Wii Music feels like the right answer, but it felt like it was at least self-consciously a weird experiment. Amiibo Festival doesn't even have that going for it. It's just an Animal Crossing skin on all the worst children's board games
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What is Nintendos worst first party game?
- Thread starter SlipperyMoose
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Pokemon Dash actually might be the worst game with a well known IP on it, game has a Metascore of 46
I hope that Donkey Kong Jr. isnt one of those, ebcause that's a great one.
Oh yeah, that game is straight up screen destroying trash. Bought it because I had a new system and wanted something else to play.
Urban Champion or either of the ROB games.
I still feel this was made from the remnants of a proper AC title for the Wii U that just couldn't get done in time. Or Nintendo just told them to focus on New Horizons. Like something weird had to have happened for Wii U to just get Amiibo Festival and that downloadable AC mii Plaza alternative.
I still feel this was made from the remnants of a proper AC title for the Wii U that just couldn't get done in time. Or Nintendo just told them to focus on New Horizons. Like something weird had to have happened for Wii U to just get Amiibo Festival and that downloadable AC mii Plaza alternative.
Joy Mech Fight came out, like, a full decade after Urban Champion
Since when do party games need to be deep
Mario Chase and the Animal Crossing one were stupidly fun in a group. I spent soooooo many hours playing those with friends and family
Its Amiibo festival but this:
The whole "engage in fights" thing didn't work out so well, and bosses only being beatable by certain stickers you might have used earlier was just...ugh.
is a strong contender. One of the few times they managed to make the main gameplay loop not only not fun, but borderline broken.
The whole "engage in fights" thing didn't work out so well, and bosses only being beatable by certain stickers you might have used earlier was just...ugh.
Okay, i retract my words, I read bad those numbers when searching.
It was a kid's game so no worries haha.
I must say, the visual style does age well today.
My issue was expectations. I loved YI. It was my favorite platformer on the SNES. And this was very different.
I think this too, amiibo Festival really feels like an attempt to justify the amiibos, nothing more. Maybe the R.O.B. games are similar.
Also, what about the Artoon games? People liked those? 🤔
I had Club Penguin Game Day xD It was fun from what I remember.
Also the Donkey Kong game is legitimately a great arcade game.
Having played Amiibo Festival, it's too competently made and inoffensive for me to consider it a bad game, in fact the island survival minigame was good enough to be brought over to New Leaf.
I think Phantom Hourglass might be the worst game relative to its series, though worst overall, probably not.
I'd probably have to dig back to some NES/Gameboy Jank to find a legitimately bad first party game.
I think Phantom Hourglass might be the worst game relative to its series, though worst overall, probably not.
I'd probably have to dig back to some NES/Gameboy Jank to find a legitimately bad first party game.
I will not stand for this GameCube slander from you filthy heathens
I've never seen such a swath of bad opinions as people here saying Sunshine, Yoshi Story, Double Dash, Twilight Princess, and Nintendo Land are bad games let alone 'the worst' games for a company that's been making games for almost 40 years.
It's like saying Thor The Dark World is the worst superhero movie ever made.
It's like saying Thor The Dark World is the worst superhero movie ever made.
Wow I completely forgot about this game. Got it for my DS when I was a kid and I even knew then it was utter shit.
ITT: Underwhelming/mediocre games that people conflate as bottom of the barrel. Wonder how long it'll be until someone says Pokémon SwSh.
I'd probably say like Urban Champion or something. It's legitimately a dismal experience to play.
I'd probably say like Urban Champion or something. It's legitimately a dismal experience to play.
Here's some fun triva, the tied worst Nintendo published game of all time according to Metacritic was developed by From Software with a score of 37 ("Tenchu Dark Secret" on DS.)
https://www.metacritic.com/game/ds/tenchu-dark-secret
The game that tied with it? The 3ds port of Urban Champion.
https://www.metacritic.com/game/3ds/3d-classics-urban-champion
https://www.metacritic.com/game/ds/tenchu-dark-secret
The game that tied with it? The 3ds port of Urban Champion.
https://www.metacritic.com/game/3ds/3d-classics-urban-champion
I mean, I played Amiibo Festival. And I love Mario Party. And what makes Amiibo Festival impressively bad isn't just the amiibo part, but how they took essentially zero good ideas from the Mario Party series for that game. There's no minigames, a single board and no player agency outside of the still random turnip stock market. And you have to grind for ages to unlock anything in the game that still barely improves the experience. It's actually impressively dismal, in totally missing the potential of a Mario-Party-like game and also being an obvious cashgrab.
I mean, weird to follow that up with Mario Tennis being worse - the core of it is at least still fun to play with friends. Tbh, everyone talks about how it's an obvious tech demo for the Switch game but the mechanics really aren't that similar and are in some ways more interesting as a casual party game.
This is definitely the worst considering what was packed in with the Wii U.
As for actual games Urban Champion is utter garbage.
The worst of Nintendo is rarely bad, but lazy or uninspired. Kind of like Mario Tennis Ultra Smash or Amiibo Festival.
Does Sushi Striker count? For $50 no less! Oh, Nintendo. That's some f2p tier stuff right there. Good thing I just played the demo.
