They put the OVERWORLD MUSIC BEHIND A $40 PAYWALL.
A basic function of any nintendo game which is the music has to be unlocked. So I'll judge this game for the price that it really costs:
$70 + $40 = $110 dollars. I was having fun with the game, considering a positive review, admiring the environment and overall immersiveness. When I noticed a basic feature was locked behind a paywall I just couldn't continue. $110 dollars is just ludicrous for a game that you can complete in less than 15 hours and that you can 100% in less than 20 hours. You're paying the price of two AAA games roughly for this short game that has very low replayability since it's mostly on-rails. Graphics are decent and art design is very beautiful, but it honestly looks like a 10 year old game, RDR2 looked at least a generation better than this.
I still can't understand where the budget went, for a AAA game it has very little voice acting, dated graphics that just get carried by artistic design, stiff controls and a very dated checkpoint system. Is basically a game that should and could have come out in the WiiU for $60, not a premium $110 game in 2025. The formula is very reminiscent of BOTW, so it could very well have been released as a WiiU game, just with the caveat that both BOTW and TOTK have at least triple the content of this Metroid thing. To sum it up: This game is fun and it has beautiful artistic design, but it's a short mostly linear game with zero replay value. It's already grossly overpriced at $70, but it really costs $110 (since you need to pay to unlock the soundtrack of the game) which makes it one of the most overpriced and greedy games we've seen by a relevant studio. This is probably one of the most outrageous anti-consummer moves I've seen nintendo make.
This game is inexcussably bad.
The graphics, world, physics, everything is like a bad PS2 game, but without voice acting
The story is boring, bad, the environment is just one area which has less depth than N64 collect-a-thon games, yep, the first games made for 3D consoles in 1996 had worlds better built and designed than this.
The battle system is the only thing where it could have interesting gameplay. But it doesn't work. You can catch everything with just one strong pokemon since they can be caught after fainting. There's no strategy, the missions are terrible, there's no variety.
I've played a lot of pokemon games, not every single one, but even gameboy games had better story and more engaging gameplay. If you like Pokemon play ANYTHING ELSE before this. Any mainline pokemon game is better. Any monster catching game will be better than this.
The best snowboarder game of the 32 bit consoles (not counting n64 here). The game series introduced many concepts that became staple in the genre, and Cool Boarders 3 was the definitive installment of the series on the PSX, although some regard Cool Boarders 2 as better.
This game was incredible for the era. The most complex action game we played were stuff like pitfall, stealth was not really a thing, and then tenchu comes and youre a ninja that can zip up in 3D. It blew our minds.
The smackdown series games were very fast and fun compared to the other wrestling franchises, that focused on a much slower and methodic game play. SmackDown 2 had easy to memorize moves and intuitive fighting system and a story mode with custom characters was like a dream come true. For the era it looked amazing, although it didn't age the best.
An amazing rhythm game for the era.
Very refreshing in the arcade era where everything was about moving arrows, this had a different take. The characters were so charming and the "battle system" was great.
It's a small game and very inexpensive so it's not that long.
It has a unique charm to it and you can spend a couple of hourse wandering around and finding new stuff to do. It gets a high score because it's like nothing I've played before, it has elements but on it's own is like a new thing. It reminds me of the beginning of the 3D games era where it wasn't clear cut how to make a 3D game.
Had a blast with this one but at some point it starts feeling empty. For a game that is "arcade" it lacks stuff like nitro or turbo that could add a little bit. Also, it feels like the development became lazy as this is not much more than FH4. Not a bad game but could have been better.
I played after a couple of years of release and it was very interesting.
It's one of the few games that has made me feel eerie from the vast size of the space and the sense of being truly lost.
A little addictive at times even, although it get's old at some point.
They added so much stuff to do (and continue to) that probably I can come back and spend another 20 hours in this universe.
I really appreciate what this game did. In a very stale era with strictly formulaic games, this town management, creep defense + hack and slash game just gives me hope on what is technically possible mechanics-wise in the modern era.
And it does soe looking really good and immersive through well done graphics.
I always imagined a game like this, where you could draw the platforms, but this is like in real time with some sonic-like mechanics and kirby power steals of course.
I instantly loved this game.
This is a magnum opus in game mechanics, wrapped with very memorable characters and unbeatable charm. Creativity at it's highest.
