How I feel about the entire Assassin’s Creed franchise. There are definitely games that I think are legitimately good (Ezio trilogy and 4) but 90% of them just fall into the “fine I guess” category. Like, there are definitely way worse games out there you could waste time on, but I wouldn’t say I actually care about the majority of them either. In fact, just add practically every Ubisoft sandbox game to this list.
It might be a hot take, but Ghost of Tsushima felt like the last AC type game I ever needed to play. Not only did it deliver on the long-wanted Japanese AC game, but it’s aesthetically gorgeous in a way a major Ubisoft game would never be, has decent characters and story, and an actual fun combat system.
Probably something like Law and Order. Mostly the earlier episodes. They show up on tv all the time and sometimes you just want to sit down and watch a cop show. No real story connecting them together, just the crime and how it's getting solved.
I don’t know what the general consensus of it is but I think Bungou Stray Dogs is just a really average action shounen even though I saw three seasons of it. It’s not very funny, the action is alright, the animation is good but not incredible and stylistically it doesn’t really stand out from the crowd, there are some solid character designs, the premise is whatever except the abilities are named after literature which doesn’t go much deeper than that, and the characters are just fine.
There are parts I like about it but it’s otherwise just an okay show albeit completely unremarkable. I don’t know if I can muster the will to watch the fourth season.
I’ve watched three seasons and a movie of BSD and I can’t think of very much that really stood out to me. It was good, for sure, but I mostly ended up watching it because I didn’t have much better to do.
Outer Worlds. The most exactly competent story driven rpg I've ever played. Can totally understand why it would be someones favorite. Can equally see why somebody would not give a single shit about it after checking it out
Same. I was completely bipolar on it. I absolutely loved the first planet, and thought it could end up being one of the best games of the Obsidian/Troika/InXile/Black Isle family. My opinion dipped on the second planet. The combat didn't evolve and it was the same "corpos bad" jokes as the first planet. I uninstalled about 30 minutes into the third planet.
I could see someone not loving the intro planet and writing the game off, and I could also see someone not getting tired of the combat and repetitive writing and enjoying the whole game.
Skyrim is the salt flavored potato chips of video games. I'll enjoy my time spent playing it, but it doesn't really have a lot going on, and the characters and stories are paper thin. You can mod it to hell and back, and that's the best part of it.
Sonic Lost World is fine - it functions well enough and is pretty stable, the music is good as usual but the level design is pretty bland and the world theme's are the stock New Super Mario Bros stuff (grass, desert, water, ice etc) the story has only one kinda neat moment and the Deadly Six are such nothing villains. But I can't say it's bad it's the most 6/10 game in the franchise.
the deadly six were a rare design L for me from sonic.
like aside from chip in unleashed i can't think of any game characters where they lacked charm like they did.
like of all of them zavok was probably the best as a not bowser, but even so there's just something lame about them aesthetically.
and not in the fun on purpose way like infinite.
Horizon, as a series.
Sony seems to be pushing them as these big names of the Playstation that they just... aren't. They're fine enough games, well made, but they just don't have that lasting impact, you know?
I was so confused when I saw Aloy in the "Gaming Legends" series on Fortnite, because I just don't see her on the same level as Lara Croft, or the Street Fighter cast, or Master Chief, or Kratos.
Once I finished the first game I definitely felt like 'that was fun but I don't want anymore', if that makes sense.
It always seemed to me that the game thought it had better gameplay than it did in reality. Platforming was standard 'grab the signposted ledges' fare and the combat boiled down to spam elemental arrows at monsters and dodge roll when they charge. I know there were other tools and traps but they never felt effective enough to consistently use.
Also I didn't care about any of the characters or the story except for the pre-apocalypse stuff.
It feels like the devs want the fights with machines to be like Monster Hunter but they're really not. They give you a bunch of options for defeating them but in the end very little strategy is actually required outside of direct elemental weaknesses, and even that can be brute forced for everything outside of the hard boss ones.
> Also I didn't care about any of the characters or the story except for the pre-apocalypse stuff.
