/vr/ - Retro Games

>>9004382
Guess I'm killing myself now... Shit was weak AF.

>>8971512
While I absolutely love MM, I do genuinely prefer Bucky O'Hare. I think Bucky had the right idea with making abilities unlimited and built up with charge instead. I find this setup combined with Buckys more vertical and puzzle-oriented level design really encourages experimentation in a way MM games really don't. Most MM games have pretty situational abilities, and the addition of ammo, while understandable, makes you generally less likely to move out of the buster comfort zone. In Bucky, every cast member has their own unique thing, and the fact you can hotswap them on the fly (Something MM wouldn't do until SNES) makes it really flow well. Got a bunch of airborne enemies? Deadeye duck has the Anti-air you need. Some enemies just below you? Blinky. A bunch of enemies in a row? Willys shot will go right through them, etc. I still find fun uses for all the cast members on replays.

Since your abilities are effectively unlimited, they can also integrate these into the level design with wall climbing, super jumps and breaking blocks. Cool shit.

Also, NES-era Konami compositions have and always will stomp NES-era Capcom compositions:

https://youtu.be/iTZ8Oq2dafE

https://youtu.be/zHmtNmCzy_A

https://youtu.be/IDpWilXKPRY

https://youtu.be/2StDbSgBPhs

>>8971548
This part is genuinely shitty, agreed.

My favorite Mario RPG, just nailed everything. I love the fish-out-of-water comedy of setting it in the Beanbean kingdom which manages make it feel at once familiar yet different. I love how many varied biomes the game has and just the crapton of hidden shit off the beaten path you can find in the overworld. While its a bit easy, I think the enemy health pools were perfectly set up in this - later entries would bog standard fights down by inflating enemy hp so random mooks took longer to fight, and I never forgave them for fucking with the Bros. attacks and replacing them with tortorously drawn out minigames.

In SS, Bros attacks are quick and to the point, yet due to Advanced moves allow a surprising degree of nuance. By contrast, later entries would teach you a move, and it would function the same throughout the entire game.

Along with CT, its one of the most perfectly paced RPGs ever made - Never outstaying its welcome and constantly throwing new fun stuff at you. The humour still manages to get a chuckle out of me and it had yet to devolve into the "Hahaha fuck Luigi" schtick the later games relied so heavily on.

Also Shimomuras soundtrack is incredible, especially considering the hardware:

https://youtu.be/w_ZJCvqhCrE
https://youtu.be/NQEf2Cy_TlA
https://youtu.be/mYjk9TGkMcU
https://youtu.be/cIdyayBEMik

Tbh DK64 has sort of gotten a weird reputation - I remember how it came out, everyone loved it because it was the mother of all collectathons which was the shit at the time, then years later people started turning on the genre when we realized how filler-heavy it was as opposed to pure platforming and DK64 started getting lambasted. Replaying it last week, I sort of reappraised it since I enjoyed it more than I expected.

I think its an enjoyable game even today, but you really need to play it with the right mindset. Treat it as a casual romp where you explore at your own leisure. If you just go around a level, occasionally swapping after spotting a few bananas you want to pick up and then maybe linger a bit to explore new areas, you start making a mental map of the level of how you need to go through it to progress. This process is genuinely a lot of fun and helps make the world feel bigger and more intricate - But it really only works if you play it casually. As soon as you start going for 100% you start running into tedious filler where you inanely comb a level for bananas you don't even need and it just sucks the fun out of it. Just go for the minimum 100 bananas, and then don't even worry about the rest - Just enjoy the atmosphere and boss fights.

>>8276565
My bad, meant Kirkhope obviously. Thanks for pointing it out.

>>1992679
>Best Game
Super Bomberman 4/5 (With Super Multitap)
>Best Soundtrack
Bomberman Hero, easy

>>1958146
don't stop giving me those

>>1858510
>Enjoy retro games is not okay unless you bought them when they came out.

>>1853185
If you don't like Metroid, you don't like Metroid. If you honestly tried your best at giving it a shot and you want to skip, just play Super Metroid if you want. There's no use playing a game you're not enjoying.

And please refrain from having a negative opinion on a retro game. It hurts some people's feelings here.

>>1592297