• john89@lemmy.caBanned
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    4 months ago

    Good. The game looked good from the outside, and it was definitely something I wanted to buy as a kid.

    Real sad it turned out how it did, but I think they can make something incredible if they took another crack at it.

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      5 months ago

      The game’s not awful, it’s just broken. The ridiculous quantity and length of load screens was obviously avoidable. Levels try a lot of things that work fine most of the time, but suffer hilarious bugs for no sane reason. There were surely unaddressed playtester notes about how annoying certain bosses were - both for gameplay, and for repetitive audio barks.

      I dunno that it needs a full from-scratch remaster, but it could definitely stand some professional updates. Or drop the assets into a new engine so it can take fresh shaders and feel like it’s copying Mario Odyssey instead of Mario Sunshine.