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Betonhaus said:
I knew that Brothership was all about connections, but i wasn't expecting the hamfisted allegory of how technology tears us apart by letting us live in our own little worlds.
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Yes, but chances are that hardly anyone would write an click bait article about it
 
Betonhaus said:
I knew that Brothership was all about connections, but i wasn't expecting the hamfisted allegory of how technology tears us apart by letting us live in our own little worlds.
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I'm a bit ashamed to say that this aspect of the narrative went completely over my head. The finale is one of the better ones in the series, but by the time I reached the final boss I was pretty burned out on the whole thing. OK game, but if it were twenty hours shorter it may have been one of the better M+L games.
 
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I'm a bit ashamed to say that this aspect of the narrative went completely over my head. The finale is one of the better ones in the series, but by the time I reached the final boss I was pretty burned out on the whole thing. OK game, but if it were twenty hours shorter it may have been one of the better M+L games.
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I'm at the point where Reclusa has just awakened and there was a LOT of cutscenes at this point. I'd pause to do side quests but I finished them all, and the only two challenges left aren't unlocked until later in the story. I kinda want to grind a bit as for most of the game I had Mario and Luigi's levels synchronized but then being split up ruined their balanced EXP, so I think I need to grind using Arc's telescope to equalize them again.
 
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A second barrel of monkeys has hit NSO.
 
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Never Scored said:
I think there are a lot of first party games that would have been great if they didn't force you to use touch screen controls. Same issue the Wii had, really.
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Okamiden felt like a better 3D Zelda game on the DS than Phantom Hourglass and Spirit Tracks.

Although I recently replayed Spirit Tracks on the drastic android emulator and honestly I kinda ended up liking the game more since controlling Link with your thumb on your phone felt surprisingly fine.
 
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I bought Sonic Superstars because it was on sale and I was looking for something light to play. For all the bluster I see about it being shit online, it's surprisingly solid. Buy it on sale, don't pay the full price for it or anything, but it's a solid 7/10 IMO. I guess a lot of the people complaining about the boss fights being too hard didn't grow up playing Sega Genesis games. The game literally gives you unlimited lives and a checkpoint before every boss. It is designed in the old style of "Fuck you. Get good" though. If you're like me you'll like that.
 
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Never Scored said:
I bought Sonic Superstars because it was on sale and I was looking for something light to play. For all the bluster I see about it being shit online, it's surprisingly solid. Buy it on sale, don't pay the full price for it or anything, but it's a solid 7/10 IMO. I guess a lot of the people complaining about the boss fights being too hard didn't grow up playing Sega Genesis games. The game literally gives you unlimited lives and a checkpoint before every boss. It is designed in the old style of "Fuck you. Get good" though. If you're like me you'll like that.
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They're junk food games. Good stuff. I want that Sonic/Shadow Generations game. Not because it is good, but because it is junk food.
 
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Never Scored said:
I bought Sonic Superstars because it was on sale and I was looking for something light to play. For all the bluster I see about it being shit online, it's surprisingly solid. Buy it on sale, don't pay the full price for it or anything, but it's a solid 7/10 IMO. I guess a lot of the people complaining about the boss fights being too hard didn't grow up playing Sega Genesis games. The game literally gives you unlimited lives and a checkpoint before every boss. It is designed in the old style of "Fuck you. Get good" though. If you're like me you'll like that.
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It's a fine game, continues the streak of Sonic actually being decent the past few years. The final boss having instant kill attacks is a bit of a downer though.
 
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Never Scored said:
I bought Sonic Superstars because it was on sale and I was looking for something light to play. For all the bluster I see about it being shit online, it's surprisingly solid. Buy it on sale, don't pay the full price for it or anything, but it's a solid 7/10 IMO. I guess a lot of the people complaining about the boss fights being too hard didn't grow up playing Sega Genesis games. The game literally gives you unlimited lives and a checkpoint before every boss. It is designed in the old style of "Fuck you. Get good" though. If you're like me you'll like that.
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I grew up with the Genesis games and Superstars has much worse bosses. The Genesis bosses don’t have insta-kill moves that look the exact same as non-insta-kill moves. They don’t give you split-second vulnerability windows. They don’t have several seconds worth of i-frames so that, when you actually do manage to hit a boss multiple times, you only deal one hit because the game arbitrarily decides you’re not allowed to deal any more damage. They don’t have bosses that, even when they are easy, are a long boring slog to get through with a short repetitive loop of bootleg MIDI music. They don’t have kaizo moves that have zero telegraphing so the only way to avoid the attack is if you’ve already fought the boss enough times to memorize when the attack happens. The Super Sonic boss isn’t an RNG fest where you have to pray the game doesn’t decide to go half a minute straight without giving you any rings or chances to attack the boss while it sits in the background.

