xeivious
2004
such an incredible game.
sorta goofy and confusing to get into at first but when i did it was super thrilling and fun.
besides the final boss, my issues are mostly nitpicks i guess.
the treasure alarm sound is very annoying and couldve been a more pronounced onscreen visual setting option.
there shouldve been a reset sublevel button feature in the game menu instead of just physically shutting the game off and resetting it after making some grave mistake lol then if its an in game option the game could track how many times you reset the game for your endgame totals lol then your could really brag about how truly good you were at the game lol
maybe youre just meant to focus solely on the gameplay and not think too deep about the setting of the caves but theyre are often kinda bland and ugly looking visually with nonsense void rooms that somehow connect to each other through dirt holes? even tho some of them are metal/wood so how does that work? i wish it meshed more to be more immersive like the other games are. like why is there a kindergarten room in a cave? its a cute setting but none of it makes sense. maybe there couldve been magic space portals instead of dirt holes to explain all that lol whatever
but i wish the caves individually each had 1 singular consistent look for all their sublevels. its always random what theme itll be and it makes them all blend together too easily and i cant tell them apart by the names really.
the final boss sucks.
theres no health bar? its too dark and you cant see what youre doing, and the electricity instantly kills your non yellow pikmin which the other hazards dont do for other colors. its the only gameplay aspect that stops this game from being a perfect 5 star game for me. oh well
still loved this a lot tho. it was nice to remember what it feels like to play a real game again after all the fake lazy games that the switch era has given.
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sorta goofy and confusing to get into at first but when i did it was super thrilling and fun.
besides the final boss, my issues are mostly nitpicks i guess.
the treasure alarm sound is very annoying and couldve been a more pronounced onscreen visual setting option.
there shouldve been a reset sublevel button feature in the game menu instead of just physically shutting the game off and resetting it after making some grave mistake lol then if its an in game option the game could track how many times you reset the game for your endgame totals lol then your could really brag about how truly good you were at the game lol
maybe youre just meant to focus solely on the gameplay and not think too deep about the setting of the caves but theyre are often kinda bland and ugly looking visually with nonsense void rooms that somehow connect to each other through dirt holes? even tho some of them are metal/wood so how does that work? i wish it meshed more to be more immersive like the other games are. like why is there a kindergarten room in a cave? its a cute setting but none of it makes sense. maybe there couldve been magic space portals instead of dirt holes to explain all that lol whatever
but i wish the caves individually each had 1 singular consistent look for all their sublevels. its always random what theme itll be and it makes them all blend together too easily and i cant tell them apart by the names really.
the final boss sucks.
theres no health bar? its too dark and you cant see what youre doing, and the electricity instantly kills your non yellow pikmin which the other hazards dont do for other colors. its the only gameplay aspect that stops this game from being a perfect 5 star game for me. oh well
still loved this a lot tho. it was nice to remember what it feels like to play a real game again after all the fake lazy games that the switch era has given.
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2017
not having mushroom city, double dash bowsers castle, or double dash star road sucks but ill be forever bitter they never added wario colosseum to this game. it feels so perfect for this one. when i first saw the zero gravity gimmick i thought ‘oh this would be perfect for wario colosseum!” but they just… never used it. i got excited for the dlc adding new courses and then was disappointed yet again that it was never included in favor of dumb ugly mobile game courses nobody asked for.
fuck off
i hate the tour courses in the dlc. it should be mario locations not real life city locations. i dont care about going to boring ass vancouver canada ??? fuck off. the dlc is too oversaturated with them too.
i hate how the old courses that returned in the dlc are lazy looking on the switch using the cheap tour aesthetic.
they shouldve focused on bringing over tour racer characters & outfits and not adding any of the new courses. just make new courses for the dlc in their place. the fun of returning courses is that theyre from previous generation games people liked not a game thats still making content that nobody in their right mind really cares about.
i hate the splatoon, zelda, and animal crossing characters being added in this.
im fine with the courses being themed after other series but i only want mario characters for the racers
i wish (my favorite character) thwomp was a racer :/
and the old guy from luigis mansion
and captain toad
and bring back rob the robot!
