15th May 2003, 4:55 PM
Hmm... I still haven't seen enough of Kameo to really give any opinions on it, but since I didn't enjoy Conker I likely won't enjoy these two games. I certainly still want the next PD though.
Oh and ABF, I agree with you about SFA. It COULD have been a great game if Rare actually managed to finish it, instead of wrapping it up and sending it on it's way. However, so far SFA is the worst Rare game I own. One major thing about SFA is how the puzzles all solve themselves. Maybe if huge icons saying "THIS IS WHAT YOU NEED TO INTERACT WITH" didn't keep appearing over things that ALL LOOK THE SAME the puzzles could have been challenging. A Zelda style game is all about the puzzles after all. Even the fighting (especially boss fights) is just an action oriented puzzle. Had Rare worked on the game for another half year to finish it up, and left out all those FAR too obvious interaction clues (oh another thing, the item menu shouldn't have autoselected the right object to use the second you used the menu), it really could have been great. That's the sad thing.
Oh and ABF, I agree with you about SFA. It COULD have been a great game if Rare actually managed to finish it, instead of wrapping it up and sending it on it's way. However, so far SFA is the worst Rare game I own. One major thing about SFA is how the puzzles all solve themselves. Maybe if huge icons saying "THIS IS WHAT YOU NEED TO INTERACT WITH" didn't keep appearing over things that ALL LOOK THE SAME the puzzles could have been challenging. A Zelda style game is all about the puzzles after all. Even the fighting (especially boss fights) is just an action oriented puzzle. Had Rare worked on the game for another half year to finish it up, and left out all those FAR too obvious interaction clues (oh another thing, the item menu shouldn't have autoselected the right object to use the second you used the menu), it really could have been great. That's the sad thing.
"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)