Ok, so what I thought was this; the 'what have you been playing this week' thread is mostly just full of lists of games, which is boring. It's ok for modern games, cos they have their own first play thread in which people can actually discuss them. Not so for retro. Why don't we retroheads have a thread of our own then?
Let's not have posts consisting only of game titles, tell us what you think of them.
I've been playing Mario and Luigi RPG since I finished Advance Wars. Really enjoying it so far, love the bold graphics and stuff, but there are some things that are really pissing me off. The controls are horrendous! I guess it's thanks to the gba's only having two face buttons, but controlling two characters at once is a pain in the ass. Switching between spin jumps and high jumps and hammers and stuff is just annoying as all hell. I've only played it for a couple of hours, so I'm hoping I'll get used to it, but at the moment it's so bothersome, constantly switching, I'm always using the wrong jump or something and just waiting while Luigi bounces up and down on Mario's head when all I wanted to do was walk up some simple steps.
The other thing is the perspective is awful; you can never tell where something is located with relation to the foreground and the background, which just ruins the fluidity of playing, since it is so paramount to the gameplay. You have to jump on enemies to get an advantage in battle, but it's so hard to line it up with this psuedo-3d style top-down perspective. It's also a pain when you're having to land in tornados or lining up jumps between platforms, cos you're never sure what the height is.
Sounds like some big problems, but it's a testament to the game that I'm still enjoying it. There's a perfect balance between battling and platforming. I really do hope I get used to these problems though. One other thing I've noticed though is that a lot of the Nintendo references and in-jokes aren't present in the Japanese version, or at least not that I can understand.
Did anyone else notice these problems when they played it? Did they get mentioned in the original reviews? (Cue Charles or David linking to the ntsc-uk review, well not today boys http://www.bordersdown.net/review.ph...ame=MarioLuigi , I beat you to it).
Let's not have posts consisting only of game titles, tell us what you think of them.
I've been playing Mario and Luigi RPG since I finished Advance Wars. Really enjoying it so far, love the bold graphics and stuff, but there are some things that are really pissing me off. The controls are horrendous! I guess it's thanks to the gba's only having two face buttons, but controlling two characters at once is a pain in the ass. Switching between spin jumps and high jumps and hammers and stuff is just annoying as all hell. I've only played it for a couple of hours, so I'm hoping I'll get used to it, but at the moment it's so bothersome, constantly switching, I'm always using the wrong jump or something and just waiting while Luigi bounces up and down on Mario's head when all I wanted to do was walk up some simple steps.
The other thing is the perspective is awful; you can never tell where something is located with relation to the foreground and the background, which just ruins the fluidity of playing, since it is so paramount to the gameplay. You have to jump on enemies to get an advantage in battle, but it's so hard to line it up with this psuedo-3d style top-down perspective. It's also a pain when you're having to land in tornados or lining up jumps between platforms, cos you're never sure what the height is.
Sounds like some big problems, but it's a testament to the game that I'm still enjoying it. There's a perfect balance between battling and platforming. I really do hope I get used to these problems though. One other thing I've noticed though is that a lot of the Nintendo references and in-jokes aren't present in the Japanese version, or at least not that I can understand.
Did anyone else notice these problems when they played it? Did they get mentioned in the original reviews? (Cue Charles or David linking to the ntsc-uk review, well not today boys http://www.bordersdown.net/review.ph...ame=MarioLuigi , I beat you to it).
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