i hate that cat peach, tanooki mario, metal mario, & pink gold peach are separated characters and not different versions of their normal slots the way yoshi, shyguy, & birdo get different colors to select from. (i hate the term skins for that it sounds gross)
i wish they had the original outfit colors for mario and luigi that they had in their original game
i wish theyd added a double dash 2 person on 1 kart option. it was a nice alternative for ppl like my sister who arent as good at games lol
but whatever this is still the best mario kart obviously. i love it for being so accessible for anyone to play while still having a challenge :)
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fuck off
i hate the tour courses in the dlc. it should be mario locations not real life city locations. i dont care about going to boring ass vancouver canada ??? fuck off. the dlc is too oversaturated with them too.
i hate how the old courses that returned in the dlc are lazy looking on the switch using the cheap tour aesthetic.
they shouldve focused on bringing over tour racer characters & outfits and not adding any of the new courses. just make new courses for the dlc in their place. the fun of returning courses is that theyre from previous generation games people liked not a game thats still making content that nobody in their right mind really cares about.
i hate the splatoon, zelda, and animal crossing characters being added in this.
im fine with the courses being themed after other series but i only want mario characters for the racers
i wish (my favorite character) thwomp was a racer :/
and the old guy from luigis mansion
and captain toad
and bring back rob the robot!
i hate that cat peach, tanooki mario, metal mario, & pink gold peach are separated characters and not different versions of their normal slots the way yoshi, shyguy, & birdo get different colors to select from. (i hate the term skins for that it sounds gross)
i wish they had the original outfit colors for mario and luigi that they had in their original game
i wish theyd added a double dash 2 person on 1 kart option. it was a nice alternative for ppl like my sister who arent as good at games lol
but whatever this is still the best mario kart obviously. i love it for being so accessible for anyone to play while still having a challenge :)
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the game is servicable. its mario. theyre always at least servicable.
nothing all that fresh. and thats fine i still had fun with it all as usual.
but its overrated. i should probably just ignore the annoying public consensus.. but too bad im engaging with it!
this just isnt the groundbreaking return to form that people are acting like it is.
yall clowns are still whining about the new super mario bros series being generic or whatever (calm down) but can we all just collectively get fucking real here? this game is just another one of those games but with some new branding and flashier animations and a talking flower to distract you from the fact that it plays basically the damn same. i liked the ‘new’ series but lbr this easily couldve been just ‘new super mario bros switch’.
if the aesthetics was all anyone hated about new super mario bros then… theyre stupid. the ‘new’ series wasnt that interesting as games but this game isnt that much better.
im not thinking anyone needs to hate this game or like the 'new' series or anything. i enjoyed this and had lot of fun but i just find it silly seeing people act like this normal ass mario game is some groundbreaking return to form when in reality not much has fundamentally changed in a major way. (and thats fine with me for now)
like ideally id love for the gameplay of a 2d mario to be designed like the game celeste but... oh well.
the new art style is fine didnt care for it much at first but its grown on me.
the character animations are so fun and charming. mario is more adorable and cute than ever lol
the arab desert world is cool.
love that you can turn off the flowers voice.
but what if i said i kept the flowers voice on?! what then?! when you mute him in the setting he’s like ‘was it something i said?’ and i was like ok thats funny lol you know you’re gonna be seen as annoying so i can accept you now. but theyre actually not even annoying to me and made me laugh a lot. oops! it turns out it was everyone else telling me to hate them who was annoying all along actually! these stupid flowers just reminded me that its truly not that fukin serious all the time lol cant we all just have some silly harmless fun? i will. enjoy being miserable or whatever tho. cant relate.
sighhhh alright im not crazy here. mario didnt used to be this easy. in the old games (that everyone says this is returning to) you had to actually practice more and ahem Git Gud to progress and i liked that because i loved being able to come back to them when i got older and better at games. it felt so cool to beat games after while rather than how it is now where youre just being handed everything all at once and then you never play the game again. thats lame.
i dont hate a game for wanting to be more accessible but this game almost crosses a line of forcing everyone to play on easy mode.