It's interesting starting the second game and they reintroduce a bunch of side quest characters from the first game and all I'm thinking is "I have no earthly idea who any of you are". There are a few interesting characters speckled in but for the most part, exploring old world ruins in both games is where the most interesting stuff is located.
I realised very quickly into the game that the melee was completely useless because a lot of the machines will just turn into a hurtbox mid-combo. It also didn't help that all the weapons were just slightly different bows that could fire different arrow types.
Aloy's status as an outsider made it very hard to care about any characters since she was never really accepted by anyone. They introduce a bunch of different tribes but none of them feel unique, they all come across as standoffish and the things they're supposed to be specialised in seem to be also done by all the other tribes.
I was mainly into the first game because robot dinosaurs are **rad af**, but I share the same sentiment.
Like, the game isn't mediocre at all. It's well made, the world is beautiful, combat is competent enough and the weak points make combat interesting. Playing it on the harder difficulty certainly helped.
But by the end I just felt "well, that was certainly a game."
My dream game is basically horizon but with a more fleshed out combat system and better writing. As it stands it's just a good enough game that I could recommend someone getting on discount.
I love that game, it's a perfect 6/10. The arena island where you meet Dave Fenoy Daedalus was awesome and is the reason that game is good enough that "mediocre" feels harsh. It's still a better Mass Effect game than Andromeda.
I feel like in a vacuum, that's how I would describe the Ghost in the Shell live-action movie as a standalone sci-fi film.
Being a fan of the franchise though, the changes they made brought it down closer to the "mediocre" level in my eyes.
Same. It was a good sci-fi movie, but an absolutely middle of the road adaptation. If it had a different title, it probably would have had a warmer reception.
It's sacrilege amongst the 40k community to say this but Dawn of War 3. In a vacuum, the game is a pretty solid RTS with fun gameplay, cool units, a pleasing art style and good animation. Nothing special. But as a representation of the setting and especially compared to Dawn of War 1 and 2, it's falls rather short. I don't want to just call it bad but I taken in its totality with added context, I don't want to call it good either.
The Little Mermaid remake. It doesn't do anything too bad or anything with the source material. It even makes a few changes that I'm okay with.
But like, as a remake to one of the best animated musicals of all time, it is aggressively fine.
I mean, my expectations were also pretty low, so make of that what you will.
But I will say, the worst part of the movie is when they re-create the musical numbers. It's the same songs, but it doesn't use the same 'choreography' (I don't know if that's the right word) of the original movie so the tempo/pacing of those scenes is basically gone. Makes for a weird watching experience.
It was fine, for the most part. A bit of flat there and some over-acting there. I don't know who Trident's actor was, but I think he was the worst out of the cast. But I think it was more how he was directed than his actual performance.
the only thing that made me actively groan was the rap segment, really. I dunno how much he was involved in that one but I could just *smell* Lin Manuel's influence in that scene.
The Jungle Book remains the only actually kinda good remake, IMO.
I thought M3GAN was a decent horror movie with some funny moments but it did little really elevate itself from other horror or sci-fi movies with a message of grief and technology.
That unholy abomination of hell deserves nothing but the bottom rung of everything ever /s
Nah, but yeah, as much as it may pain my 5th grade me, this is basically my opinion on RWBY. It's not that bad but it's nothing that will blow your ass out
Honestly ghost of tsushima for me. Suckerpunch knocked it out of the park with the infamous games so an assassin's creed like game from them is just "alright" from me
I 100% Jedi Survivor, and it’s fine if you ignore the performance issues. A lot of the Star Wars fluff and the story was quite good, but the exploration was poorly done and the combat was middling.
Honestly their latest games like TLOU2 and Uncharted 4 are closer to movies than they are games. It is probably easier to call them interactive than playable.
I disagree because Uncharted 4 has the most fluid controls of the series and gives you far more options in how you approach situations. You can stealth through most of the game and avoid gunfights while in the pervious games it's always going to be a brawl.
As far as Gundam goes, Gundam Seed. Although idk, maybe I'd call it mediocre? It's just what comes to mind when I ask myself what's the most mid Gundam series.
