u/Gnoll_level_antics

Never played a Wonder Boy/Monster World game before. I know the series has an utterly confusing lack of a consistent naming convention, but this entry in particular caught my eye. Decided to give it a shot and I haven't been able to put it down. A genuinely fun action platformer with lots of exploration and abilities to find in doing so. Also I kinda can't believe how good the music is.

So I was playing Mario Kart Double Dash via Dolphin, as one does. I was just going through and getting all the unlockable karts. Currently on 100cc Star cup. The babies got stuck on the environment at some point so obviously they came in last on the final ranking for the stage. But I had no idea that the automatic calculator for CPU finishing times actually accounted for them getting stuck and gave a simulated time until they got unstuck.

I already know that StarFox Command has a dogwater story, >!completely assassinates Krystal's character!<, and that it doesn't have the on foot missions from Assault. That is where my knowledge ends. Story doesn't really take away all that much from a game for me if the gameplay is serviceable. So I ask... is Command's gameplay serviceable? Can someone like me, who enjoyed all five games from the SNES original up to Assault, have a good time with Command?

So I actually owned Frogger's Great Quest back around the time it came out. The game was so awful and off putting that even I as an elementary school aged child couldn't stomach it. Fast forward a year and I see a new Frogger game being advertised in a game store catalog. My PS2 had crapped out around this time, but i had a GameCube now, and this game was on GCN rather than being a PS2 exclusive. So I hop on that as soon as I had money saved. I buy a copy of Frogger Beyond, and my god it was just like the old games. It's just classic arcade Frogger, hopping around in a puzzle level just as he should be and god dammit I had a blast. It was insanely hard, but I loved every second of it. I loved it so much in fact that when a new Frogger game came out It was the first thing I wanted to get assuming a new Sonic game wasn't out. I even got a DS AND a PSP to play both versions of Frogger: Helmet Chaos. I still find myself booting up Frogger Beyond and The Rescue in Dolphin once a year.

Do you have experience with post-reboot Frogger?

Having recently completed the recompiled Dinosaur Planet all the way to it's end (with the help of Dinomod), I found it to be really cool and fun, and I was sad that it never saw the light of day as a full release. I kinda had a chip on my shoulder against Starfox Adventures for the longest time, not as a jilted Starfox fan, but as someone who genuinely would have played the hell out of Dinosaur Planet, had it actually released for N64 as planned. I decided to jump in, now that Dinosaur Planet was fresh in my mind to compare and contrast.

No joke I was going in with the goal of hating this game more, I had no intention to be fair to it. But as I played I began to realize how poorly structured Dinosaur Planet actually was, not just in the idea that it is an unfinished game, but nothing flows as nicely as it should. It's easy to get lost and need a guide to progress. Starfox Adventures is VERY straight forward on what it asks from you, without ever really holding your hand in a way that feels like it doesn't trust you to just play. But if I ever needed an objective reminder, Slippy's advice in the menu NEVER failed me. Seriously, Slippy is the MVP of this game.

As I went through this game, I found myself having way more fun with it. Seeing all of Sabre's moments recontextualized for Fox wasn't as jarring as I thought it would be, and even a ton of moments that belonged to Krystal in Dinosaur Planet, were rewritten for Fox and felt just as natural. Everything felt better, smoother, more convenient. I'm near the end, and while the game does have a few rough spots, I can say for sure that the rebrand and port forward to GameCube was probably for the best. While I would have greatly preferred to play as Krystal to the same degree you do in Dinosaur Planet, I'm happy this game exists in an officially released form and IS good. Very good in fact. A super solid 8/10 if I had to rate it.

What are your thoughts on Starfox Adventures?

Screenshot provided. I'm certain it isn't NFL Blitz, but I could be wrong. What is this game?

Spoilers for San Andreas BTW

>!Hey r/gta! I just made it to the back quarter of this game and FUCK THIS GUY. HOLY SHIT SWEET JOHNSON YOU DUMB FUCK. CJ helped build a fucking triad casino empire in a fucking week, took on secret black operations for a shadow government agent, got into a fucking aerial dogfight with fighter jets to get him out of prison, and his first fucking thought after being told the CJ and Kendel are running mutliple successful businesses is "Take me back to my hood" CJ SHOULD HAVE LET YOU ROT IN THAT CELL! I genuinely can't believe this guy... like... I do not care even a little bit about the Grove after everything CJ managed to accomplish. Why would anyone go back?!<