i think the first levels focused too much on being a walkthrough comedy theatre rather than an actual platformer game.
the wonder gimmicks often arent very difficult theyre just flashy and silly.
the difficulty star ratings for levels makes it more obvious how easy the game is lol
its weird to me that the main game is easy but then they add badges and easy characters on top of that… are people really that bad at playing mario??? whatever. its fine.
i just wish i wasnt so often forced to play on easy with so much stuff to make the game just a borderline walking simulator.
its nice that badges are optional as a form of a difficulty option thats appreciated but it’s annoying how it asks you to pick one before every level or manually reject the offer so its hard to resist the help when its offered. every. single. time.
but it is nice the game doesnt drag you back to the map screen when you die and keeps letting you try the level again.
its annoying when you set the badges manually because when you change them you forget you dont have a certain badge you previously had and it messes things up based on your expected powers.
powerups change your character’s appearance but the badges are invisible (one of them literally🙄) so you never can see which one you have equipped unless youre using it.
overall the badges shouldve just been permanent powerups or just normal question block powerups. 2d mario doesnt need to be this customizable as the encouraged default. only as an easy mode option.
maybe different characters couldve gotten access to different action badges as powerups?
1. mario parachute cap
2. luigi floating high jump
3. peach spin jump
4. daisy grappling vine
5. yellow toad wall climb jump
6. blue toad crouch jump
7. toadette dolphin kick
8. yoshis timed high jump
9. nabbit fast dash
boost badges should be another easy mode option.
and the expert badges shouldve just been wonder seed gimmicks.
the elephant powerup is fine but so was the flying squirrel fuck off i dont wanna hear anyone praise the elephant but bash the squirrel suit. shut the fuck up.
the drill is fine but like wasnt that a powerup in mario galaxy 2? whatever
the 3 collectable star coins in every level are now changed to purple flower coins to trick people into thinking this wasnt just ‘new super mario bros switch’ but i aint no dummy! lol
theyre too easy now because you can just run at them and die immediately and theyll be saved as if you collected them as long as you later beat the level in that play session. before you had a challenge of actually having to get them all with only the checkpoint being the save point. that shouldve been another difficulty setting.
removal of points and a timer is nice. that was always unnecessary clutter the games had out of tradition so im glad theyre willing to remove them and i never even noticed 99% of the time lmao
not running into others in multiplayer is great. this isnt smash bros. i hated the 'new' series for forcing me to unintentionally screw over ppl im playing with. idk maybe it couldve been a setting.
its dumb that everyone has to use the same badge in multiplayer
as usual idgaf about online shit and i never turned it on. its too temporary of gimmick because they’ll eventually shut down servers for it like they always do. not a fan of that kind of thing in games. it makes it too much of a temporary disposable product rather than something that matters and lasts
i wish this game used mario odyssey's 'coins as lives' system.
the game doesnt repeat its gimmicks too much which is appreciated.
the wonder seeds are funny but not always too challenging of gameplay most of the time. sometimes it doesnt feel like much actually changed with the gameplay to warrant the level looking different and it couldve just been a normal part of the level without any cutscene calling to your attention that its a wonder seed effect.
why is there a manual save button when the game autosaves anyways?
i hate that theres a limit of 999 purple coins because you need more than that to buy everything so you end up grinding for purples more than you should. shouldve gone up to 9999.
actually nevermind most of the crap you buy at the shops is a bunch of worthless online gameplay shit i never used. its just stupid grinding for nothing.
the houses at the beginning of each world is a waste of time when its just dialogue with no challenge but youre still rewarded with a collectable so why is the collectable there? i didnt even do anything to get it?!?!
the search party houses are too difficult and nonsensical. stop making invisible blocks a thing. its dumb.
the invisible levels is really stupid gameplay.
i wish the worlds had more secret routes like super mario world. the game has multi exit flagpoles but they dont often lead anywhere they just give you another collectable.
its also lame how some paths are unlocked by literally doing that same thing twice like walking in and out of a building.
