![]() The first few Final Fantasy games were innovative and popular, but can you really rate them on the same metrics as today’s games? I bet your average mediocre phone JRPG has better gameplay, better graphics, and better story.As you awake in the corridors of an inexplicable building, you find the environment takes on a life of its own and leads you to discover a series of victims, all exposed to the same experimental chemical. I also don’t think it’s fair to review a rereleased game that’s so old. But Mother 1 is still an RPG and I could only recommend it to people who are already fans of the series. ![]() There are other games that are RPGs for the sake of being RPGs, with all of the spells and equipment and classes and technical stuff and stats. Here the RPG is a medium for conveying other things. Imo it’s accurate to say that the gameplay itself just isn’t very good (and I can’t honestly say that it’s very special in Mother 2), but I think the game has so many other good and unique things going on that makes it special. There were times that I was very frustrated when I’d just defeat an enemy, take two steps forward and then fight the exact same enemy with the exact same music (I love the music but if I played the game much longer I’d probably develop a pavlovian response to it). I did not like some games that are rated very high, and I did like some games that are rated very low. That was probably the most annoying part of the game for me.Ī high or low score can’t assure you whether you’ll like it or not either. I’d like to point out the things that they probably could’ve fixed, like how Loid and Ana are really low levels when you get them. I’m pretty sure overworld enemies couldn’t be made with such little memory on the NES, although I’d like it it’s not much of something they could have controlled. I personally wouldn’t call out on things that were caused by memory limitations. No review is really “just the facts.” Some people hate grinding in RPGs like this, and others couldn’t care less about it. Seriously, why isn’t 5/10 considered a moderate score? It’s like scores 1-6 are basically the same.Īlso keep in mind that even though it’s a review, it’s guaranteed to have a lot of opinions you might not agree with. I would consider 6.5 an above-average score, but since gamers had to limit good scores to 8-10 I guess not. What was annoying was that running away from battle isn’t really a viable option until the very end of the game, at least in my opinion, so I basically ended up finishing every battle I started, especially if it would cost less PP to heal the expected damage than to use 4th-D Slip.Įither way, I can totally understand disliking the game for that reason, or for its relatively unhelpful in-game map / direction (Personally, I haven’t had the patience to enjoy the 2-D Metroid games due to their steep time-investment to master relative to the Mario/DK/Kirby series), but I really hate it when people just use either as a blanket excuse to say “it hasn’t aged well”, as if that’s not the case with every RPG from that era.īut then, I’m the type that likes to kill everything I encounter on the first time through an area in pretty much any RPG, and I was really immersed in the simplicity and huge world of EarthBound Beginnings, so those aren’t really negatives in my mind anyway. For me, just having played it through for the first time (without the Easy Ring, at least), the grinding wasn’t nearly as bad as everyone says (honestly, I may have grinded more in EarthBound).
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |