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The best Metroid game in terms of gameplay. Takes every evolution in game mechanics the series has had, polishes them, and adds a few more to keep moving forward. The best boss fights in the series. I applaud Nintendo for not being afraid to make this game aimed at Metroid veterans, as opposed of trying to make everything accessible to newcomers and their classic "get everyone to the credits" philosophy. It was the right amount of challenging for me. Thank you. It's only weakness is the music, it doesn't hit as good as the series is accustomed to.

Played the whole thing. My main issue with this game is that I don't like and can't relate with the protagonist. He's always doing and saying things I would not. The game also wasted a lot of time with nonsense. It lets you click on things like a point-and-click adventure game but 99% of the time is nothing or nothing interesting. Lots of scenes that go nowhere and could be cut from the game. Psyncing into somnia, the main aspect of the game, is so unreliable I don't understand why they use it at all. The humor is really bad, mostly jokes about p0rn, or jokes about words that rhyme or sound alike. It TRIES to be clever all the time with words, so a lot of it is completely untranslatable to English. The game does a good job in getting you to suspect everyone, but at the end the culprit's identity is not at all surprising, what's "surprising" is how he/she did it that had you suspecting other people. I put "surprising" in quotes because you spend most of the game trying to guess, but this is futile, because the information that point to the real culprit is not revealed till the end. There are Deus Ex Machinas like that pulled at the end, where characters and fictional scientific facts that explain a twist are not revealed until that moment. It's cheap.

Red Dead Redemption is a generational game. You play it and you realize why Ubisoft's games feel so shallow. It should have AT LEAST 96 Metacritic. My concern is not the user score, but the critics. Since when do the critics judge a game's effort, performance, or price? The've never cared for any of that, but they do now because this is a 2011 game re-released without paying tribute (censorship) to "the moden audience". This masterpiece needs no retouching, it still begs you to stop and appreciate the magnificent vistas. The way remasters and remakes are being handled these days, leaving it untouched is a magnificent thing.

As a remaster it might be the best and a standard setter for a game of this generation. It enhances what are my favorite features of this game which are its atmosphere and immersion. Everywhere you turn you see an artwork made by a designer who brilliantly nailed the aesthetic of a meld of ancient alien architectures, futuristic space technology, and foreign nature, all in claustrophobic environments. Every room looks unique and not just copy pasted textures. The 60fps just ads even more to the immersion. The remaster also brings in control options that are up to standard with modern console FPS games, but that only reveals more that Metroid Prime is weak an FPS and not comparable to games such as Halo or Time Splitters. The guns shoot and switch slow. Features such as autolock and projectile path corrections show it wasn't serious as an FPS. The puzzles are not challenging whatsoever for neither skill or brain teasers. The scanning visor points everything out to you and imo slows the game down. The challenging and rewarding elements of this game come in what the game is more criticized for by its critics (not me) : it's exploration. You unlock new abilities and you rack your brain to figure out where these new abilities could be put to use in places you've already been to unlock newer paths and more abilities. That is what this game, and almost all metroidvanias, are mostly all about. The map is not so big so as backtracking and having to remember things is a huge problem. The writing may be the worst thing about it. You acquire the lore by scanning things, which is annoying. It's full of contradictions and is not clear whether your acquired equipment was left to you by the Chozo or you're stealing from the Space Pirates. Attempts at giving texts spiritual and scientific lingo are terrible and just make everything more unclear and hard to read. Nevertheless I think this game's atmosphere, immersion, and metroidvania gameplay make it a superb game overall and this is a remarkable remaster.

Final Fantasy VI is a masterpiece that is still better played in its SNES form rather than this Gatorade Frost looking remake. They thought: "The games look too dated for younger audiences so lets make them look as if they're dated ON PURPOSE like the indie games do". How on Earth does making the sprites less detailed make them better? Nobody on the original dev team ever said "Let's make this game look pixelated as hell". Pixels were not the aesthetic you got when you played it through an old television, which is why a proper remaster of this game would be to add more detail, rather than taking it away, while being careful to stay true to the original look while not entering RPG Maker/Mobile game territory like the last remake did. None of the "improvements" are necessary enough to play this version instead. An HP bar and restored content from the original Japanese version would've been nice too. This was just Square Enix being lazy, ONCE AGAIN, with a re-release of an old classic.

Very charming, very addicting, very well-made. It was cool to experience a 3D Mario made in HD, 60fps, and modern lighting. The problem is that about 97% of this game was not challenging at all. Out of 880 moons, maybe 15-20 put up a challenge. Moons lying everywhere: In the dirt, in the grass, under rocks, buying them with coins (why?). Not many moments that raise your blood pressure. Even the special level was a long string of easy segments. The hard-mode bosses is what should've been the normal. Mario's movement is the most mistake-forgiving and easy to execute to date. Controlling creatures with the cap was great, but so many missed opportunities to do cool challenges with them. Balloon World also punishes you for being too good. People don't bother with hard balloons because the risk-reward and ranking system favor the easy ones. Overall it's GREAT if you consider it more of an adventure game that won't scratch that action-platforming itch. This Mario game is more Zelda-like than Breath of the Wild, which went the survival crafting route. Devs will change a franchise to a completely different genre and get praised for "innovating". In the end, Odyssey is accessible for the Animal Crossing audience and recommended for beginners. Mario 64 remains KING.

I've been trying to figure out why all the other versions of this game have great reviews except this one. None of the written reviews explain what they think is wrong with this particular version. They're all from people who don't like the game overall, which is fair. This port doesn't have any more issues than the other platforms'. Yes, if you can, it's preferable to play any other version, but this version is more than acceptable if you want or have to play it on Switch, and it's SURPRISINGLY close to the PS4 version. They really pulled a rabbit out of a hat with this port. It's solid 30fps, even in combat. I played over 100 hours using joycons. Get this with confidence. My other guess is that players from other platforms were angry because this version offers costumes that are exclusive to this version and came to brigade the reviews, or Nintendo's childish audience really doesn't like how gloomy and mature this game is idk.