It should be, but practically all these review outlets dug their own graves with years of score bloat that they were all too happy to push in order to mollify advertisers and fanboys of various stripes. They claim that 5/10 is average, but if you start comparing scores to the actual sentiment in the reviews, a 7 is very often average and anything below that is varying degrees of badness.
How? There's two modes; Mario and Lakitu, and both of them you are free to control them however you like.
Mode? I just remember it having c-buttons that jump the camera around at imperfect angles. It only ever mattered to me in the mountain level with monkeys and the magic carpet stage, but it really was a hassle at times.
Does it?
Only problems I have with the 64 controller is the stick falling apart (obviously), and how it became too small after I grew up and it's not comfortable like it was when I was a kid. That controller was just perfect when I was still in my single-digit years.
N64 instruction manuals all had those pictograms to tell you how to hold the controller for that particular game. Almost everything I had growing up was the one where your left hand's on the middle handle.
I haven't held one in well over a decade probably, but even as an adult I remember it being fairly comfortable. The sticks were pretty prone to breaking though.
I think I remember that, but I was just mocking the notion that it's complicated to hold. Yeah, most games seemed to use the middle prong.
I swear anyone who says this either never played those games or is remembering them with such rose-tinted glasses that they're effectively blind. You didn't have to control the camera, but the price you paid was not being able to see anything half the time, constantly waiting for the camera to catch up with your character, getting stuck inside level geometry, not being able to judge position and/or distance accurately, and having sudden unexpected camera movements get you killed on a regular basis.
I remember that, and tried to deliberately avoid games with bad cameras. I did a pretty good job of it.
I didn't play very many 3D games on PSP. I didn't even get far in the GTAs. PSP was at its best with emulation and stuff like Lumines.
It depends on the game. OoT controlled fine without a second stick. I do hate babysitting a second stick constantly, but having a bad camera isn't much better.
Some felt unplayable like MGS, but simpler stuff like Ape Escape were good.
39 or so. But they seem to be an little bit on the short side, obviously
It looks fun. It does have some barbie dress-up vibes which might turn off people who bought into the whole "games for men must be edgy and macho" cringe.
Short is fine.
Pressing R switches the camera to Mario Mode where you're directly behind Mario like a 3rd person shooter.
