Review RxBrad 3/5 · Feb 7, 2022
Nostalgic Sadism
After putting this game on the back burner for half of a year, I finally powered through and finished getting 3 stars on every challenge.
If you're the type of person who really likes having that speed-runner part of your brain tickled from time-to-time, this is a nice run down memory lane. Me? I killed that part of my brain …
After putting this game on the back burner for half of a year, I finally powered through and finished getting 3 stars on every challenge.
If you're the type of person who really likes having that speed-runner part of your brain tickled from time-to-time, this is a nice run down memory lane. Me? I killed that part of my brain with alcohol & about 12hrs of Bloodborne years ago.
Some of the remixes between different classic NES games were neat & interesting. Some of them, however (I'm looking at you, non-jumping-Link trying to play Donkey Kong), were just plain cruel.
For the games I was familiar with, doing all of the quick little challenges was fun. I'd never played a Kirby game before, and the little Kirby sections were... intriguing, I guess.
Some of these games, however, were never actually good, and didn't deserve to be resurrected in 3DS form (I'm looking at you Kid Icarus, Balloon Fight, and the non-Super original Mario Bros). Many NES games were hard because they relied on tons of memorization & pattern recognition. Others -- like Mario Bros -- were hard because the controls just sucked in a really non-fun way.
Also, Zelda II was the best Zelda. Fight me.