it pretends to be nonlinear about halfway through the game but it still railroads you an encourages you to play in order by numbering the worlds and making you go out of your way to skip past levels.
i wish shining falls & fungi mines had a boss fight.
not having the koopa kids is disappointing.
its weird not having petey piranha in this given the games flower/plant theme.
not having kamek as a boss fight was disappointing since he does magic which wouldve been cool mixed with the wonder seed stuff.
the bowser jr fights were pretty repetitive. they shouldve had jr in the airships (the conveyor belt endings of those were too easy they needed a boss fight after) and then the koopas could be in the palaces with petey piranha & kamek as mini castle bosses. or bring back the bosses from nsmb ds.
or! just make new bosses and scrap bowser jr and the kooplings! this isnt the mushroom kingdom so it shouldve had a new antagonist.
the push for easy gameplay makes the star road levels too difficult because there wasnt enough of a gradual build in difficulty.
aesthetic nitpicks:
this shouldve been called 'super mario wonder' without the 'bros.' part. it just sounds better. but especially since theres only two known brothers that the bros title was originally referring to out of all these 12 characters lmao
i wish mario, luigi, peach, toads, daisy, & toadette had an easy mode option for their characters. like if you have an easy mode for kids its frustrating if they cant play as a main character and would be forced to be a weird dinosaur or an ugly rabbit thing. thats lame.
same for the reverse. i wish the yoshis and nabbit had a normal play option like the others.
i dont care for yoshi as a playable character. i much prefer him as a powerup tool.
why is light blue yoshi not called just blue yoshi. pointless detail.
normal yoshi should get color options like he does in mario kart 8 & smash bros.
rosalina, wario, and waluigi shouldve replaced the extra colored yoshis spots.
i dont care for nabbit. not maliciously i dont hate him but i dont need him to exist in this franchise either. i forget he’s a thing for whatever reason that he is.
the flagpoles shouldve been something new or just bring back the (under-utilized/underrated) ribbon gates from super mario world
i wish the poplins and talking flowers were themed different for each world.
the worlds are still themed like normal basically just the order has been rearranged a bit. the only newish world is the shining falls.
idc about this complaint tho im here for platforming gameplay but its stupid to act like this game is all that fresh. its just more detailed.
bowsers final world was kinda bland & forgettable. im sorry but nothing will top mario 3d worlds twist carnival world or odysseys japanese bowser castle.
props for trying tho i guess here instead of just going back to a lava world for bowser.
idk i expected another boss fight or something so when the game ended i was like oh thats it? ok whatever.
i hope this gets a dlc with a challenge mode like from mario bros u or a new world or levels or something.
again its a fine game. nothing fresh to me but it gets the job done. its accessible and inoffensive. and i appreciate the slightly different art design.
i still love it because as always nothing tastes quite as sweet as super mario :)
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nothing all that fresh. and thats fine i still had fun with it all as usual.
but its overrated. i should probably just ignore the annoying public consensus.. but too bad im engaging with it!
this just isnt the groundbreaking return to form that people are acting like it is.
yall clowns are still whining about the new super mario bros series being generic or whatever (calm down) but can we all just collectively get fucking real here? this game is just another one of those games but with some new branding and flashier animations and a talking flower to distract you from the fact that it plays basically the damn same. i liked the ‘new’ series but lbr this easily couldve been just ‘new super mario bros switch’.
if the aesthetics was all anyone hated about new super mario bros then… theyre stupid. the ‘new’ series wasnt that interesting as games but this game isnt that much better.
im not thinking anyone needs to hate this game or like the 'new' series or anything. i enjoyed this and had lot of fun but i just find it silly seeing people act like this normal ass mario game is some groundbreaking return to form when in reality not much has fundamentally changed in a major way. (and thats fine with me for now)
like ideally id love for the gameplay of a 2d mario to be designed like the game celeste but... oh well.
the new art style is fine didnt care for it much at first but its grown on me.
the character animations are so fun and charming. mario is more adorable and cute than ever lol
the arab desert world is cool.
love that you can turn off the flowers voice.