The gameplay is well thought and the courses are very good. It introduces great new mechanics, the graphics and animations are top notch.
However, the content is very lackluster for the price. The open world feels more empty than Forza and that's saying something, the online mode is just bad. The addition of inter-race tracks is maybe a fun novelty for a while but the competitive crowd want's nothing to do with it.
I have to substract a point for the price, this game is grossly overpriced for what it is now. I expect them to add content later for free, after all we've played for a day one DLC pack already within the asking price. Dissappointing after more than 10 years waiting for a Mario Kart title.
An absolute masterpiece. From the graphics that are simply amazing for the console to the mechanics and gameplay, this game introduces so many creative elements it will feel overwhelming. The story is also interesting, it has some cliché elements but I didn't want to skip it.
And it's meant to overwhelm you at first, the combat is hard to master with some soulslike moments, but it's ultimately score based like Bayonetta. This means you will be barely hanging on the first gameplay and then you can go back and ace everything.
I really liked this game despite being first perosn, there were a lot of cool ideas, the world is great. If anything I wish it was longer, but it's a lot of fun and introduces a myriad of cool mechanics like it's usual with Bioshock.
This was one of the first game I finished without doing the whole story and just skipped to the final boss. I loved it when it was actually possible to beat it despite being grossly underpowered, just through sheer ability. The mechanics become a little broken at times but it's one of the most satisfying games I've played.
An amazing action RPG.
The story is engaging, it has interesting mechanics for map development, the battle is a little basic for 2016 but it's true to the Ys formula so it's more or less ok. Maybe a downside is the difficulty, it's was relatively easy for me and I played my first run on Hard. Most of the time it takes to complete is traversal and sometimes feels like padding, however all this sections are actually important for you to master the game, understand the abilities and get good. Bosses will not be very challenging if you've played soulslike stuff, the patterns are much easier to understand and much more telegraphed. And your character moves very quick and nimble, so it acts more like a 3D platformer than a 3D action combat game in this regard.
A great roguelike 3D space combat game. Probably the first of it's kind,
I spent a lot of hours into this, every run is challenging and getting to the end feels like a real accomplishment where you get good and your skills are rewarded. It has some design flaws like the repetitive nature of some stuff, the randomness that sometimes feels unfair.
One of the best games of 2022.Simple gameplay mechanics, incredible depth and hidden stuff, lot's of extra content added after they received love from the public.
I had to substract one point because the game got unapproachable at some point that they added too much stuff and it became more like bloated than a grower game. I didn't understand anything after not playing for a couple of months and never could pick it up later.
A masterpiece deckbuilding roguelike.
Easy to pick up, hard to master. Anyone can understand it and get hooked, then appreciate the depth and care that went into this.
I will probably get this for the Switch to play portable as well.
One of the best 2D platformers of all time.
Very difficult and completely fair.
All the mechanics from the previous donkey kong returns but on steroids. It will test everything you have learned in the previous Donkey Kong games and it will be ruthless.
This game is the best spiritual successor to F-Zero or Wipeout.
I haven't followed the full evolution of speedster spaceship racing genre but this game feels like it has a lot of mechanics compared to the older redout.
For the price it's impossible not to recommend, you have a lot of content and it gets very challenging, it's easy to pick up but hard to master.
It's one of the best beat 'em ups of all time.
Yes, it's retro inspired, yes it has 16bit or 32bits era graphics, no, it isn't like a snes or 90s arcade game, but modernized with more complex controls (you have more buttons), abilities, combos, more hidden stuff.
Overall it's a game that evolves the classic arcade beat em up formula without destroying it but updating it enough to make it feel like a modern game.
A very nice remake, it's a really good game however it falls short compared to modern RPGs. In the SNES era it would get a higher score, but nowadays it can't justify full price for what.
An amazing game.
Outstanding music, beautiful graphics, very original design, interesting story, memorable characters and charm, innovative gameplay.
It would be perfect if the platforming and traversal wasn't so arbitrary and finnicky, sometimes hidden objects are REALLY cryptic to get because it's not very clear what is a wall, what are platforms, what are ledges, etc.
I got this because it was by Devolver Digital, a mistake.
Boring, pretentious, criptic in a bad way, slow, intentionally padded to enlengthen it for no reason other than showcase the graphics and artwork that honestly are nothing to be amazed at. I felt nothing more than regret while playing this.
