Fast Fusion
Yeah and HAL phones it in like 80% of the fucking time too. The new kirby was their first good game in ages. Nintendo’s second party studios like Camelot and IS and HAL and the rest are like a step above kusoge shops it just seems like they’re being tard wrangled by decent producers
I meant that as if you had to buy something extra just to actually play something; it just feels kind of weird. Although, with Paint, you still actually need an mouse.
Wut. Kirby has super consistent quality (for good or ill I guess). The only iffy Kirby games they've made are Squeak Squad and Star Allies, and the latter was still decent by the time they finished it with free updates.
I didn't play Robobot, but I'm thinking of the recent remake of the Wii remake of Dreamland, along with Star Allies, and the F2P stuff like Kirby Clash and the Dream Buffet game. At least HAL wasn't responsible for the Wii port. But Star Allies barely felt like a game to me, like a game with all the friction sanded off. It didn't make me happy or even mildly pleased, I felt a vague sense of regret at paying for it. The interval in between SA and Forgotten Land was barren and not exactly ambitious. It really lowered my estimation of the series for a few years there, and it eroded my confidence in HAL's ability to make and complete modern games people would be interested in. Forgotten Land did inspire some hope, they're at least still really interested in making good games unlike IS, Camelot, GameFreak, Nintendo Cube (just found out it's not ND Cube anymore) and most of the rest of Nintendo's second string.
I guess, you're not too far off, but also--who doesn't have a USB mouse?
Oh, I didn't play or consider the spin-off games, because they're just cheap spin-offs. I guess that could down your opinion if you played them to get your Kirby fill. The stretch of mainline games of Return to Dreamland, Triple Deluxe, and Robobot were all great, with Triple Deluxe being the relative weakest and Robobot the strongest. Star Allies was overly easy and monotonous because they didn't balance for the AI partners/multiplayer system at all, but the extra modes and boss rush were at least alright. Forgotten Land was great and trying something new. I don't know what your issue is with the Switch remake of Return to Dreamland exactly, it was fine enough to me. The remake portion of it didn't do anything that makes it better to play over the original, but the extra Magalor campaign was nice.
Camelot is just fucked unfortunately. I've heard their employee has dwindled to bare minimum to keep the lights on and one of the founders said something a few years ago about they didn't have the manpower and talent anymore to make another RPG like Golden Sun even if they really wanted to.
The Harbour Masters versions of OoT and MM are really solid, if you're willing to spelunk to find working copies: https://github.com/harbourMasters
The destruction mechanics in DK Bananza are only possible because of the Switch 2 hardware. Nintendo confirmed it themselves they couldn’t have made the game on Switch 1 hardware. It was most certainly a necessary upgrade for Nintendo.
I see. I'll take it as a recommendation to give it a try. From the Direct trailer I must admit that it just looked cheap and uninteresting to me. I never even played the original, I kinda missed Nintendo consoles aside from the DS until the Switch came out. Would you recommend Return to Dreamland? It can't be as simple as Star Allies, right? Maybe I should have given Return to Dreamland a bit more of a look, but I had splurged on the DKC Returns remake and felt it was pretty lame to remake it in Unity with a contractor as they did, the game does not feel quite right compared to TF. This made me a little wary about the other Wii ports/Unity remakes. I get why they did it, they had a whole 20 buck for a budget, they knew 2D DK wasn't going to sell, and Retro is all hands on deck trying to make MP 4 justify their decade + disappearing act.
Star Allies is by far the weakest of the modern Kirby games. The biggest issue is how they went about designing things for having 3 allies with you all the time, or failed to design for it. Levels tend to have really simple obstacles that can be solved with multiple powers, and every boss can be beaten braindead by just hanging back and letting your AI allies do most of the work. Even the hardest mode of the boss rush that was added in the final update could be cheesed a lot unless you self-imposed challenged yourself by having no allies. None of this is a thing in the other games.
I did, that one was great. Thanks for the recs then, should be fun.
i got it, and it's barebones
That sounds like a bunch of rationalization to me, plus I'm not saying she hates Mario. I just wasn't surprised to see girlboss Peach in the Mario Movie like everyone else, Odyssey was the warning signs of what was to come. Now they're doing this Mario & Peach are "friends" stuff, so it's obvious they're going to keep messing with the characters and the story.
I agree, I'd love to see Wario World 2. I didn't think about it but Bananza really would have made for a better Wario game. It doesn't feel like Donkey Kong AT ALL, really, in any way, right down to how DK doesn't even look like he should.
Stopped reading here; the PS5 exists.
Literally insane and objectively wrong. Name a genre and they almost certainly have a great game in it.
Um...not really. It probably will accumulate a great library over time, though currently it's got nothing but Midrio Kart World and Donkey Kong Bananza.
I don't believe that for a moment, not any more than "Ratchet & Clank can only run on PS5!"
If you destroy a bunch of shit at once and whip the camera around while there's other NPCs around it'll murder the frame rate. It wasn't too noticeable usually but there's soome bad instances of it. But it never ruins the game, frame rate snobbery is crazy to me unless it's genuinely impacting gameplay significantly.