but what if i said i kept the flowers voice on?! what then?! when you mute him in the setting he’s like ‘was it something i said?’ and i was like ok thats funny lol you know you’re gonna be seen as annoying so i can accept you now. but theyre actually not even annoying to me and made me laugh a lot. oops! it turns out it was everyone else telling me to hate them who was annoying all along actually! these stupid flowers just reminded me that its truly not that fukin serious all the time lol cant we all just have some silly harmless fun? i will. enjoy being miserable or whatever tho. cant relate.
sighhhh alright im not crazy here. mario didnt used to be this easy. in the old games (that everyone says this is returning to) you had to actually practice more and ahem Git Gud to progress and i liked that because i loved being able to come back to them when i got older and better at games. it felt so cool to beat games after while rather than how it is now where youre just being handed everything all at once and then you never play the game again. thats lame.
i dont hate a game for wanting to be more accessible but this game almost crosses a line of forcing everyone to play on easy mode.
i think the first levels focused too much on being a walkthrough comedy theatre rather than an actual platformer game.
the wonder gimmicks often arent very difficult theyre just flashy and silly.
the difficulty star ratings for levels makes it more obvious how easy the game is lol
its weird to me that the main game is easy but then they add badges and easy characters on top of that… are people really that bad at playing mario??? whatever. its fine.
i just wish i wasnt so often forced to play on easy with so much stuff to make the game just a borderline walking simulator.
its nice that badges are optional as a form of a difficulty option thats appreciated but it’s annoying how it asks you to pick one before every level or manually reject the offer so its hard to resist the help when its offered. every. single. time.
but it is nice the game doesnt drag you back to the map screen when you die and keeps letting you try the level again.
its annoying when you set the badges manually because when you change them you forget you dont have a certain badge you previously had and it messes things up based on your expected powers.
powerups change your character’s appearance but the badges are invisible (one of them literally🙄) so you never can see which one you have equipped unless youre using it.
overall the badges shouldve just been permanent powerups or just normal question block powerups. 2d mario doesnt need to be this customizable as the encouraged default. only as an easy mode option.
maybe different characters couldve gotten access to different action badges as powerups?
1. mario parachute cap
2. luigi floating high jump
3. peach spin jump
4. daisy grappling vine
5. yellow toad wall climb jump
6. blue toad crouch jump
7. toadette dolphin kick
8. yoshis timed high jump
9. nabbit fast dash
boost badges should be another easy mode option.
and the expert badges shouldve just been wonder seed gimmicks.
the elephant powerup is fine but so was the flying squirrel fuck off i dont wanna hear anyone praise the elephant but bash the squirrel suit. shut the fuck up.
the drill is fine but like wasnt that a powerup in mario galaxy 2? whatever
the 3 collectable star coins in every level are now changed to purple flower coins to trick people into thinking this wasnt just ‘new super mario bros switch’ but i aint no dummy! lol
theyre too easy now because you can just run at them and die immediately and theyll be saved as if you collected them as long as you later beat the level in that play session. before you had a challenge of actually having to get them all with only the checkpoint being the save point. that shouldve been another difficulty setting.
removal of points and a timer is nice. that was always unnecessary clutter the games had out of tradition so im glad theyre willing to remove them and i never even noticed 99% of the time lmao
not running into others in multiplayer is great. this isnt smash bros. i hated the 'new' series for forcing me to unintentionally screw over ppl im playing with. idk maybe it couldve been a setting.
its dumb that everyone has to use the same badge in multiplayer
as usual idgaf about online shit and i never turned it on. its too temporary of gimmick because they’ll eventually shut down servers for it like they always do. not a fan of that kind of thing in games. it makes it too much of a temporary disposable product rather than something that matters and lasts
i wish this game used mario odyssey's 'coins as lives' system.
the game doesnt repeat its gimmicks too much which is appreciated.
the wonder seeds are funny but not always too challenging of gameplay most of the time. sometimes it doesnt feel like much actually changed with the gameplay to warrant the level looking different and it couldve just been a normal part of the level without any cutscene calling to your attention that its a wonder seed effect.