More than a game it feels like an overpriced DLC for Spider Man 1.
And as most DLC, the story is a lot worse than the main Spider Man game. Without spoiling anything I can say by the end I didn't even understand the motivations between the main antagonist, it's so badly written it destroys all the immersion and feels like padding and fighting for the sake of it. I would give it less score but the gameplay, graphics and performance are pretty fun, it expands on some new abilities although the mechanics remain very close to the original.
Wouldn't get it for full price, on sale maybe just to know what happens between Spiderman 1 and 2.
I don't get why this 'game' had so much praise.
It's well acted and can get you somewhat into the story but it's not a game, it's more of a movie made in a precary game engine with low budget. It can only shine on the merit of the story and I couldn't care less about zombie thrillers so it's a No from me.
The game is beautiful and looks ridiculously expensive to make, every dialogue is acted, every face is digitally mapped, it's practically a digitized movie. And the gameplay is actually fun. The problem I have is the reliance on sheer amount of resources wasted in a pretty linear game with almost no replayability. It's not even a long game. And it's not like it doesn't have unnecessary padding, there's many times a platforming section is so similar to the one before you feel like you're going in circles.
I've had fun with this game, however it feels like something I could have played on a Gamecube or a PS3. In terms of mechanics, graphics or anything it's a game that was technically possible 20 years ago without any compromise and get a better score.
However, when you take into account stuff like Palworld which is like 4 generations better graphically, much more advanced in design and mechanics, this Pokemon game feels like 10% inspiration and genuine care and 90% lazyness and milking a franchise.
They're charging money for the instructions manual of a console that already had a big price bump.
And it's not even a good experience, it's just tedium, tests and a couple of 'barely' minigames. What a joke of a product.
It's a very good game but doesn't feel next-gen when you had Mario Odyssey in your earlier console.
In fact it feels like a Switch 1 game that had a graphical bump, like many other games. It's creative but as a collectathon the things to collect are not very well hidden, sometimes is just tilting the screen and making a hole, not much of skill based platforming. It does what Odyssey did but replacing skill with some tedium. I'm kind of dissappointed after a few days but whatever.
Great arcade racing game - Horizon but actually Fun Good graphics, not great since you can't go past 60 fps but you can work with that. The environments looks stunning, the visual design and effects are very immersive.
The gameplay is very fun, versatile with 4 types of vehicles but focusing on cars with rally, drift, drag, supercars and street racing. The physics are obviously arcade but comparable to Forza 5 with the addition of Nitro, still feels more realistic than NFS.
There's a lot of content for single player and a good playerbase for multiplayer.
If you come from the big desserted barren wastelands of Forza Horizon 4 or 5, the Hawaii island of Motorsport will feel like a cornucopia. The island itself is not that big in real life, so it feels like a realistic racing theme park that uses a lot of the islands' surface, making it a lot more coherent. You never have that feeling of a long travel that will be a chore just to get to the next race, because in the way there's a lot to see and do, and the playlists are somewhat connected so you don't have to traverse an empty map for hours to complete a mission.
A downside is the car quantity, it's limited compared to GT or Forza. Not many brands and just a few cars per brand.
In 2024 is my go to racing game after the Motorsport failiure and now that Horizon 5 playerbase is getting too low. I also recommend it over NFS Unbound since it has a higher player base and you get a lot more content than just street racing, although NFS has the unique elemnt of police chases (which gets old fast).
I gave it a chance, it's been almost half a year and the game is still in a broken state. AI is broken, leaderboards broken, career mode is broken, single player is broken, multiplayer is broken, penalty system broken, optimization on PC nonexistant, graphics terrible, car models are recycled trash from 20 years ago, limited amount of tracks and they look worse than forza motorsport 7.
Stay away forever, this is beyond repair.
Great game for what it is. I'm giving a score related to the value of the game, which is great. It's a short game, with no tutorials, very simple gameplay yet complex/creative enough to capture your attention for a couple of hours. If anything it was too short but you can't expect much more from an indie budget title, yet it was more rewarding than some AAA titles.
Stanley parable is amazingly executed for what it is. It needed no more, no less. It's a short innovative game with simple controls, no tutorial, great narrative. Groundbreaking.