I know I'm in the minority, but liked Sticker Star and Star Fox Zero.
Does Sushi Striker count? For $50 no less! Oh, Nintendo. That's some f2p tier stuff right there. Good thing I just played the demo.
I know I'm in the minority, but liked Sticker Star and Star Fox Zero.
It's probably something I haven't even played tbh
But Mario Lost Levels is probably a good contender
But Mario Lost Levels is probably a good contender
It's not even weak by comparison. It's only weak if you stop after you beat the game. Kirby games SS and beyond have put a lot of focus on post game content, and Triple Deluxe is filled to the brim with it, especially post Updates.
AF looks worse if you look at it through the lens of Mario Party. That isn't what the game is trying to be. It's much closer to Fortune Street by design, and the "board" changes each month so there's a lot of variability. And some of the minigames are really fun, especially the later levels of Island Escape.
Eh, the level design in Star Allies is much weaker because the multiplayer aspect IMO
It also limited the boss battles, we didn't get any cool circular arena fights like Robobot had either, and there were less bonus postgame bosses too. Robobot had a bunch, and it was great.
It's AC: Amiibo Festival or Sticker Star.
Sticker Star was just terrible from start to finish, they achieved the impossible and made me absolutely hate a Paper Mario game. I loved PM, TTYD and SPM, even if SPM had a completely different gameplay style to the first two, at least its writing was fantastic and the gameplay was still fun. I was hyped for it, then it dropped and it was the first Nintendo game I've ever abandoned after less than 5 hours, I just couldn't deal with how bad it was.
In terms of both timing and execution though, AF wins easily. A cash-grab pile of shit that came to a floundering system that desperately needed a big seller, in a time when AC fans were hungry for a new, prettier instalment on a home console (especially after the AC Plaza looked so pretty; they had to have made those models for a reason, right? Right?!). It has no depth, no value and no point in existing.
Sticker Star was just terrible from start to finish, they achieved the impossible and made me absolutely hate a Paper Mario game. I loved PM, TTYD and SPM, even if SPM had a completely different gameplay style to the first two, at least its writing was fantastic and the gameplay was still fun. I was hyped for it, then it dropped and it was the first Nintendo game I've ever abandoned after less than 5 hours, I just couldn't deal with how bad it was.
In terms of both timing and execution though, AF wins easily. A cash-grab pile of shit that came to a floundering system that desperately needed a big seller, in a time when AC fans were hungry for a new, prettier instalment on a home console (especially after the AC Plaza looked so pretty; they had to have made those models for a reason, right? Right?!). It has no depth, no value and no point in existing.
It's crazy how many mediocre Pokemon spin-offs there are: Pokemon Dash, Rumble, Battle Revolution, Channel, Hey you Pikachu... the list just goes on and on.
Robot Block is a great name, even if the game itself is bad!
As for worst... Urban Champion is definitely up there. Ice Climber isn't great either, but it's at least good for some laughs. There's also stuff like Tennis and Golf. Not... bad, just very basic and boring.
A couple come to mind.
The first Steel Diver on 3DS is a contender, not because it's awful but more because it's really simplistic and not worth the $40 they were charging for it at launch. (To my recollection, it began development as a DSiWare game and the final product isn't much more ambitious)
Star Fox Zero definitely belongs in this list. It's an uninspired rehash of Star Fox 64 with a broken aiming system. They developed the game to make use of the Wii U GamePad, but the ideas they had were very poorly executed. (Again, aiming is completely broken)
The first Steel Diver on 3DS is a contender, not because it's awful but more because it's really simplistic and not worth the $40 they were charging for it at launch. (To my recollection, it began development as a DSiWare game and the final product isn't much more ambitious)
Star Fox Zero definitely belongs in this list. It's an uninspired rehash of Star Fox 64 with a broken aiming system. They developed the game to make use of the Wii U GamePad, but the ideas they had were very poorly executed. (Again, aiming is completely broken)
Sticker Star
It is not a game marred by glitches or technical shortcomings
It is a game that broken in its logic, a game that shouldn't have even left the planning stage.
To this day, it is the only game that I bought, played and returned in quick succession.
It is not a game marred by glitches or technical shortcomings
It is a game that broken in its logic, a game that shouldn't have even left the planning stage.
To this day, it is the only game that I bought, played and returned in quick succession.
Same lol. I basically never sell games. But I played Sticker Star for like 2 hours and just couldn't believe how bad it was. Really hurt as a Paper Mario fan.
Hopefully some day we get something good again.
A couple come to mind.
The first Steel Diver on 3DS is a contender, not because it's awful but more because it's really simplistic and not worth the $40 they were charging for it at launch. (To my recollection, it began development as a DSiWare game and the final product isn't much more ambitious)
Being a somewhat costly game doesn't makes it bad by itself. You can have a neat fun for it for a tenner. It's a game i'm surprised it got a somewhat sequel. It needs a continuation, somehow.
It isn't just that it's expensive, it's that there's very little to the game as well. Sub Wars, the free-to-play sequel, is a much more interesting game. The $40 they charged for the first one just made a very mediocre game even worse.
You normally don't see heavy sales on Nintendo products, this went on heavy fire sale before the first year of release.