4th December 2007, 4:52 PM
What a happy accident Link's Awakening turned out to be considering how much I love that game's story. Then again, I tend to read in and add so much EXTRA to a storyline as I experience that what I remember being the story and what was actually said in the game are two totally different things. I mean I had deep meaning behind almost every element in the game, right down to the acorns of greater defense (the wood defending the land, as the Wind Fish remembers the time of the great deku tree). I don't normally read into it that much, but it was a DEMI-GOD'S DREAM WORLD, I HAD to there.
However, as Penny Arcade has recently made clear and with which I very much agree, different people play games for different reasons. They've both pretty much mellowed out and accepted the total lack of objectively determining what's good and bad about games. I play my games for the whole experience. I'm basically a red mage of taste. I love a good story when it's there. I love just the whole experience, as in how I love my kingdom hearts and that includes the cut scenes even if they are basically movies. I loved blocking all those blaster shots with my keyblades even if it was just a button combo press. The net experience gets me. I also love the challenge. For me, the best games bring as many different elements to the table at once as possible, even if a few are included in spite of being only roughly finished. Another might prefer consistancy though.
Um, anyway yeah, I never expect much from a Mario story except that it's enough to drive the action. If it's a little more engaging that's fine too though.
Incidentally, I'm sure some of you have beaten Galaxy by now. Do the koopa kids show up in it at all? I've been wondering ever since I saw all those classic koopa airships and that old music. I really don't want that bratty Bowser Jr to replace the far more interesting and varied koopa kids. Seriously he'd actually be more interesting if he had to compete with older siblings for attention. Eh this goes back to how I love the total experience of a game.
However, as Penny Arcade has recently made clear and with which I very much agree, different people play games for different reasons. They've both pretty much mellowed out and accepted the total lack of objectively determining what's good and bad about games. I play my games for the whole experience. I'm basically a red mage of taste. I love a good story when it's there. I love just the whole experience, as in how I love my kingdom hearts and that includes the cut scenes even if they are basically movies. I loved blocking all those blaster shots with my keyblades even if it was just a button combo press. The net experience gets me. I also love the challenge. For me, the best games bring as many different elements to the table at once as possible, even if a few are included in spite of being only roughly finished. Another might prefer consistancy though.
Um, anyway yeah, I never expect much from a Mario story except that it's enough to drive the action. If it's a little more engaging that's fine too though.
Incidentally, I'm sure some of you have beaten Galaxy by now. Do the koopa kids show up in it at all? I've been wondering ever since I saw all those classic koopa airships and that old music. I really don't want that bratty Bowser Jr to replace the far more interesting and varied koopa kids. Seriously he'd actually be more interesting if he had to compete with older siblings for attention. Eh this goes back to how I love the total experience of a game.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)