why is there a manual save button when the game autosaves anyways?
i hate that theres a limit of 999 purple coins because you need more than that to buy everything so you end up grinding for purples more than you should. shouldve gone up to 9999.
actually nevermind most of the crap you buy at the shops is a bunch of worthless online gameplay shit i never used. its just stupid grinding for nothing.
the houses at the beginning of each world is a waste of time when its just dialogue with no challenge but youre still rewarded with a collectable so why is the collectable there? i didnt even do anything to get it?!?!
the search party houses are too difficult and nonsensical. stop making invisible blocks a thing. its dumb.
the invisible levels is really stupid gameplay.
i wish the worlds had more secret routes like super mario world. the game has multi exit flagpoles but they dont often lead anywhere they just give you another collectable.
its also lame how some paths are unlocked by literally doing that same thing twice like walking in and out of a building.
it pretends to be nonlinear about halfway through the game but it still railroads you an encourages you to play in order by numbering the worlds and making you go out of your way to skip past levels.
i wish shining falls & fungi mines had a boss fight.
not having the koopa kids is disappointing.
its weird not having petey piranha in this given the games flower/plant theme.
not having kamek as a boss fight was disappointing since he does magic which wouldve been cool mixed with the wonder seed stuff.
the bowser jr fights were pretty repetitive. they shouldve had jr in the airships (the conveyor belt endings of those were too easy they needed a boss fight after) and then the koopas could be in the palaces with petey piranha & kamek as mini castle bosses. or bring back the bosses from nsmb ds.
or! just make new bosses and scrap bowser jr and the kooplings! this isnt the mushroom kingdom so it shouldve had a new antagonist.
the push for easy gameplay makes the star road levels too difficult because there wasnt enough of a gradual build in difficulty.
aesthetic nitpicks:
this shouldve been called 'super mario wonder' without the 'bros.' part. it just sounds better. but especially since theres only two known brothers that the bros title was originally referring to out of all these 12 characters lmao
i wish mario, luigi, peach, toads, daisy, & toadette had an easy mode option for their characters. like if you have an easy mode for kids its frustrating if they cant play as a main character and would be forced to be a weird dinosaur or an ugly rabbit thing. thats lame.
same for the reverse. i wish the yoshis and nabbit had a normal play option like the others.
i dont care for yoshi as a playable character. i much prefer him as a powerup tool.
why is light blue yoshi not called just blue yoshi. pointless detail.
normal yoshi should get color options like he does in mario kart 8 & smash bros.
rosalina, wario, and waluigi shouldve replaced the extra colored yoshis spots.
i dont care for nabbit. not maliciously i dont hate him but i dont need him to exist in this franchise either. i forget he’s a thing for whatever reason that he is.
the flagpoles shouldve been something new or just bring back the (under-utilized/underrated) ribbon gates from super mario world
i wish the poplins and talking flowers were themed different for each world.
the worlds are still themed like normal basically just the order has been rearranged a bit. the only newish world is the shining falls.
idc about this complaint tho im here for platforming gameplay but its stupid to act like this game is all that fresh. its just more detailed.
bowsers final world was kinda bland & forgettable. im sorry but nothing will top mario 3d worlds twist carnival world or odysseys japanese bowser castle.
props for trying tho i guess here instead of just going back to a lava world for bowser.
idk i expected another boss fight or something so when the game ended i was like oh thats it? ok whatever.
i hope this gets a dlc with a challenge mode like from mario bros u or a new world or levels or something.
again its a fine game. nothing fresh to me but it gets the job done. its accessible and inoffensive. and i appreciate the slightly different art design.
i still love it because as always nothing tastes quite as sweet as super mario :)
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>>>>>>>>>>> smash bros melee
2016
am i taking a star off because i cant marry gus the bartender?
well yes!
well yes!
2019
a haunted town setting mightve worked better for the theming. its kinda dumb when they run out of ideas for the hotel and start doing random locations like why is there a museum and a movie studio in there? just have the elevator travel around the town teleporting to other buildings with the goal being to still get to the top of the hotel.