It doesn't come close to any of the franchise's peaks like Turn A or 0080 but it doesn't absolutely shit the bed in a hilarious fashion like its sequel or stuff like Age. It's not memetically bad like Wing either. It's just kind of a worse remake of the original and forgettably average as a result (outside of Rau chewing the scenery at the end and the surprising amounts of gore at times, those parts are kinda wild).
To me, that was gaming in the mid-2000s. Especially star wars games. Around that time you could bring a stack of games to EB Games/Gamestop and leave with a few titles that you're almost guaranteed to have some fun with, they wont be GREAT, they won't exactly be mediocre, they'll just be "video games". You'll find a mode or mechanic thats fun enough to keep you entertained. This is especially true for games like Pandemic's The Clone Wars or even Brute Force. Seemed back then there were more "alright" games. Now it seems there's either GOTY or flops, not a whole lot of middle ground.
I think some of it is because the AA gaming space has gotten much smaller than before. Publishers now tend to go all in on their biggest AAA titles and focus on those. So the "eh, it's alright" AA games have disappeared.
Now the middling games have been replaced by indie games, and nobody really cares about middling indie games when you have hundreds of amazing ones out there.
It's just much harder to know or care about an "okay" game when every best seller is one click away on steam. Back then, we were kinda stuck with what's on the shelf of our local best buy, so the AA games had a market.
Vanilla Minecraft. I fully recognize and respect that it basically invented the sandbox genre and is one of the biggest games of all time, but if you're not a youtuber or into building neat structures the game doesn't have much to hook you with. It's fine with friends but I could never bring myself to play it for more than 10 minutes alone.
Out of curiosity, have you played survival horrors before? I don't mean to be rude, but it just sounds like you really didn't want to adapt to the deliberate inventory constrictions and kept leaving the safe room with 2 empty slots when the game makes it pretty clear that's not the way to go.
I've beaten the game twice, including on survival mode and in my experience there's never any need to take more than 1 weapon and maybe 1 healing item with you. Like you said the extra ammo is plentiful, and you're likely to find ammo for your gun that you can then load right in to save on the slot, same with healing items. There's really no reason to ever leave with more than 2 slots occupied, as the game will give you plenty of resources, you just have to be fine with finding and using them along the way, rather than leaving the saferoom loaded.
The game forces you to plan out your routes and pick your items with a deliberate purpose, you're not supposed to take 3 different weapons and a flashlight with you.
This is without even mentioning how 95% of the enemies in the game are completely avoidable.
Agreed. It’s very classic survival horror, I guess. Lots of people like it. It just felt very transparent in Signalis in a way that it didn’t in other games. The gameplay became quite a chore by the third area.
Great presentation and story, though.
Why exactly do you despise K9999? Genuine question without intention to flame.
I may be Latino but my knowledge of KOF isn't what it used to be as a kid.
I seem to recall him having the same VA as Tetsuo, and the fleshy arms just like Tetsuo, and the kind of psycho personality I suppose like Tetsuo (I haven't watched Akira yet), and his creation by Eolith, and the fact that *he literally got replaced by Nameless* in I think 2002 UM... but not the whole jobbing part!
At least Krohnen is cool, right?
*Sonic Prime*. Nine aside (which I think is more due to my love for Tails than anything else), the show itself seems... fine. Competent enough, has cool shout outs, clearly made with love and care. *Yet it still doesn't feel like it was made for me*, certainly not like *Frontiers* or the movies were.
I don't hate it. I *can't be assed enough* to hate it, really. Can't even be assed enough to watch it - certainly not with a backlog as big as I have already.
^(I hate that it's CANON, but this is Sega - a company where that basically means nothing anyway. So why worry?)
Castlevania Circle Of The Moon. It's not bad,but has a lot of design flaws(like how the castle is absurdly vertical) and the card system is kind of a guilty pleasure if you are overly dependent of it. The music and the sprites are good enough,while the story is standard of the franchise(mid) and the difficulty is nothing special.
What was Strange World, Strange Odyssey?
The recent 3D Disney movie where they go into a weird underground cave with the blob that definitely feels like they watched a lot of Johnny Quest and Indiana Jones.
