you're right. i should have responded properly or not at all. i'll go into greater detail:
super mario sunshine's water is purely a graphical effect, and an unremarkable graphical effect at that.
just one game with better ai? because i happen to be playing it right now, the original half-life. and what a difference from the rote patterned behaviors of pikmin!
neither the prime games nor eternal darkness are nintendo developed. or no, i guess they own retro now. but prime's "narrative" boils down to laughable deposits of pretend jargon, and eternal darkness is entirely, shamefully plagiarized.
metroid prime's soundtrack consists mostly of remixes from super metroid, and metroid prime 2's soundtrack -- from what i played -- consisted of vague ambient burbling. still: better than most of nintendo's stuff.
wind waker and pikmin are visually exceptional, true. paper mario too. but the mario spinoffs that make up the bulk of their catalogue have become aggressively, uniformly ugly. this wasn't always the case: the sprites in mario world or mario kart had idiosyncratic charm and curious detail.
super mario sunshine's water is purely a graphical effect, and an unremarkable graphical effect at that.
just one game with better ai? because i happen to be playing it right now, the original half-life. and what a difference from the rote patterned behaviors of pikmin!
neither the prime games nor eternal darkness are nintendo developed. or no, i guess they own retro now. but prime's "narrative" boils down to laughable deposits of pretend jargon, and eternal darkness is entirely, shamefully plagiarized.
metroid prime's soundtrack consists mostly of remixes from super metroid, and metroid prime 2's soundtrack -- from what i played -- consisted of vague ambient burbling. still: better than most of nintendo's stuff.
wind waker and pikmin are visually exceptional, true. paper mario too. but the mario spinoffs that make up the bulk of their catalogue have become aggressively, uniformly ugly. this wasn't always the case: the sprites in mario world or mario kart had idiosyncratic charm and curious detail.