LOVE gooigi lmao
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LOVE gooigi lmao
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gens 1-3: best
gens 4, 6, 7: meh
gens 5, 8, 9: foul
do i actually like this game? or have i just stockholm syndromed myself into liking it because im so desperate for pokemon content beyond the anime and twitter fan art lol whatever
played on my iphone with that new emulator because fuck nintendo for not selling this game on the app store. theyre not only evil theyre also stupid lmao
gen 3 really had the peak art design for this series. i hate the faux 3d thing they did on the ds its tacky looking. and i dont have anything to add to the discourse of all those switch games and their complete lack of art design lol
it sucks that gen 2 wasnt remade for this gba era :/
gen 3 does a better job at soft rebooting the series than gen 5 because it doesnt get rid of the old pokemon it creates ones of equal quality alongside the new ones which i respect more. gen 5 had tacky ugly designs and the fact that they had to get rid of the old ones and force players to engage with the new ones is just cowardly.
maybe the gameplay is better and has more gimmicks i wouldnt know. but i dont really care much lol
trade evolutions and version exclusive pokemon are still incredibly stupid game design choices and ill never not fucking hate it. like i cant accept difficult gameplay but having some things be actually impossible without buying more shit or happening to have someone to interact with is so rotten.
also not being able to change the nicknames of traded pokemon is really stupid. god you just never can truly win with these stupid games! so much arbitrary bullshit from letting me fully enjoy them.
still dont understand why these games dont have the villain teams taking over the gyms and you have to liberate towns from them? why am i battling civilians its such boring motivation-less low stakes
the battle animations needed a speed up option. if you can do it for text speed then do it for the mundane battling it turns the games into such a fucking slog to grind through watching the same damn animations and navigating the same generic menus over and over again
fuck gens 4-9 for sticking to same battling gameplay schtick. this shouldve been the end of that routine. its so tired and played out and they never surpassed this game anyways.
gen 4 was when the series shouldve truly started to experiment with the gameplay more. they shouldve put their resources into that ranger series or something else. do the ds games even utilize the touch screen really in ways that matter? lol whatever
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gens 4, 6, 7: meh
gens 5, 8, 9: foul
do i actually like this game? or have i just stockholm syndromed myself into liking it because im so desperate for pokemon content beyond the anime and twitter fan art lol whatever
played on my iphone with that new emulator because fuck nintendo for not selling this game on the app store. theyre not only evil theyre also stupid lmao
gen 3 really had the peak art design for this series. i hate the faux 3d thing they did on the ds its tacky looking. and i dont have anything to add to the discourse of all those switch games and their complete lack of art design lol
it sucks that gen 2 wasnt remade for this gba era :/
gen 3 does a better job at soft rebooting the series than gen 5 because it doesnt get rid of the old pokemon it creates ones of equal quality alongside the new ones which i respect more. gen 5 had tacky ugly designs and the fact that they had to get rid of the old ones and force players to engage with the new ones is just cowardly.
maybe the gameplay is better and has more gimmicks i wouldnt know. but i dont really care much lol
trade evolutions and version exclusive pokemon are still incredibly stupid game design choices and ill never not fucking hate it. like i cant accept difficult gameplay but having some things be actually impossible without buying more shit or happening to have someone to interact with is so rotten.
also not being able to change the nicknames of traded pokemon is really stupid. god you just never can truly win with these stupid games! so much arbitrary bullshit from letting me fully enjoy them.
still dont understand why these games dont have the villain teams taking over the gyms and you have to liberate towns from them? why am i battling civilians its such boring motivation-less low stakes
the battle animations needed a speed up option. if you can do it for text speed then do it for the mundane battling it turns the games into such a fucking slog to grind through watching the same damn animations and navigating the same generic menus over and over again
fuck gens 4-9 for sticking to same battling gameplay schtick. this shouldve been the end of that routine. its so tired and played out and they never surpassed this game anyways.
