disc skipped halfway through the game so I had to wait a bit before getting back. Arkham City somehow improved on the already great Arkham Asylum. The only complaint I have is that the Catwoman story feels like a distraction to the Batman story. It does tie in, but it's lazily tied in. Other than that, it's a perfect Batman game. It cleverly continues on what was set up in Arkham Asylum and delivers on another fantastic story. You get a phenomenal redemption arc for Batman and the ending was absolutely shocking. The game builds up to it without you realizing it because you are so invested in everything else going on. The performances by Conroy and Hamill were great just like they were in the first game. Arkham City is a fantastic Batman game and one of the best PS3 games.

👍68%

You could definitely tell that this game was made by a different studio. You shouldn't hold that against any game with a studio change, but when the style changes a bit and the overall tone doesn't quite feel like the past two, it can create problems. The problem with this was it felt like it was released as a first draft. It's good, but it doesn't reach where Asylum and City were. The story needed polishing to it and the overall execution could've been better. It also started getting repetitive unlike the last two games. My biggest complaint was there was too much back and forth and the travel just wasn't fun. In Spider-Man PS4, swinging was fun so I didn't mind long distances to missions. In this game though, gliding became a chore and it made the game less enjoyable.

Graphically the game is better with more detail in the city of Gotham and the characters look less choppy. The combat system isn't as good as the other two games, but it is still suitable. I also thought it did a good job foreshadowing things from Asylum and City without making any of it feel forced. The boss fights are also some of the best in the series. The boss fights are the highlight of the game, and if they weren't as good my score would be way lower. It is an exposition dump to introduce them all at the beginning, but when you fight them it's a lot of fun. Deathstroke and the last Bane fight were the best ones. Overall Arkham Origins is a fun game, but it doesn't live up to the past two. As a prequel it does it's job, but the execution of the story could've been a bit better.

😃82%

Kirby 64 is exactly what you could've wanted from a N64 Kirby game. The 64-bit graphics go so well with this universe that it creates some really cool designs in the bosses and levels. It can feel restricted at times as it creates these gigantic worlds yet you can only go in a straight line, but this game isn't going for a grand epic scope, so it isn't that big of a problem. The levels are very creative with the constant background changes and worlds you go to. It makes the game more interesting to play and keeps you in the game. It also keeps the charm that has been established in other Kirby games and it never gets old. I can always go for the charm the Kirby games have and this is one is no different from the others in that aspect. It keeps the things that were great about other classic Kirby games and ditches stuff that made me dislike some things in the games.

What really screamed "this is THE N64 Kirby game" were the copy abilities. They were so unique and something we haven't seen in a Kirby game before as you can combine abilities. I loved being able to combine fire and cutter to get a fire sword and get other awesome abilities. I hope you can do that in other Kirby games in the future since I really love that idea. The story itself is good enough as it's a platformer separated in the levels, so it doesn't have the most fleshed out story. That doesn't really matter though since we have a lot of fun in the levels though and a fun game you can easily binge. Kirby 64 is the breath of fresh air the Kirby franchise needed and one that I will remember from this franchise.

😃82%

I only played Kirby 64 and the challenge stages but I briefly checked the other ports. The history "museum" was really cool looking and I liked seeing everything in it. The challenge stages were more fun than I expected them to be and I binged all of them. Those made me excited for Return to Dream Land, but I am playing Amazing Mirror and Squeak Squad first. This is an amazing collection that has six Kirby games that are either good or great (with the exception of Dream Land 3) and adds amazing challenge stages that make this bundle worth it! This is highly recommended for Kirby fans!