So Nintendo's games are for children? Haters were right?
Yet they are reviewed with the industry standards in mind. Which means that they critically do not compete with Dora the Explorer and other E rated games but The Witchers and Bloodborne of the world. Problems shouldn't be slept under the rug because "the games are for everyone".
Not really. Almost all the moons are easy. The harder to find pipes and doors usually just lead to 1 minute long half baked platforming levels that would be 1/3 of a level in 3D world (and those levels were already short and somewhat easy). Almost all of the platforming ideas in the game arent fully explored and stop right when theyre about to hit their stride.
From where I am sitting, it seems that all of these titles DO compete with each other -- as interactive entertainment fighting for consumers' time and money and attention. If the next Dora game turns out to be a truly engaging experience for players of all ages, then I sure hope it takes mindshare away from other games regardless of their genre or rating.
a unified world system (the castle), and the general feeling of the levels having specific goals and not just "find this moon here or this moon there".
This is the truth. There where so many awesome ideas in the game but they were not expanded upon. The game lacks almost any lengthy platforming and almost none of it is challenging
Mario's moveset is incredibly versatile for only 3 buttons. Also you can beat the game capturing only a handful of mandatory creatures (lightning poles and bosses).
Really? You can beat Bowser's level without capturing the woodpecker? Frog is required too. In any event, is not about beating a game but about playing it. Tons of moons are capture reliant. I liked the game, it's an 8 for me. I just wanted more vanilla Mario moons especially in the grey pipe levels.
You can skip the frogs in the early area that I think you're thinking of.
Last time I checked there were around 15 mandatory captures, beating the game with +450 moons. What I'm trying to say is that you can give challenges such as this to yourself, se how many "capture intended moons" can you get doing sick jumps. In the end, it's about how you decide to play the game.
Generic or not, Steam Gardens is very memorable and exactly the kind of thing I found myself humming after the fact.
I don't think Odyssey's post game content constitutes anywhere near "a whole other half" of the game. It's certainly nothing compared to 3D Land (or World, I assume, but I haven't got round to playing it yet).
