20th June 2018, 8:23 PM
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Splatoon 2 - My first impressions of this game is that it's really good, but I like the controls better in the first game. The Wii U gamepad is used to great effect in Splatoon, and this is definitely a worse game without it. Sure, you do still have motion controls, though they seem much more sensitive this time and require adjustment to feel right, while in the first game they are perfect without any adjustment needed, but losing the map on the Gamepad screen is a big blow. Now you need to hit a button to see how the match is going or warp to an ally, and it's a problem which makes it much harder to know how a match is going while it's in progress, since you are often not going to have time to hit that button, while just glancing down at the Gamepad is easy. Splatoon 2 is one of the few games which never will be as good on one screen and shows the advantage of two.
Otherwise though this game looks fantastic, and Splatoon's a really great game so that is very good.
Fire Emblem Warriors - This is a Musou game, but with Fire Emblem. It's fun, but I don't like it as much as Hyrule Warriors; as great as FE is it's no Zelda, and that shows throughout. The character selection is part of the problem, as this game mostly draws from Fire Emblems Awakening and Fates, to the exclusion of most all of the older games except for the original FE (Shadow Dragon). That leaves out a lot of games, including my favorites on the GBA, so that's unfortunate. The plotline explanations for how these people from different worlds end up together is worse than it is in Hyrule Warriors, too. Still, it's a Warriors game so it's the same simple fun as usual for the franchise. I do like that you can give your other characters in a battle movement orders on the pause screen, for a FE-like touch, though, and it is fun to play. Of the Nintendo Warriors games Hyrule Warriors is the best one, but this is worth playing too if you enjoyed that game.
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Splatoon 2 - My first impressions of this game is that it's really good, but I like the controls better in the first game. The Wii U gamepad is used to great effect in Splatoon, and this is definitely a worse game without it. Sure, you do still have motion controls, though they seem much more sensitive this time and require adjustment to feel right, while in the first game they are perfect without any adjustment needed, but losing the map on the Gamepad screen is a big blow. Now you need to hit a button to see how the match is going or warp to an ally, and it's a problem which makes it much harder to know how a match is going while it's in progress, since you are often not going to have time to hit that button, while just glancing down at the Gamepad is easy. Splatoon 2 is one of the few games which never will be as good on one screen and shows the advantage of two.
Otherwise though this game looks fantastic, and Splatoon's a really great game so that is very good.
Fire Emblem Warriors - This is a Musou game, but with Fire Emblem. It's fun, but I don't like it as much as Hyrule Warriors; as great as FE is it's no Zelda, and that shows throughout. The character selection is part of the problem, as this game mostly draws from Fire Emblems Awakening and Fates, to the exclusion of most all of the older games except for the original FE (Shadow Dragon). That leaves out a lot of games, including my favorites on the GBA, so that's unfortunate. The plotline explanations for how these people from different worlds end up together is worse than it is in Hyrule Warriors, too. Still, it's a Warriors game so it's the same simple fun as usual for the franchise. I do like that you can give your other characters in a battle movement orders on the pause screen, for a FE-like touch, though, and it is fun to play. Of the Nintendo Warriors games Hyrule Warriors is the best one, but this is worth playing too if you enjoyed that game.
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