I love Kid Icarus's presentation and difficulty scaling (because that shit is the bomb and all games should use it), and at the beginning I didn't feel like the control was that detrimental to a left-hander but later on in the game it did start to get on my nerves.
...Alright, I'll say this here since no one really reads this corner of GAF, but I don't like the soundtrack as much as everyone else does. My bf and I listened to the JP Club Nintendo soundtrack together because he looooves Sakuraba, and while I fucking love my Koshiro... it's not his best work. It isn't Sakuraba's best work. It isn't Mitsuda's best work but he's been downhill since Xenogears and Chrono Cross anyway (with only some standout tracks in Arc Rise Fantasia). Eh. I dunno what it is about that soundtrack that I don't like.
Maybe this is like the feeling I have for the Nier Soundtrack, I know it's good, there are a few tracks I enjoy but I ultimately don't care much for it, at least not to the level of its praise then again i'm in hotter water here since it tends to be considered the best soundtrack of this generation.
...You did say we were safe in this corner of GAF right? yeah, of course we are after all no one has come down on the heathens here who don't like the soundtrack to- aww you already know what i'm going to say here.
Back to KI:U and its soundtrack, I guess it's my favourite this year, I mean I do like it a lot but ultimately I don't really feel it as a "number 1", no soundtrack this year has really blown my socks off as it stands, a bit like the games themselves then in that respect.
I heard that it's not much of a game? I said to myself that I'd give AC3 a rest today and go for either Journey or TWD, but I dunno.
Not being much of a game is the new being a game!
No but really i've enjoyed a fair amount of games that are lacking in outright traditional gameplay, quite a few from this year in fact so really these games thrive based on the emotional reaction you elicit from them, so often it's either the best thing since sliced bread or you stand by bewildered while everyone cries tears of unparalleled joy about the emotional rollercoaster they experienced that meant nothing much to you at all.
You can beat Journey pretty swiftly so you might as well get it out the way, on one hand you may fall into the undying love crowd in which case it was more than worth trying it, alternatively you end up like me thinking that it at least looked nice and was pretty enjoyable for its duration but nothing more.....where's
MY emotional breakthrough and life changing experience?!
Unfortunately the soundtrack doesn't do much for me either, actually that's a good point to add, worth you checking it out for its SotY potential, it's one of the frontrunners in that department as well I believe.
Oh, speaking of a Bah Bah game. NSMB2 controls well--way better than NSMB1, but I don't get its premise. So... it's coins? Collect all the coins? What happens when I do collect all the coins? I don't get the overall objective here. Can't I just have fun with powerups?
You collect the coins to feel good about yourself I guess? there's an awful title screen based reward for hitting the million mark that i'll likely never bother reaching but I found the whole coin angle kind of enjoyable even if it ultimately serves no real purpose outside of coin rush which would be a fantastic high score mode if it weren't for some brutal flaws in its setup (coin cap, randomized levels and of course no leaderboards or anything but the streetpass functionality but Nintendo gonna Nintendo).
But ultimately there's something oddly satisfying as you explode a group of enemies into coin bonuses with the golden flower whilst sprinting along with a coin block head as nearby pipes start vomiting coins all over the shop.
Shame that the difficulty kind of caps at the Ice World and never steps up much further and that includes the star world/world 9 stages.
And there's no way in Hell I'm willing to slog through that game again.