tempted to give this higher because it is "functional". its programming works as intended. it is technically a "video game".

...but it's also one of the most soulless, evil products ever conceived. every concept is either actively terrible or a poorly copied shadow of better ideas from previous, better games with mechanics and execution that seem almost ai-generated in their baffling levels of laziness and incompetence.

sticker star is a glimpse into a world without art and without joy. avoid it like the plague.

don't watch the anime if you haven't read the manga (mark fisher's capitalist realism)

deeply hate that i do not deeply hate this game

very thankful switch online just tells friends i'm playing "nintendo 64" so they can imagine it's something good rather than logging hour 100 on this piece of shit

how do you even rate something like this? guess i could list its "objective" "problems" and issues of pacing, kinda jank dlc and occasionally unfair platforming but who even cares. nothing does what hollow knight does as well as it does it. nothing feels like hollow knight. five stars, fuck it

why don't men dress like this anymore

guts man would be a qanon guy i think

love mega man's cute lil glancing around in the level select. that's game design, baby

capcom releasing a new game each year well into the SNES' lifespan really convinced people the last two NES entries aren't by far the best smh

splash woman call me anytime

worst game i ever accidentally wasted 700 hours on
(hero players will ofc never see the kingdom of god)

always saw this as the weaker predecessor to two better games i'd rather be playing (ocarina and link between worlds) but y'know what, it's not half bad! dungeon design, music and combat hold up well and once you adjust to how arcade-y it feels comparatively to later zeldas, it's a pretty engrossing world to kill a couple hours in.

majority of its female characters being collectable dungeon trinkets to get "rescued" and then leave forever is still extremely cringe, tho. minus half a star right there.