gen 4 was when the series shouldve truly started to experiment with the gameplay more. they shouldve put their resources into that ranger series or something else. do the ds games even utilize the touch screen really in ways that matter? lol whatever
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2004
truly bizarre🤨 sick🥴 & twisted😵💫
i could probably write a whole philosophical essay or whatever on this games wacko energy but ill spare the pretentiousness of that for my own sake to not cringe myself to death 😂
but if i was a caveman id worship wario like a god
easily in my top 10 fav games.
favorite main menu ever.
its impressive how well this gimmick functions and is utilized so cleverly. very few minigames have troubles. its usually the boss levels that go on for a while like crygors and 9volts. i guess short interactions is the key to making gyro controls work best lol you have to give the thing a moment to reset itself for new movements
sadly not a game that works on roadtrips when the car is turning the game haha
i love getting a souvenir and just flinging the entire game sideways to the right with one hand to spin it instead of rotating it in place😂 theres such a flamboyant energy to the move like a hair flip or closing a flip phone lmao one time i accidentally flung my gameboy across the room doing that tho😬🙃
kat & ana levels are fun but too often i become aware when its just button mashing.
most of these minigames are super great but i hate the ones that dont let you experiment a bit first and you have to learn through failure. whatever
i sorta wish theyd pushed the gameplay another step further with more button + spin moves because after crygor the rest of the game just becomes harder levels with little gameplay change exactly? but its fine.
fuck wario de mambo. not a fan of rhythm games but im especially not a fan of badly designed ones. it lets you reset the gyro controls but its always so unclear the precise moment you need to start moving because it relys so heavily on the timing of the music when the easy of the 3 difficulties at least needed some meter or visual more than just the countdown. do i start twisting on 1 or after 1? its stupid and gives such little wiggle room for error. hate ittttttt
thank god for save states on an emulator
those elevator monkeys still terrify me. such nightmare fuel… lmao i hate monkeys but the game uses them for the freak factor so i respect it lmao
100%-ing this game feels more satisfying to me than any other game ever
thank god people know how to emulate this on mobile now because nintendo is stupid and evil for not putting it on the app stores or the switch which has a fukin gba emulator! why am i paying them for that thing?!?!😒
adding this to my list of media that gave me brain damage <3 <3 <3
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i could probably write a whole philosophical essay or whatever on this games wacko energy but ill spare the pretentiousness of that for my own sake to not cringe myself to death 😂
but if i was a caveman id worship wario like a god
easily in my top 10 fav games.
favorite main menu ever.
its impressive how well this gimmick functions and is utilized so cleverly. very few minigames have troubles. its usually the boss levels that go on for a while like crygors and 9volts. i guess short interactions is the key to making gyro controls work best lol you have to give the thing a moment to reset itself for new movements
sadly not a game that works on roadtrips when the car is turning the game haha
i love getting a souvenir and just flinging the entire game sideways to the right with one hand to spin it instead of rotating it in place😂 theres such a flamboyant energy to the move like a hair flip or closing a flip phone lmao one time i accidentally flung my gameboy across the room doing that tho😬🙃
kat & ana levels are fun but too often i become aware when its just button mashing.
most of these minigames are super great but i hate the ones that dont let you experiment a bit first and you have to learn through failure. whatever
i sorta wish theyd pushed the gameplay another step further with more button + spin moves because after crygor the rest of the game just becomes harder levels with little gameplay change exactly? but its fine.
fuck wario de mambo. not a fan of rhythm games but im especially not a fan of badly designed ones. it lets you reset the gyro controls but its always so unclear the precise moment you need to start moving because it relys so heavily on the timing of the music when the easy of the 3 difficulties at least needed some meter or visual more than just the countdown. do i start twisting on 1 or after 1? its stupid and gives such little wiggle room for error. hate ittttttt
thank god for save states on an emulator
those elevator monkeys still terrify me. such nightmare fuel… lmao i hate monkeys but the game uses them for the freak factor so i respect it lmao
100%-ing this game feels more satisfying to me than any other game ever
thank god people know how to emulate this on mobile now because nintendo is stupid and evil for not putting it on the app stores or the switch which has a fukin gba emulator! why am i paying them for that thing?!?!😒
adding this to my list of media that gave me brain damage <3 <3 <3
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