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I played for a few hours tonight, and I had a blast. I can't remember the last time I had this much fun with a game. You know a game is good when you want to play it every free minute you have, and when you aren't playing it, you're thinking about it in your head.
I'm having a bit too much fun with SMS. I played until 1 am last night and as such over slept and waslate to summer school this morning. Opps.Quote:
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Sounds like what happened to me when I first got Mario 64. Looks like I'm going into hibernation... and I was hoping to get OUT of hibernation after Warcraft III. :DQuote:
Originally posted by Kinopio
I played for a few hours tonight, and I had a blast. I can't remember the last time I had this much fun with a game. You know a game is good when you want to play it every free minute you have, and when you aren't playing it, you're thinking about it in your head.
35 Shines and still going... man this game is fucking incredible. Everyone must buy this... I'm going on 5 hours of sleep now because I couldn't turn the damned thing off...
SHINE GET!!!!!!!!
Sunhine is really different than any other Mario game ever. It feels to me to be considerably edgier and tougher than any other previous games, although in difficulty it seems on par with The Lost Levels. The water pack just adds so much to the game, and I'm saying this after only about 14 shines. Truly an amazing game.
Sunshine is definately tough, I had a couple of story's that had me ready to throw my wavebird across the room last night... and I'm not even a third of the way through the shines yet.
I have to chime in here and agree that Mario 64 was a waste of a game. Mediocre in every sense of the word with about a fourth of the fun of the 8 and 16 bit games and none of that intangible magic. The enemies were placeholders at best, and the game boiled down to "can you wrestle with the 3D ness of it all and make Mario not walk himself off the ledge?". Why so many people love it, I'll never know. It was at least as much of a screw up as Yoshi's Story was.
Still, I have my Sunshine reserved and paid for, so here's to hoping.
:lol: No, I wasn't focusing on just that. IT's that the old games were linear arcade plaformers, and the later games are these slow, open, laid back games full of backtracking and empty space that just don't appeal to me. The enemies are only one example of that. Others would be the fact that every time you kill one of the pylon/enemies you get heath, so the vulnerability and desire to keep your super status is shot to hell. Really everything about the game is just geared completely differently. What you're saying is akin to saying Metroid and Contra are the same kind of game. Alot of the same parts are there, but the way it plays out couldn't be more different.Quote:
Originally posted by Green
I just see all the Mario games as platformers. Frog, you seem to focus on the enemy encounters, and I don't think that is what Mario is all about.
That much I am glad to hear. While I still prefer arcade-style action, at least providing a good challenge is consolation. If the flow of action is good, too, then I will be very happy.Quote:
Originally posted by AFX
Sunhine is really different than any other Mario game ever. It feels to me to be considerably edgier and tougher than any other previous games, although in difficulty it seems on par with The Lost Levels. The water pack just adds so much to the game, and I\'m saying this after only about 14 shines. Truly an amazing game.
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Originally posted by bbobb
Sunshine is definately tough, I had a couple of story's that had me ready to throw my wavebird across the room last night... and I'm not even a third of the way through the shines yet.
Same. The red coin story in Mamma Beach in particular fucked with me bad. It never occured to me to keep riding the bird. I had figured that when he tilted all the way to one side, that was a hint that you should have them all by that point. It just seemed like am amazingly bastardly thing coming from a Mario game to actually have to finesse your way up his neck so that you didn't fall. A lot of the levels where you lose your water pack are extremely painful too. If they're this hard already it hurts to think what they'll be like later in the game.
Heh, if you think Mamma Beach is bad, wait till you see some of the shit in Pinna Park... ouch. Yeah the no water pack parts are hard... but I also think they're some of the best parts of the game. They just feel old school, challenging and rewarding when you finally accomplish it.Quote:
Originally posted by AFX
*semi-spoilers*
Same. The red coin story in Mamma Beach in particular fucked with me bad. It never occured to me to keep riding the bird. I had figured that when he tilted all the way to one side, that was a hint that you should have them all by that point. It just seemed like am amazingly bastardly thing coming from a Mario game to actually have to finesse your way up his neck so that you didn't fall. A lot of the levels where you lose your water pack are extremely painful too. If they're this hard already it hurts to think what they'll be like later in the game.