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There is so much to this game that I don't believe people who rate it less than a 7 have seriously tried playing it. The music is great and there are so many superb music tracks that you only get to listen to after a while of playing, the graphics are fun and the humor is questionable, but still charming somehow. The gameplay of this game feels so nice and polished, it's hard to describe. It feels horrible if your cats die during a run and that makes it special. There are all kinds of emotions you experience while playing this game. It has endless replayability and most importantly, it's a whole lot of fun!

[TLDR: It‘s a really interesting and satisfying experience. There is stuff that repeats intentionally. You‘ll have about 5-10 hours of very enjoyable playtime if you don‘t care about 100%. If you try to 100% this game without a guide/walkthrough expect a lot of repetition with trial and error after 3-4 hours playtime. It‘s very much worth it though. I highly recommend this game!] I‘ve put 15 hours into this game (didn‘t play the original game before) to do pretty much everything there is to do, yet other people seem to only have needed around 7-8 hours to manage 100% completion. This means after the first 3-4 hours into the game you‘ll probably run around trying to reach new places and interact with everything that seems even remotely plausible which is fun, but can get tedious, because you could end up with a lot of repetition. But that‘s the price of discovering things for yourself without a guide I guess. I was incredibly happy every time I discovered something new and it was such an amazing, interesting and satisfying experience overall. In hindsight I would suggest to play the first 4-5 hours without a guide and then look for hints online. I definitely recommend everyone to play this game!

I‘m having a blast with this game. It might be mostly nostalgia, but that‘s what I wanted (I believe that‘s what people generally want from a remake). They managed to make it feel almost exactly how I remember the games from my childhood. Graphics-wise it may not look as “advanced“ as Pokémon Sword/Shield but if you don‘t mind the chibi-look, which I actually really like, it looks really good. The male player character looks a little bit strange, but that doesn‘t deserve a 0/10 rating in my opinion. Referring to other user reviews, why ruin a perfectly fun old game by completely changing it? If you don‘t like playing exactly the same game with updated graphics and a few quality-of-life improvements (that are still true to the originals), then you shouldn‘t buy it. I mean, what do these people expect? That‘s what a remake is, right? This isn‘t a „lazy remake“. I’ve seen mostly superficial criticism in these user reviews which don‘t justify a 0/10 rating. Also, the games being too easy is always a subjective matter. It has some small issues, sure, but which game doesn‘t? I honestly found Pokémon Sword/Shield to be really bland and disappointing when they had released and found myself having more fun on my Nintendo DS playing my original copy of Pokémon Platinum. Now that I can replay the fourth Pokémon generation on the large screen in Full HD with some annoying things from the Nintendo DS versions of Pokémon Diamond and Pearl removed and some enhancements added, I‘m having a lot of fun again. In my opinion they delivered precisely what a fan of the old games would have wanted. They even added the Underground which is amazing! You can have so much fun playing these games either alone or with your friends. I absolutely recommend buying and trying out these remakes!

First of all I wouldn't recommend any parent to buy this game for their child or anyone for themselves. I regret having to write this review as I definitely wanted this game to be the best it could, just like the "professional" game critics wrote in their reviews, but Pokémon Sword and Shield just don't deserve to be praised like that. Not only did the developers of this game lie about making new models and animations for every Pokémon from scratch (which they didn't do, because they just reused the EXACT models and animations of the 3ds, which are really bad to nonexistent btw), but they also filled the game with filler cut-scenes, slow-animations and barely any story. There is no real story in these games. At least nothing with any love put into while creating it. After beating the game I felt disappointed and couldn't believe I'm done already. There is almost nothing fun to do except the obvious catching of pokémon and beating gyms. Catching pokémon was still a fun grind in the beginning, but the really bad animations and the obnoxious slow speed of the battles sort of overwrote most of the fun after a while, especially with the boring background battle music, which is the same in every battle, for a couple of exceptions later in the game. In contrast to almost all previous games before and including Pokémon Black & White which I've loved, this game was bland and felt generic. Except for the fact that you can now play Pokémon on a big screen which is exciting and all, there is just barely anything good to say about Pokémon Shield (and Sword). The things I did like were the new Pokémon (even if some of them aren't very creative or exceptionally well designed, but they honestly don't have to be in my opinion, they were still cool and looked like Pokémon) and the fact that they have ported the game to a not exclusively portable game console. The central characters introduced in these games like Hop, Leon, Bede and Marnie felt strangely awkward, fake and most importantly shallow and didn't convince me at all. During the little bit of story there is I didn't sympathize with any of these characters and felt indifferent towards them which is unlike the Pokémon games before Satoru iwata's unfortunate demise. If I could exchange the current developer stuff of Game Freak, I definitely would, because playing these honestly bad successors to my favorite game genre breaks my heart and I just kept playing because I hoped it would get better which it didnt. This is sad for Game Freak and I hope that they realize this themselves and improve in the future.

I played through the first Super Meat Boy game multiple times and reached 106% completion and I must say that after having played through Super Meat Boy Forever I'm disappointed. After first starting up the game the controls immediately felt noticeably limited in comparison to its predecessor. I don't necessarily think Super Meat Boy Forever is a bad game. I think it's a polished average game. What I don't understand is why they had to make the game an autorunner. If the only reason is to make it successful in the mobile community, I believe they've made a huge mistake. Now that the released game doesn't come across as very good, the mobile community won't even hear about it. I consider it a massive failure. Sure, now it's different from the first game, but it didn't have to be. People obviously liked it, so why change it in a way that's going to change everything people liked about it? They should have made this a spin-off title, like Super Mario Run for example and additionally, with more effort put into it, they should have made an even more challenging version of Super Meat Boy, polished it a little bit and call it Super Meat Boy 2 or Super Bandage Girl or something along those lines instead. Now that I've beaten the game, I don't feel the same replay value that I've felt after beating the first game, which is a tragedy in itself, as this game has generated levels and would in theory have an even greater replay value. What's bugging me most apart from the autorunner mechanic, is that the game feels like they've put a lot of effort into it, but it didn't work out in the end. To all the people still considering to buy this game, hoping it will still feel like the first Super Meat Boy: I wouldn't recommend buying or playing it, as I've had way more fun with other autorunners like Bit Trip Runner.