Great game but the port is less than ideal. Having played and finished the original several years ago on the original system, this port feels very good but I can't help but feel the experience is a little bit different. For me this game was a solid 9 on the original system, but this port comes up like a wasted opportunity to get it perfect and just as a "good enough" attempt at a port. It feels emulated at times, not really ported, also they didn't go any extra mile to make it at least a little bit more compelling. Great music, quirky, very original concept still to this day, relaxing, unique, but feels like they just wanted to sell an emulated 'port' instead of really doing an effort to revive the Katamari experience. I still give it a very high score becasue I hope this sells well enough, so Bandai Namco wants to make a new sequel (and soundtrack!) for this great IP.
Highly addictive, well designed, entertaining, challenging, maybe a little bit unfair. I really like this game and would give it a 10 for what it is, however there's a flaw found in many rogue-likes: it requires a non-negligible amount of luck in order to do well in a run, so given you have the perfect strategy you might still need several runs in order to finish it so I had to substract 1 point from my score.
The best non-touhou shmup released this decade. I'm a fan of shmups, therefore I'm used to playing old games. However Dariusburst refreshed the genre and they nailed it. It carries everything that's good about the old games, improves on what is possible to but without ruining it. A perfect homage to the shmup genre.
Good game, carefully crafted, a good iteration on the well known franchise formula. What I disliked the most was the episodic way to release it. It could have been a great game but the publisher's greed made it a sour experience to purchase the game in this new episodic way.
The best D&D game I played until Divinity Original Sin 2. NWN was such a good game I had a hard time playing RPGs after 2007 because I was "spoiled" by it's story, charm, gameplay and character development, dropping many newer fantasy RPGs just after a few hours. It took like a full decade to surpass this masterpiece and to this day I recommend it to anyone that likes RPGs and hasn't tried it yet.
To this day still my favorite JRPG of all time. Everything in this game is 10/10 except for one aspect, it was rushed by the end. That means, the music, story, graphics, gameplay, artwork, design, everything is flawless. The development started more ambitious than FF7 and FF8 themselves, it was way more complex in story, gameplay and systems but it had to be rushed giving it a more abrupt second half (that should have been way longer). I hope this gets a proper remake somewhere in the future, where the original story gets realized and so the ending half is de-compressed to a comprehensible level.
By no means I'm an expert to fighting games but I usually finish all the story modes and play casually in the couch with friends. It must have been more than 10 years since I had this amount of fun with a fighting game, and all because of the masterpiece level character creation tool. By no means the core gameplay is boring, it's very good in fact with but lacks some of the satisfying sensation of the earlier entries, somehow I feel not as good when my hits connect. I'm not impressed nor dissatisfied by the mechanics, as I'm not a competitive player I can't really evaluate that aspects. As you may have gotten used to more flashy games such as Arc Systems', SC VI may feel a little bit plain, but try it regardless. I get that high res 2D hand made sprites are appealing but that would make it impossible for the best feature ever implemented on a fighting game to exist in the first play so I'm ok with the slighly less beautiful art-style. I lack the verbal prowess to convey the stupendous, prodigious, mind-blogging, formidable, inordinate, nipple-erecting, experience that is creating whatever abomination you decide on the character creation screen and then fighting against hordes of crossover human made fighters online. There has never been such a functional yet creatively resourceful custom character tool on a fighting game, and I dare to say that even having not tried all of them, that's the commitment of my appreciation for this addition to the game. If there's any developers, producers or designers of fighting games reading this, please know that THE CHARACTER CREATION TOOL IS NOW A GOD DAMN STANDARD AND YOU BETTER GET USED TO ADDING IT TO YOUR FUTURE GAMES AS OUR SPECIES DESERVES AND WILL ACCEPT NO LESS FROM NOW ON. DISREGARD OF THAT SENTIMENT WILL BE INTERPRETED AS A SIGN OF PURE DISRESPECT AND HATRED TOWARDS YOUR AUDIENCE AND SHALL BE SCORED ACCORDINGLY, NO EXCEPTION. That's it.
Terribly dated engine that, after a decade is still buggy and broken. The graphics by extension are also very sub-par. However we play Bethesda games not for the graphics or stability but because of the compelling characters and story. Well, this game doesn't have characters or a story, so it's basically a Fallout game without any of the features that made Fallout a good game. A lazy cashgrab built upon a dated engine that required no creativity and introduces nothing remarkable to the already saturated survival MMO genre.
