Video games are generally better when the player and enemy capabilities are balanced properly against each other, rather than just chucking in things that feel good on a surface level without much thought as to how they affect the end result. I think the original Super Mario Bros is a better game than roughly one third of its sequels for similar reasons; sometimes more isn't better.
The removal of the universal run was the one detail in the pre-release materials that gave me confidence in these developers and hope that they were actually putting a lot of thought into the combat and enemies. They delivered spectacularly.
SOR3's star system also sucked, and I don't know what "Z attacks" mean.
No one said anything about chucking in a feature.
The star attacks in sor3 sucked. Most people never got to see them cause they required extra lives. That was an awful system and I'm glad they left it in the past. I get you're a purist and that's fine. The original trilogy will always be there for you to play and from the way you are talking you will never be satisfied with a new entry.
I knew this thread would bait and trigger fans like you and that's why I put boomer in the title.
Just because you could never git gud doesn't make the SoR3 Star system bad. You just need to git gud.
It's actually pretty brilliant in how fair Sega made it. You are rewarded for not dying by getting extra stars as you progress, giving you extra abilities and attacks up to three (for those that don't know how it was). If you die, it is fair in that you don't lose all your stars - just one. Thhat allows you to get a replacement after making more progress.
On top of that, it is fair in that you can still access all of these extra moves by inputting a SF/MK command instead of the simple forward forward attack sequence possible with stars. These Z attacks were only accessible on the Genesis if you had a six button controller., which was great because sometimes you strategically wanted to use a Level 2 Z-attack (for example) instead of Level 3 when you maxed out the stars.
SoR4? Get a star, nuke the area =/. A completely brainless change from what was a great, tactical feature. The game will never live on with an unofficial SOR:R2 like the classics, sadly. It's just another decent beat 'em up.
In any case, I'm not sure what the boomer tag has to do with any of this, nephew. I'm a Gen-Xer, but if that kind of nonsense helps you sleep warm at night, go with it I guess.
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