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I thought the last thread was a good idea, but it got bogged down by Goldeneye talk.
Basically what games have you played on NSO where you were pleasantly surprised by how fun they still are to this day?
My pleasant surprise has to go to all the Black Box Games. When purchasing them separate on Wii, they really were not enough to justify a purchase but having played them in a subscription service, they're actually surprisingly fun timewasters. The whole score attack aspect is really fun when you just sit a few minutes on Donkey Kong or Clu Clu Land. I even started to note some nuances in the design of some of these blackbox games which usually takes me a while of investment before I start to do that. Now, some are better than others, don't get me wrong (be a while before I can ever get used to Ice Climber), but give a few of the black box games a try or several and it can be a right fun time.
A second surprise because I prefer the positive part to be longer than the negative part, but my second pleasant surprise goes to Shining Force 1 and 2. I am not a strategy person much, and these games are closer to a really big turn based RPG than a strategy like the old Fire Emblem games. But I seriously managed to enjoy just managing my mini army. There was no big character customization and micromanaging of stats, just moving the characters around on the board and manipulating the AI into making mistakes. But I loved the character designs, it's so cartoony but also kinda crude in a 90s American cartoon style with high fantasy species (big fan of the centaurs) and while the plots were nothing to write home about, I love how much the designers still tried to implement frequent humor and notable character quirks into the few moments these people talk.
Makes me wanna play Golden Sun now that I know they're both made by Camelot.
My pick for a disappointment has to go to Wario Land 3. It's a game I will come back to, but my first experience was not pleasant. Frustrations, frustrations, frustrations at having my time wasted and meandering around levels collecting treasures with such a limited moveset and tools. The transformations were punishments more than boons that just wasted your time. (Rewind does not fix my problems, it just makes me constantly start and stop, start and stop, start and stop.) And you can't say I wasn't fair to the game, because I got to the perfect screen. In the future I think I'll try just going the straightforward route and see if I prefer Wario Land 3 that way instead of 100%.
Basically what games have you played on NSO where you were pleasantly surprised by how fun they still are to this day?
My pleasant surprise has to go to all the Black Box Games. When purchasing them separate on Wii, they really were not enough to justify a purchase but having played them in a subscription service, they're actually surprisingly fun timewasters. The whole score attack aspect is really fun when you just sit a few minutes on Donkey Kong or Clu Clu Land. I even started to note some nuances in the design of some of these blackbox games which usually takes me a while of investment before I start to do that. Now, some are better than others, don't get me wrong (be a while before I can ever get used to Ice Climber), but give a few of the black box games a try or several and it can be a right fun time.
A second surprise because I prefer the positive part to be longer than the negative part, but my second pleasant surprise goes to Shining Force 1 and 2. I am not a strategy person much, and these games are closer to a really big turn based RPG than a strategy like the old Fire Emblem games. But I seriously managed to enjoy just managing my mini army. There was no big character customization and micromanaging of stats, just moving the characters around on the board and manipulating the AI into making mistakes. But I loved the character designs, it's so cartoony but also kinda crude in a 90s American cartoon style with high fantasy species (big fan of the centaurs) and while the plots were nothing to write home about, I love how much the designers still tried to implement frequent humor and notable character quirks into the few moments these people talk.
Makes me wanna play Golden Sun now that I know they're both made by Camelot.
My pick for a disappointment has to go to Wario Land 3. It's a game I will come back to, but my first experience was not pleasant. Frustrations, frustrations, frustrations at having my time wasted and meandering around levels collecting treasures with such a limited moveset and tools. The transformations were punishments more than boons that just wasted your time. (Rewind does not fix my problems, it just makes me constantly start and stop, start and stop, start and stop.) And you can't say I wasn't fair to the game, because I got to the perfect screen. In the future I think I'll try just going the straightforward route and see if I prefer Wario Land 3 that way instead of 100%.