21st May 2017, 9:47 PM
Splatoon is pretty good, I've been playing a bit of it each day in the few days since I got the game. It is somewhat addictive stuff, isn't it... I wish that Nintendo would have dropped the price, it's kind of crazy that it's still a $60 game for new copies so the used copies are also pricey, but I can't argue with the quality. The multiplayer is great fun; of the two (non-team-based, which I'll likely never be able to try) multiplayer modes, the main one where you pain the world does a good job of hitting that 'you need to map out everything' instinct of mine. Of course with the somewhat frustratingly short round timer trying to be thorough leads to not getting too far (forward in the map I mean) sometimes, but it's fun either way. :) As for the ranked mode, I like that that has some more varied objective types, but so far I've only seen one. It's good though. As for the single player, and that it has a single player campaign definitely was a factor to why I got the game, that seems good as well. Splatoon isn't amazing, I can see it getting repetitive after a while, but it's good and I like having it while there are still people playing; it's not hard to find a game.
As for what you're saying here about Peach, you're right that she should have been playable in many more Mario games, definitely. Apart from Mario 2 (USA) I've never been much of a fan of Peach, but she is great in that game and she's good in Mario 3D World as well. Floating is the best! On a related note, Rosalina is great (and maybe my favorite Mario character) and should have been playable in both Galaxy games. There is no good reason for her not to be playable in both of them.
Of course I would (and have previously) written similar things about Zelda, who should have been playable in a whole lot more Zelda games but keeps getting stuck as the "rescue the princess" character because Nintendo is sexist. Ugh.
Dark Jaguar Wrote:Tropical Freeze is really just feeding off female characters from previous games in the series (namely, one specific one), so it's hard to give it too much credit. Really though, the Country series in general has never had "rescue the damsel" as a plot in a single one of those games.I do think they intentionally added a female character back in to Tropical Freeze, though. Maybe they should get as much credit for that as they should be criticized for not having a female character in the first DKCR? Because apart from the DKC1/DKL1 all the other DKC (and DK64) games had female characters...
Quote:I mean, will Peach being a damsel in distress ruin Odyssey for me? Ha, no, I'm sure it'll still be great. It's just... you know, I had high hopes that Nintendo was moving on past that. I'm not expecting EVERY Mario game to let you play as Peach, just for them to put "save her" to bed for if not "forever" then "a good long while".Yeah, I also was really hoping that MAYBE Nintendo was finally considering moving on from their favorite very sexist storytelling trope, but no, here it is back again, and the female playable characters seem to be gone too. It's really disappointing, and will hurt the game (for me). Of course if it's amazing gameplay-wise it still could be one of the best games ever, but they need to stop using this kind of story, and as you say it's particularly unfortunate after seeing them finally take a few steps forward!
Quote:Rescuing those androgynous fairies worked just fine. Heck, a basic plot would be "Mario saves the real world from Bowser". I mean, that works. He could make a few new friends if he's gotta have that "personal connection", but heck had zero connection to Peach in the first Super Mario Bros, so that's hardly strictly necessary. Heck, Kirby helps out basically every random stranger that shows up at his door step, and I've got no problems with him acting as a hero. I just feel sorry for Peach's voice actor. I'm betting she'd prefer to make general grunts and "hah" sounds than shouting "MAAARIO WHERE AAARRE YOU?" every game. I guess my biggest gripe is that I kinda expected Peachy Toadstool would be a regular playable character after Super Mario Bros 2. Sure, she got captured again near the end of SMB3, and AGAIN at the very start of World, but then Super Mario RPG made her a playable character again after playing around with the "captured" trope, and that Nintendo Power comic also put her in a major roll. I recall being pretty disappointed going from Super Mario RPG's story to Super Mario 64. Great game, and the origin of the collectathon, but after toppling a world devouring evil so great even Bowser had to team up with me to beat it, just kicking Bowser out of Peach's house seemed lackluster by comparison. I really don't need every Mario game to have a story as developed as the Mario RPGs, but put some twists on the story now and again! At least Zelda is trying!"Save the kingdom from evil" is all the plot I've ever needed in a game. That was the basic plot of most of the games I imagined on paper as a kid, for example, because it's a good story that works! And looking at it today, it also benefits from not being frustratingly dated and sexist, either.
As for what you're saying here about Peach, you're right that she should have been playable in many more Mario games, definitely. Apart from Mario 2 (USA) I've never been much of a fan of Peach, but she is great in that game and she's good in Mario 3D World as well. Floating is the best! On a related note, Rosalina is great (and maybe my favorite Mario character) and should have been playable in both Galaxy games. There is no good reason for her not to be playable in both of them.
Of course I would (and have previously) written similar things about Zelda, who should have been playable in a whole lot more Zelda games but keeps getting stuck as the "rescue the princess" character because Nintendo is sexist. Ugh.