Super Princess Peach

[Revoltor]

SPP is to SMB what HGM is to GF.

Complete shit?

[Compass]

(though it's really irritating having to use the stylus to switch modes)

Now here's an aspect of the game that really is down-syndrome-ish. I didn't buy Nanostray for the same reason. For the life of me I don't understand why they would do this. I guess maybe they expect you to use your thumb, rather than the stylus, but that's still far more awkward (not to mention greasy screen-inducing) than, I don't know, PRESSING ONE OF THE UNUSED BUTTONS RIGHT UNDERNEATH MY THUMB. Yay, there's a touchscreen, we're going to make you use it, yes, I get it. The very definition of gimmicky. I hate it.

[Finch]

This game wasn't made for HARDC0RE GAMING FREAKS who expect every game to be like Ninja Gaiden. It was made for kids.

OH, BUT LOLS! YOU GUYS ARE IN YOUR TWENTIES AND PLAYING IT!

It's also very well designed. Anyone can enjoy that. If you don't find enjoyment in exploring the huge freaking levels, then find something else, shit-ant. The difficulty gradually picks up until you realise you need the calm vibe if you don't want to die.

If you manage to suffer the six hits necessary to kill Peach, there's no penalty. You just get kicked back to the most recent checkpoint.

WRONG! You get sent back to the map and you have to play through the stage again. You get to keep your stuff, but it's certainly a penalty. What do you want, shit spraying in your eyes?

Why dont you tell him why hes wrong then instead of looking like an asshole because you spent $35 on a game that doesnt make 8 year olds sweat.

Because it takes 2 hours to complete 18 out of 80 stages. I guess you could run through them and not explore, but then you're probably not playing it for fun anyway.

New SMB

I'll get that too. This is out now, i could afford it, and i like it a lot. If you can only buy one game every three months, then sure, wait for New SMB, but this one's a lot of fun if you like that kind of game. Metroid and Tetris aren't the same type of game. At all. If someone showed a picture of Drill Dozer, i'd say, "Get that too." but not instead.

FOR A RETARDED KID

Yeah, lol. We get it. Conglaturation for reading what you want to read.

Things are picking up a little bit in the second world, but I'm not optimistic for the rest of the game.

Keep playing. SPP gets more difficult as you go. If you really want to hate the game, you probably won't like it no matter what. Enemies get faster and start jumping in your face, etc. The stages also get pretty big.

PRESSING ONE OF THE UNUSED BUTTONS RIGHT UNDERNEATH MY THUMB

:P Only A/B and R/L are used for the same thing. I don't think cycling through things would be any better. Have you played it? It's not so bad. You get used to it quick and it's easy to clean your screen. Power-ups might work better, but they'd have to be all over the place to be useful.


What did i miss?

In this angry adult world, we only find joy in hating things.

Poor things.

[sethsez]

The vibe (har har) I'm getting is that this is about on the level of a decent Kirby game. Am I right?

[Finch]

Hm... Yeah. Kirby 2. Much better than Kirby's Adventure. Kirby's Dream Course... now that was hard.

Fun fact: I beat the original Kirby on the way to school once. 20 minutes. I also beat the hard mode. That was hard.

[sleeve]

For the record, I don't dislike the game, it's just insultingly easy.

Maybe the Kirby games are like that, too. I've never played any of them.

[sethsez]

I still maintain that it's impossible to lose in a Kirby platformer. They're some of the easiest games ever, yet people still love them for some reason. This sounds very similar.

You'd probably hate Kirby.

[Finch]

Kirby was pretty easy if you just wanted to beat it. It wasn't insulting, but if you really wanted a challenge, you'd go for the extra stuff. The first Kirby's extra mode was hard as hell. You haven't played it if you don't believe me. Kirby 2 was pretty hard if you went for the whatever pieces. That last last boss is one of the hardest damn bosses ever.
Kirby Mirror is moderate difficulty because the stages are all Metroidvania stuff.

[magnifiedplaid]

I still maintain that it's impossible to lose in a Kirby platformer. They're some of the easiest games ever, yet people still love them for some reason. This sounds very similar.

I agree that most of the Kirby platformers are fairly simple, but I found a couple of the later stages in Kirby's Canvas Curse to be slightly more challenging and frustrating than I expected.

[Finch]

I forgot about Canvas Curse. That's a beautiful game, and it's not too easy.