Coolio McAwesome said:
Wat?
Even without the ridiculous loading times, you also have a broken item management system, hilariously bad voice acting, non-sensical dungeon designs, and backgrounds that make it difficult to tell where you can go and what you can interact with. I'm not quite sure how anyone can honestly say that the game looked "solid" or "fun."
You try making a Zelda game on a system with only two buttons... you can't have more than one item, since the other button has to be menu. And you can't have the map on a button, because it has no button... a minimap on screen might have been nice, but aside from that, they had to put it where it was. It'd have benefited greatly from being on a system with a controller with more buttons... even the NES has four, with start and select.
As for the load times, not doing a better job optimizing that, if it was possible, definitely seems to be the biggest problem with the game.
As for the dungeons... it really depends, do the 'warps' just move you in a straight line to the next room in that direction, or do they really warp you around the map? If it's the former, that's weird but seems like something you'd eventually get used to. If it's the latter, then yes, it's a problem.
backgrounds that make it difficult to tell where you can go and what you can interact with.
That didn't seem all that bad, really... not like the sidescrollers, for sure. There it looked awful. But in Zelda's Adventure? It really didn't look like a huge problem. Lots of games have minor issues with that stuff, but it doesn't ruin them all.
As for the voice acting/acting quality, it's early/mid '90s live-action video FMV. You don't expect quality from that stuff... and all you need to do to see how bad it could have been is watch the animated FMV scenes in the two sidescrollers, and imagine that with actors. But overall, it seemed like tolerable somewhat cheesy FMV stuff.
I mean, as I said, I'm not saying the game is Nintendo quality, it's obviously not. Compared to any other Zelda game, yeah, it's bad. But compared to other stuff, and not Zelda? I don't know, I'd have to play it... how would it compare to, say, Dink Smallwood on the PC, for instance? Probably worse due to the horrible loading, but I'd need to play it to see.
tenritsu said:
Couldn't help but feel that his "f-bomb" section of the 3rd part was a response to the people who thought he swore too much without warrant.
"HM, time to unleash some fbombs!" :lol
Still, good video.
Without the swearing he wouldn't be the AVGN... if you don't like it, why are you watching the videos?
I don't like everything about his videos -- I don't like the poop jokes or some of the skits with other characters (that Bugs Bunny video with the long fight was just stupid, for instance) -- but overall, the AVGN is great.