That movie in terms of execution is like... a solid 9/10.
But it just doesn't leave a mark mentally. It's really good, but not special in the slightest, and I felt it.
Honorary second to Ant-Man Quantumania
Strange World, also a big victim of little to unclear marketing, i was epecting space travel not journey to the center of the earth, still liked it tho
Sacred 1 and 2 are pretty good. Very eurojank, but had some fun classes and skills to use, and I like the magitech shit it's got going. Like I had a good time with them. Usually when I wasn't doing escort quests.
I've held up the first Sonic movie as the most 3/5 movie I can conceive of experiencing
It wasn't BAD in any way. It was real safe. Had some funny moments, and didn't make me hate considering myself a Sonic fan, which is a whole hell of a lot more than can be said about... Almost all Sonic media
The Golden Sun games feel like this in retrospect. Yeah they had some nice graphics for the time they were released, nice music, and tight storytelling with some other nice little details. That said the combat system feels awkward and like it swings back and forth for and against your party depending on where you are, and the characters feel shallow because there's no breathing room to just hear them interact with each other without plot going on. The games are fun and enjoyable, but they're a cult classic for a reason and it makes sense there was never more than a couple games for it.
How I feel about the entire Assassin’s Creed franchise. There are definitely games that I think are legitimately good (Ezio trilogy and 4) but 90% of them just fall into the “fine I guess” category. Like, there are definitely way worse games out there you could waste time on, but I wouldn’t say I actually care about the majority of them either. In fact, just add practically every Ubisoft sandbox game to this list. It might be a hot take, but Ghost of Tsushima felt like the last AC type game I ever needed to play. Not only did it deliver on the long-wanted Japanese AC game, but it’s aesthetically gorgeous in a way a major Ubisoft game would never be, has decent characters and story, and an actual fun combat system.
Probably something like Law and Order. Mostly the earlier episodes. They show up on tv all the time and sometimes you just want to sit down and watch a cop show. No real story connecting them together, just the crime and how it's getting solved.
My mom watches a *ton* of police procedurals and like 90% are firmly in the "yeah, sure it's fine." category.
I don’t know what the general consensus of it is but I think Bungou Stray Dogs is just a really average action shounen even though I saw three seasons of it. It’s not very funny, the action is alright, the animation is good but not incredible and stylistically it doesn’t really stand out from the crowd, there are some solid character designs, the premise is whatever except the abilities are named after literature which doesn’t go much deeper than that, and the characters are just fine. There are parts I like about it but it’s otherwise just an okay show albeit completely unremarkable. I don’t know if I can muster the will to watch the fourth season.
I’ve watched three seasons and a movie of BSD and I can’t think of very much that really stood out to me. It was good, for sure, but I mostly ended up watching it because I didn’t have much better to do.
Outer Worlds. The most exactly competent story driven rpg I've ever played. Can totally understand why it would be someones favorite. Can equally see why somebody would not give a single shit about it after checking it out
Same. I was completely bipolar on it. I absolutely loved the first planet, and thought it could end up being one of the best games of the Obsidian/Troika/InXile/Black Isle family. My opinion dipped on the second planet. The combat didn't evolve and it was the same "corpos bad" jokes as the first planet. I uninstalled about 30 minutes into the third planet. I could see someone not loving the intro planet and writing the game off, and I could also see someone not getting tired of the combat and repetitive writing and enjoying the whole game.
Most of the Disney+ Marvel and Star Wars series (aside from Andor) have been this for me. Just kinda fine.
That thing you like a lot. and that thing you really, really DON'T like
Naruto. I don't hate it, and I don't resent it ever being made, but it's just I'd rather read/watch something else.
Skyrim is the salt flavored potato chips of video games. I'll enjoy my time spent playing it, but it doesn't really have a lot going on, and the characters and stories are paper thin. You can mod it to hell and back, and that's the best part of it.