I’ve been playing Sonic games for most of my life, and Sonic’s final boss in Superstars was the single worst boss in the entire series. And then Trip’s final boss was even worse than that. And then Super Sonic’s final boss was even worse than that. There’s no “git gud” about it, these bosses are just complete fucking shit.
 
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Two Dollars said:
I grew up with the Genesis games and Superstars has much worse bosses. The Genesis bosses don’t have insta-kill moves that look the exact same as non-insta-kill moves. They don’t give you split-second vulnerability windows. They don’t have several seconds worth of i-frames so that, when you actually do manage to hit a boss multiple times, you only deal one hit because the game arbitrarily decides you’re not allowed to deal any more damage. They don’t have bosses that, even when they are easy, are a long boring slog to get through with a short repetitive loop of bootleg MIDI music. They don’t have kaizo moves that have zero telegraphing so the only way to avoid the attack is if you’ve already fought the boss enough times to memorize when the attack happens. The Super Sonic boss isn’t an RNG fest where you have to pray the game doesn’t decide to go half a minute straight without giving you any rings or chances to attack the boss while it sits in the background.

I’ve been playing Sonic games for most of my life, and Sonic’s final boss in Superstars was the single worst boss in the entire series. And then Trip’s final boss was even worse than that. And then Super Sonic’s final boss was even worse than that. There’s no “git gud” about it, these bosses are just complete fucking shit.
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A lot of games now rely on GOTCHA! bullshit to make the game harder. Really it is just poor design to clear a interior space, turn around and walk away and then get knifed in the back.

Looking at you, Black Mesa.
 
Two Dollars said:
I grew up with the Genesis games and Superstars has much worse bosses. The Genesis bosses don’t have insta-kill moves that look the exact same as non-insta-kill moves. They don’t give you split-second vulnerability windows. They don’t have several seconds worth of i-frames so that, when you actually do manage to hit a boss multiple times, you only deal one hit because the game arbitrarily decides you’re not allowed to deal any more damage. They don’t have bosses that, even when they are easy, are a long boring slog to get through with a short repetitive loop of bootleg MIDI music. They don’t have kaizo moves that have zero telegraphing so the only way to avoid the attack is if you’ve already fought the boss enough times to memorize when the attack happens. The Super Sonic boss isn’t an RNG fest where you have to pray the game doesn’t decide to go half a minute straight without giving you any rings or chances to attack the boss while it sits in the background.

I’ve been playing Sonic games for most of my life, and Sonic’s final boss in Superstars was the single worst boss in the entire series. And then Trip’s final boss was even worse than that. And then Super Sonic’s final boss was even worse than that. There’s no “git gud” about it, these bosses are just complete fucking shit.
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It's not done in the exact same way, but the early Genesis games had tons of cheap bullshit. For example, when you play Sonic 2 for the first time, there's often no way to anticipate the praying mantises and exploding star fish in Metropolis Zone. Similarly in the Marble Zone in Sonic 1, there are a ton of one hit deaths out of nowhere. In the bonus stages in Sonic 2, you have little hope of anticipating where mines are going to be until you've played through the game a few times. Again in Sonic 2, you have to fight a boss before the last boss, hit the last boss well over 10 times, and you can't get hit once because there are no rings. There are also no saves, so if you run out of lives, tough shit, you have to go through the entire game again.

I mean, it's all subjective and I'm not going to defend what I would describe as an enjoyable, low b-tier experience to the death or anything... if you don't like it, you don't like it. I just think it's a bit revisionist to pretend cheap deaths and playing until you memorize patterns was not a huge part of the early series. I think what has happened is they made an actual S-tier Sonic game without the cheap bullshit when they made Sonic Mania and it set a high standard for modern 2D Sonic that they will never come close to again.
 
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I mean lets be real, if Sonic 1 and 2 didn't send you back to the start after a game over they'd both be beaten in about 90 minutes without really experiencing the fun of learning how to expertly control Sonic.
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I had these games as a child.

Everyone knew the button combo to do the level select. The purpose of that game over wasn't to fuck with you, it was to fuck with people renting games. If you owned it you had written down (or memorized) to input up, down, left, right, A, start.
 
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Baraka Obama said:
I had these games as a child.

Everyone knew the button combo to do the level select. The purpose of that game over wasn't to fuck with you, it was to fuck with people renting games. If you owned it you had written down (or memorized) to input up, down, left, right, A, start.
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And if you were super cool, you also knew about Up C Down C Left C Right C for Debug mode.

Shit was basically god mode that got you through the tough shit and helped you memorize the game layout better, since this was before level maps on the internet were a thing.

that, and it was fun fucking around with the game sticking shit all over the place.
 
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