A brand new month began up this week. Now that we’re in February, we wish to know what you’ve been enjoying.
Have you ever been enjoying Hearth Emblem Have interaction? Or how about GoldenEye 007 on Nintendo Swap On-line? Possibly you’re catching up on one thing you’ve gotten in your backlog? Irrespective of the case, tell us within the feedback under.
Spotlight from final week’s matter: Is GoldenEye 007 nearly as good as you bear in mind it?
Pickled Perspective
The sandbox-like design of every stage is why I take pleasure in revisiting Goldeneye, Excellent Darkish, and Time Splitters 2. I feel controls and graphics would possibly take getting used to, but when newcomers give GE an opportunity, they could discover a considerably distinctive expertise in comparison with extra trendy linear designed FPS video games.
Stephen Yap
For essentially the most half, I’d say that I loved (re)enjoying Goldeneye 007 as a lot as my younger self then. The controls have been undoubtedly “tough” for me to adapt to after at the moment’s FPS controls, the dearth of AI Bots possibility (like its 2000 religious successor Excellent Darkish) was a bummer, and the escort segments have been a ache within the [BURP]…however on the flipside, the cheats have been very enjoyable to mess around with and the soundtrack left me amazed.
Total, nice recreation (although I want Excellent Darkish nowadays for the gameplay and enhancements) and it was simply as enjoyable and nostalgic enjoying it once more in any case these years; even to this present day, Goldeneye 007 on N64 continues to be my favourite 007 recreation in my guide (The World Is Not Sufficient wasn’t unhealthy and had loads of neat concepts, but it surely didn’t impression me as a lot. Nightfire had lots going for it, but it surely felt like “simply one other recreation” of TWINE. The 2010 Goldeneye 007 reboot on Wii was fairly respectable in its personal barrel, however the entire thing felt like a Name of Obligation mod with out a lot of something in the best way of content material).
Now then, when’s Mario Occasion 3 coming, Nintendo?
arrjayjee
As soon as I modified the controls sufficient to really feel pure to me in 2023 (left stick transfer, proper stick look, ZR to fireside, ZL for ADS, and many others) it made me realise one factor: map and recreation design has gone so effing backwards. These sandbox ranges with a number of goals really feel like locations to discover and play, they’re not simply corridors and capturing galleries (OK, some maps like Silo really feel like that at instances).