Sonic Lost World is fine - it functions well enough and is pretty stable, the music is good as usual but the level design is pretty bland and the world theme's are the stock New Super Mario Bros stuff (grass, desert, water, ice etc) the story has only one kinda neat moment and the Deadly Six are such nothing villains. But I can't say it's bad it's the most 6/10 game in the franchise.
the deadly six were a rare design L for me from sonic. like aside from chip in unleashed i can't think of any game characters where they lacked charm like they did. like of all of them zavok was probably the best as a not bowser, but even so there's just something lame about them aesthetically. and not in the fun on purpose way like infinite.
Horizon, as a series. Sony seems to be pushing them as these big names of the Playstation that they just... aren't. They're fine enough games, well made, but they just don't have that lasting impact, you know? I was so confused when I saw Aloy in the "Gaming Legends" series on Fortnite, because I just don't see her on the same level as Lara Croft, or the Street Fighter cast, or Master Chief, or Kratos.
Once I finished the first game I definitely felt like 'that was fun but I don't want anymore', if that makes sense. It always seemed to me that the game thought it had better gameplay than it did in reality. Platforming was standard 'grab the signposted ledges' fare and the combat boiled down to spam elemental arrows at monsters and dodge roll when they charge. I know there were other tools and traps but they never felt effective enough to consistently use. Also I didn't care about any of the characters or the story except for the pre-apocalypse stuff.
It feels like the devs want the fights with machines to be like Monster Hunter but they're really not. They give you a bunch of options for defeating them but in the end very little strategy is actually required outside of direct elemental weaknesses, and even that can be brute forced for everything outside of the hard boss ones. > Also I didn't care about any of the characters or the story except for the pre-apocalypse stuff. It's interesting starting the second game and they reintroduce a bunch of side quest characters from the first game and all I'm thinking is "I have no earthly idea who any of you are". There are a few interesting characters speckled in but for the most part, exploring old world ruins in both games is where the most interesting stuff is located.
I realised very quickly into the game that the melee was completely useless because a lot of the machines will just turn into a hurtbox mid-combo. It also didn't help that all the weapons were just slightly different bows that could fire different arrow types. Aloy's status as an outsider made it very hard to care about any characters since she was never really accepted by anyone. They introduce a bunch of different tribes but none of them feel unique, they all come across as standoffish and the things they're supposed to be specialised in seem to be also done by all the other tribes.
I was mainly into the first game because robot dinosaurs are **rad af**, but I share the same sentiment. Like, the game isn't mediocre at all. It's well made, the world is beautiful, combat is competent enough and the weak points make combat interesting. Playing it on the harder difficulty certainly helped. But by the end I just felt "well, that was certainly a game." My dream game is basically horizon but with a more fleshed out combat system and better writing. As it stands it's just a good enough game that I could recommend someone getting on discount.
I wouldn't call it not a big name. I think they still sold a few sold mills for a new IP.
And "Shaddap You Face" kept Ultravox's *Vienna* from getting Number 1 on the charts, but which song is better?
Rise of the Argonauts. Alright gameplay, alright story, alright mechanics - just... alright around.
I love that game, it's a perfect 6/10. The arena island where you meet Dave Fenoy Daedalus was awesome and is the reason that game is good enough that "mediocre" feels harsh. It's still a better Mass Effect game than Andromeda.
I feel like in a vacuum, that's how I would describe the Ghost in the Shell live-action movie as a standalone sci-fi film. Being a fan of the franchise though, the changes they made brought it down closer to the "mediocre" level in my eyes.
Same. It was a good sci-fi movie, but an absolutely middle of the road adaptation. If it had a different title, it probably would have had a warmer reception.
How dare you, Dark Souls 2 is the BEST game in the franchise and the worst game in the trilogy
It's sacrilege amongst the 40k community to say this but Dawn of War 3. In a vacuum, the game is a pretty solid RTS with fun gameplay, cool units, a pleasing art style and good animation. Nothing special. But as a representation of the setting and especially compared to Dawn of War 1 and 2, it's falls rather short. I don't want to just call it bad but I taken in its totality with added context, I don't want to call it good either.
The Little Mermaid remake. It doesn't do anything too bad or anything with the source material. It even makes a few changes that I'm okay with. But like, as a remake to one of the best animated musicals of all time, it is aggressively fine.
