Great platforming, great combat, charming visuals, nifty design (refer to the first review).Įnter the Gungeon’s follow-up keeps all the original’s charm but plays more like an arcade game than a roguelike. As far as indie metroidvanias go, Guacamelee has always been more unique than its near-substitutes - so a lack of originality isn’t a demerit for its sequel. Guacamelee 2 is virtually the same game as its predecessor, with almost no improvements. It has the worst the best the worst ending I’ve ever seen. The story spreads out over about 4 hours of cinematics and is a bit of a mess. The rest of my time was split between exploring the game’s huge, visually repetitive levels, watching cutscenes, and playing lame mandatory mini-games. 3’s combat is the best in the trilogy - unfortunately, combat comprised only 50% of my playtime, being generous. Ni No Kuni will occasionally treat you to an exceptional animated cutscene from Studio Ghibli - frankly, if the game were not so visually charming, I would’ve given it a 1.īayonetta 3 is a bit of a mixed bag and you need to know what you’re getting into before picking this one up. The final boss is particularly awful about this since he has an attack that destroys your entire party in like two seconds and forces you to replay its first two phases. Ni No Kuni has an awful real-time battle system where you must manually select “Defend” if you don’t want to get literally one-shot by bosses. You’ll run around a painfully generic fantasy world recruiting monsters to defend you against scarier monsters, levelling and gearing up in the process. Ni No Kuni combines Dragon Quest with Pokémon. Ni No Kuni: Wrath of the White Witch ( 2) Note: Now that you can play the original version of this game through Switch Online (Includes New Secret Dungeon!), I don’t think there’s much reason to buy it.ĥ7. The dungeon builder is awful, but the game locks many important collectibles behind it. I often got stuck despite the surprisingly not-overbearing hint system. Gameplay- and design-wise, however, this is still a cryptic game from 1993. This remake features heavily improved graphics and an absolutely stunning revamped soundtrack. Awakening’s understated plot is simple, strange, and profound. Link’s Awakening has the strongest story in the series (bar Majora’s Mask) and should be experienced blind. The Legend of Zelda: Link’s Awakening ( 4) Speaking of, star coin grinding is unavoidable if you’re going for full completion: dull, but totally optional.ĥ6. The game is also stingy about disclosing per-level optional challenges, an annoying design decision that practically mandates replaying a single level multiple times for 100%. While Forgotten Land offers a lot of fresh gameplay, none of it is very difficult - even the post-game boss rush is a spring breeze. Levels are unswervingly creative, each riffing off a unique post-apocalyptic theme that the game absolutely nails (think Shiver Star from Kirby 64). The improvement between this Kirby game and HAL’s last is massive: it feels like Kirby was always meant to be a 3D platformer. If you’re not down for that, just take a moment to appreciate the outstanding music and move on. To get the most out of the story’s conclusion, you have to play the previous two 100+ hour games. The story reaches an emotional climax about two-thirds of the way through which I feel isn’t matched by the anticlimactic, unexplained and generally unearned ending. Switching classes weakens your characters until you grind their class level back up, a tedious process involving almost as much menu management as boring, repetitive enemy encounters. The class system is interesting, but ultimately fails because it doesn’t reward experimentation. Xenoblade Chronicles 3 is probably the worst of the three Xenoblade games (I haven’t played 2). The last part will be a list of games I've played that have been ported to the Switch, just to be thorough.įor reference, the scale looks something like this: If you're looking for a good recommendation, or you just like reading reviews, you've come to the right place! The penultimate part of my series of unsolicited opinions on all the Switch games I've ever played.
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