Vuvuzela
Audio is bad on Switch; particularly voices which are tinny af. Feels like they were up against the limit for storage size on the card and just cheaped out on compression and made all the voices just midi files or some garbage, and didn't want to include a free download/patch to make it sound good.
My parents bought this for me for some ungodly reason. I got soft-locked many areas deep. At no point was it fun.
2000
The rare game from this era, and especially on the N64, that's aged amazingly. Just as playable and solid today as it was in 2000.
2009
You cannot turn off the camera noise that the console makes when you save, even if you have headphones on or the audio turned to zero. If you for some reason own this and have it installed, do not play this game in public places like on a bus.
2001
So much more charm than some of the later ones--this iteration understood "coziness" in the right ways and made your villagers feel so much less generic than the newer ones.
Best iteration in the series, via having a good compromise of features from the old days and newer QoL without flanderizing things and losing their soul to pander.
2013
Great until... a certain point.
2012
One of those games that I played because people simped for it a bunch randomly online then.... it was just very generic? Nothing particularly wrong with it, just absolutely nothing special about it either to warrant spending your time on it.
2017
One of those games where it feels like they forgot how to build on mechanics/create any depth after about 1/3rd through the game, alongside writing/plot that a kid watching Saturday morning cartoons would find offensively overdone/boring. Gameplay is one of those classic 3D jank games where it gets to be hard to tell if you're supposed to be accomplishing things by doing them the way you are or not.
I bought it on sale out of curiosity because I listened to people who insisted it was a game with great gameplay and I shouldn't be put off by all the schoolgirls with giant tits and how you strip them as part of the gameplay loop because softcore anime teen nudity wasn't the only reason to play it.
It does not have good gameplay.
It does not have good gameplay.
2012
Cool little experiment
The Mario version is absurdly unforgiving in its difficulty, while the P&DZ part actually holds your hand and has a pretty reasonable difficulty curve. You'd expect the opposite, so that people new to the franchise who were lured in by the Mario tie-in would find it more accessible. Still a fun game and overall solid way to play a series that is otherwise primarily F2P.
Not a bad DLC; it basically functions as you'd expect for an MMO's expansion to work--max level is increased on everything, here's a new area, and here's some max-level content that's good to tackle with friends. Unfortunately, unlike the base game, you do feel the "gear grind" start to set in here, where you realize the only reason you're still playing is to get better gear so you can do the content you just did more effectively, while I felt like the base game had things better entwined. If you like the game enough to get to the end and max out most of the jobs, getting this is a no-brainer.
2017
Only significant downside is the quality of translation. It's overall easier than most games in this genre, but it's very reasonable for more-casual fans, with well-priced extra content.
2019
Not a ton of replay value compared to other rogue-likes, as it's mostly just about the puzzle of figuring out how to beat some, and the harder ones are usually just hard because of less-fun impositions on the player. Very fun experience to run through that first time though.