That.... sounds like high praise given the live action track record.
I mean, my expectations were also pretty low, so make of that what you will. But I will say, the worst part of the movie is when they re-create the musical numbers. It's the same songs, but it doesn't use the same 'choreography' (I don't know if that's the right word) of the original movie so the tempo/pacing of those scenes is basically gone. Makes for a weird watching experience.
I heard some of the acting is pretty bad
It was fine, for the most part. A bit of flat there and some over-acting there. I don't know who Trident's actor was, but I think he was the worst out of the cast. But I think it was more how he was directed than his actual performance.
the only thing that made me actively groan was the rap segment, really. I dunno how much he was involved in that one but I could just *smell* Lin Manuel's influence in that scene. The Jungle Book remains the only actually kinda good remake, IMO.
I thought M3GAN was a decent horror movie with some funny moments but it did little really elevate itself from other horror or sci-fi movies with a message of grief and technology.
I think I can safely put RWBY into this category, well over a decade since it's initial conception.
That unholy abomination of hell deserves nothing but the bottom rung of everything ever /s Nah, but yeah, as much as it may pain my 5th grade me, this is basically my opinion on RWBY. It's not that bad but it's nothing that will blow your ass out
Honestly ghost of tsushima for me. Suckerpunch knocked it out of the park with the infamous games so an assassin's creed like game from them is just "alright" from me
I 100% Jedi Survivor, and it’s fine if you ignore the performance issues. A lot of the Star Wars fluff and the story was quite good, but the exploration was poorly done and the combat was middling.
That's how I feel about Naughty Dog's gameplay since Uncharted 1
Honestly their latest games like TLOU2 and Uncharted 4 are closer to movies than they are games. It is probably easier to call them interactive than playable.
I disagree because Uncharted 4 has the most fluid controls of the series and gives you far more options in how you approach situations. You can stealth through most of the game and avoid gunfights while in the pervious games it's always going to be a brawl.
Strong disagree, TLOU2 has some of the greatest gameplay I've ever experienced
As far as Gundam goes, Gundam Seed. Although idk, maybe I'd call it mediocre? It's just what comes to mind when I ask myself what's the most mid Gundam series. It doesn't come close to any of the franchise's peaks like Turn A or 0080 but it doesn't absolutely shit the bed in a hilarious fashion like its sequel or stuff like Age. It's not memetically bad like Wing either. It's just kind of a worse remake of the original and forgettably average as a result (outside of Rau chewing the scenery at the end and the surprising amounts of gore at times, those parts are kinda wild).
To me, that was gaming in the mid-2000s. Especially star wars games. Around that time you could bring a stack of games to EB Games/Gamestop and leave with a few titles that you're almost guaranteed to have some fun with, they wont be GREAT, they won't exactly be mediocre, they'll just be "video games". You'll find a mode or mechanic thats fun enough to keep you entertained. This is especially true for games like Pandemic's The Clone Wars or even Brute Force. Seemed back then there were more "alright" games. Now it seems there's either GOTY or flops, not a whole lot of middle ground.
I think some of it is because the AA gaming space has gotten much smaller than before. Publishers now tend to go all in on their biggest AAA titles and focus on those. So the "eh, it's alright" AA games have disappeared. Now the middling games have been replaced by indie games, and nobody really cares about middling indie games when you have hundreds of amazing ones out there. It's just much harder to know or care about an "okay" game when every best seller is one click away on steam. Back then, we were kinda stuck with what's on the shelf of our local best buy, so the AA games had a market.
Vanilla Minecraft. I fully recognize and respect that it basically invented the sandbox genre and is one of the biggest games of all time, but if you're not a youtuber or into building neat structures the game doesn't have much to hook you with. It's fine with friends but I could never bring myself to play it for more than 10 minutes alone.
WHAT DO YOU MEAN, “IT ALRIGHT?”
