27th May 2004, 10:05 PM
Namco should stick Pacman Vs inside ALL their Gamecube games, including SC2. As it is, I have an average level platformer called Pacman World 2 due to wanting that game. It IS fun, about as fun as a game as deep as the best Atari 2600 games can be anyway, but it IS fun. It's certainly worth getting with another game anyway, so long as the other game is decent enough. The instruction booklet for the mini-game however wasn't even designed to fit correctly inside a GCN game case (which is stupid since it's a GCN exclusive anyway), so it'll be all bent up on one side.
One thing, I'd save Star Fox Adventures for later, when you want some eye candy or something. It has some very great hair and grass and general poky effects, but it's really just an average level game. The puzzles all solve themselves, and the game is very short, and very incomplete. You'll find plenty of areas where you'll be saying "shouldn't there be a boss here, and an ENTIRE dungeon here?". It's still fun enough, and better than a lot, and I mean a LOT of games out there, but it's not up to the AAA standards we have all grown accustomed to from the various big name companies. Generally, it really shows what happens when you fire the developers of a game 3/4 of the way through and they just wrap the whole thing up in a couple months.
To replace that, I suggest MGS:TS, or perhaps FF:CC, or F0:GX, or some other acronym you may have to figure out. Oh yes, Mario Sunshine is good fun, unless you were sick of the same type of gameplay by then like I happened to be at the time. It's a good game on it's own, it's just not original. So, if you already played Mario 64, DK64, and two Banjo games before playing this, and you happen to be at the point where you want something new, this won't exactly fill that niche. It is fun though if you WANT to play that sort of thing again (and let's face it, we all do sometimes).
One thing, I'd save Star Fox Adventures for later, when you want some eye candy or something. It has some very great hair and grass and general poky effects, but it's really just an average level game. The puzzles all solve themselves, and the game is very short, and very incomplete. You'll find plenty of areas where you'll be saying "shouldn't there be a boss here, and an ENTIRE dungeon here?". It's still fun enough, and better than a lot, and I mean a LOT of games out there, but it's not up to the AAA standards we have all grown accustomed to from the various big name companies. Generally, it really shows what happens when you fire the developers of a game 3/4 of the way through and they just wrap the whole thing up in a couple months.
To replace that, I suggest MGS:TS, or perhaps FF:CC, or F0:GX, or some other acronym you may have to figure out. Oh yes, Mario Sunshine is good fun, unless you were sick of the same type of gameplay by then like I happened to be at the time. It's a good game on it's own, it's just not original. So, if you already played Mario 64, DK64, and two Banjo games before playing this, and you happen to be at the point where you want something new, this won't exactly fill that niche. It is fun though if you WANT to play that sort of thing again (and let's face it, we all do sometimes).
"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)