Noneya Bidness

I love all Zelda mainline entries, but this and Windwaker are my favorite.

Excellent period piece. I've watched it multiple times and it remains enjoyable.

It's an absolutely beautiful world that you can tell the design team poured their heart and souls into. The gameplay is varied and highly customizable. The skill system needs a bit of work (as to play a different play style you need to start a different game. You cannot reset your stats and there is no way to know a power is useless without using valuable points to obtain it.), but is solid. I enjoy that when you kill an enemy, they stay dead. No respawn for fodder. That is the end of the praise for it. Now the reason it ABSOLUTELY deserves 1-star. You basically play as a ®€+@®d€d rocket raccoon (from the broken English, to being a racoon who can build powerful weapons on the fly and is excellent in combat.). And by that, I mean, although words like "strong" exist and are used in-universe by the narrator, "stronk" is the modus lingua. Along with many other idiotic perversions of language absolutely drenching the game. That's not where the perversion ends... It is HEAVILY morality based, but not your morality...unless you think people who eat meat SHOULD be killed...yes, REALLY. And believe climate change and industry is innately destructively evil. Oh, and apparently nature is a deity and evolution its prophet. Good choices are penalized as "dark aura" and poor choices are given "light aura." The childish, almost "special needs" feel to the dialogue and plot points, alone, knock off 2 stars from what could easily have been an 4-star+ game. But then the ceaseless preaching of perverted ideals that are both contradictory and inane is beyond the pale. If you keep it on mute, and skip through the dialogue focusing purely on gameplay, you can enjoy it. Though it gets a little long in the tooth and repetitive (so many similar "puzzles" and quests.). However, if you ACTUALLY care about story, HARD pass.

Definitely dated (watching it now.), and the choreography isn't up to par with today's standards, but the cast and story are both big positives. I picked up the series for $1.49 and it's certainly worth the price (insanely it sells for nearly $100 on auction, regularly.). If you can find it, and you enjoy MK, and cheesy 90s martial arts shows you may just enjoy it...a lot.

You want Tenchu on the Switch? This is Tenchu on the Switch. Far more buggy, and often times more repetitive, but the mechanics are fun and there is a large degree of freedom in play style. (Not so much in character customization.)

Take a nap, it'll be a better experience.

Not worth the time. Basically just a new hope, but written and directed by kindergarteners.

It felt like the classic film series, but with modern production values. If you enjoy the genre, Blind Fury (1990) is also a worthy inclusion. My only disappointment is that it never got another installment.

Incredible open world game. Any praise I give it, you'd have heard a thousand times before, so I'll nitpick on things. The character creator isn't as versatile as a Bethesda cac, but it is far easier. The locked areas hamper the exploration experience, and I find myself doing the alohomara quest as fast as I can, so I can ACTUALLY play the game and not be locked out while exploring. Saying the spells nearly every time, like Revelio, becomes a bit monoatanus, and it'd be nice for it to remain active for longer. Having to get about half way through the game just to unlock broom flight and there being no quidditch isn't that big of a gripe, it does give it the feel that you're actually advancing, but I like to fly, so... Sarona in the three broomsticks having a dude's voice was unsettling. I didn't care all too much for Goblins being the main protagonist, as it kinda felt like picking on an already oppressed class. Overall, I've played it through to near 100% completion, twice (griffindor and Slytherin), and will likely do a again and maybe a fourth time to see every house and special quest. Though, that leads me to my final small gripe...a single special quest for a game this large and emersive to separate the houses seems like wasted potential. I cannot wait for the sequel.

Yo, dawg! I heard you like mini games. So, we went ahead and put minigames inside of your minigames! About sums this game up. There is a ton of easter eggs/classic NES/pop culture references at every turn. The gameplay is great, on its own. Beautiful modern scenery and classic styling/audio for the characters. It is the best of Nastalgia for those of us who grew up in the before time. It comes at you fast and frequent with new mechanics and objectives and you can feel a bit overwhelmed with the sheer amount of content. This game will give you as much as you want to take from it. Mint Rocket (a studio I had not heard of before this game.) really hit this one out of the park. It's made by gamers, for gamers and it is a true successor to the NES games of old.