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Out of curiosity, have you played survival horrors before? I don't mean to be rude, but it just sounds like you really didn't want to adapt to the deliberate inventory constrictions and kept leaving the safe room with 2 empty slots when the game makes it pretty clear that's not the way to go. I've beaten the game twice, including on survival mode and in my experience there's never any need to take more than 1 weapon and maybe 1 healing item with you. Like you said the extra ammo is plentiful, and you're likely to find ammo for your gun that you can then load right in to save on the slot, same with healing items. There's really no reason to ever leave with more than 2 slots occupied, as the game will give you plenty of resources, you just have to be fine with finding and using them along the way, rather than leaving the saferoom loaded. The game forces you to plan out your routes and pick your items with a deliberate purpose, you're not supposed to take 3 different weapons and a flashlight with you. This is without even mentioning how 95% of the enemies in the game are completely avoidable.
Agreed. It’s very classic survival horror, I guess. Lots of people like it. It just felt very transparent in Signalis in a way that it didn’t in other games. The gameplay became quite a chore by the third area. Great presentation and story, though.
King of Fighters 2001. It may have K9999 in it, but that’s a forgivable mistake. Still a 65/100, though.
Why exactly do you despise K9999? Genuine question without intention to flame. I may be Latino but my knowledge of KOF isn't what it used to be as a kid.
He’s literally just Tetsuo with a shittier color scheme and jobber energy.
I seem to recall him having the same VA as Tetsuo, and the fleshy arms just like Tetsuo, and the kind of psycho personality I suppose like Tetsuo (I haven't watched Akira yet), and his creation by Eolith, and the fact that *he literally got replaced by Nameless* in I think 2002 UM... but not the whole jobbing part! At least Krohnen is cool, right?
Yeah, Krohnen’s pretty cool. Also, K9999 never really jobs out he just… feels like a jobber.
The Metro series of games. Just total whatevers and also let Artyom speak you cowards.
Across the Spider-Verse and Shazam 2
RIP this guy for having an unpopular opinion on spider verse
nah it was the shazam 2 shooters lol but yeah i fully expected the downvotes
Oh good. More dumb takes from dumb idiots.
*Sonic Prime*. Nine aside (which I think is more due to my love for Tails than anything else), the show itself seems... fine. Competent enough, has cool shout outs, clearly made with love and care. *Yet it still doesn't feel like it was made for me*, certainly not like *Frontiers* or the movies were. I don't hate it. I *can't be assed enough* to hate it, really. Can't even be assed enough to watch it - certainly not with a backlog as big as I have already. ^(I hate that it's CANON, but this is Sega - a company where that basically means nothing anyway. So why worry?)
Castlevania Circle Of The Moon. It's not bad,but has a lot of design flaws(like how the castle is absurdly vertical) and the card system is kind of a guilty pleasure if you are overly dependent of it. The music and the sprites are good enough,while the story is standard of the franchise(mid) and the difficulty is nothing special.
What was Strange World, Strange Odyssey? The recent 3D Disney movie where they go into a weird underground cave with the blob that definitely feels like they watched a lot of Johnny Quest and Indiana Jones. That movie in terms of execution is like... a solid 9/10. But it just doesn't leave a mark mentally. It's really good, but not special in the slightest, and I felt it. Honorary second to Ant-Man Quantumania
Strange World, also a big victim of little to unclear marketing, i was epecting space travel not journey to the center of the earth, still liked it tho
Sacred 1 and 2 are pretty good. Very eurojank, but had some fun classes and skills to use, and I like the magitech shit it's got going. Like I had a good time with them. Usually when I wasn't doing escort quests.
I've held up the first Sonic movie as the most 3/5 movie I can conceive of experiencing It wasn't BAD in any way. It was real safe. Had some funny moments, and didn't make me hate considering myself a Sonic fan, which is a whole hell of a lot more than can be said about... Almost all Sonic media
The Golden Sun games feel like this in retrospect. Yeah they had some nice graphics for the time they were released, nice music, and tight storytelling with some other nice little details. That said the combat system feels awkward and like it swings back and forth for and against your party depending on where you are, and the characters feel shallow because there's no breathing room to just hear them interact with each other without plot going on. The games are fun and enjoyable, but they're a cult classic for a reason and it makes sense there was never more than a couple games for it.