Favorite Games Ever (Besides Ninja Gaiden, Obviously)

[Dr. Ensatsu-ken]

Yeah, but I'll take bad designs over boring gameplay and level design, any day. I HATE fighting the headcrab enemies because there are too many of them and they don't have interesting AI or anything like that. They also remind me way too much of The Flood from Halo, which isn't a good thing at all.

[Foggle]

Yeah, but I'll take bad designs over boring gameplay and level design, any day.

Both of which Xen also has.

I don't know, I thought Ravenholm had great level design, personally. I mean, it definitely dragged on for a bit too long, but the traps were really fun to use against the enemies, and I liked the horror atmosphere a lot.

[Dr. Ensatsu-ken]

I just found it to be tedious after the first 10 minutes.

[Foggle]

Yeah, that's understandable. It's not really one of my favorite levels or anything, but I do think it's well-designed for what it is.

[Spark Of Spirit]

Sequels surpassing the previous game:

Sonic the Hedgehog 3 & Knuckles
Super Mario Bros. 3 and World
Rolling Thunder 2 and 3
Adventure Island II and III
Golden Axe: Revenge of Death Adder
Kirby Super Star, Return to Dreamland, and Triple Deluxe
Earthbound
Mario Kart Double Dash!!
Metal Slug X and 3
Sengoku 3
Samurai Shodown 2
Fatal Fury Real Bout Special
Garou Mark of the Wolves
House of the Dead 2, 3, and Overkill (never played 4)
Virtua Cop 2 and 3
Time Crisis 2
Yakuza 2 (if the original had the gameplay of 2, it would probably be the best, though)
Paper Mario: The Thousand Year Door
Pikmin 2
New Super Mario Bros. Wii and U
Super Mario Galaxy 2
Super Mario 3D World
Luigi's Mansion: Dark Moon
Rayman Legends
Ratchet & Clank: Going Commando and Up Your Arsenal
Ratchet & Clank Future: A Crack In Time
Sly Cooper: Thieves in Time


Sequels not as good as the original
Super Mario Bros. The Lost Levels
Tiny Toon Adventures 2
Metal Slug 4
Shock Troopers: Second Squad
Contra Legacy of War and C: The Contra Adventure
Super Mario Sunshine
Super Paper Mario and Sticker Star
Ever single Mario Vs. Donkey Kong game past the first one
Sly 3
Jak 3 (and overworld missions of 2)
Mario Kart Super Circuit and 64
Yoshi Story
Kirby 64

Off the top of my head.

[gunswordfist]

I forgot about Earthbound and The Metal Slug games. I'd also put Metal Slug XX on the list. I thought you borderline hated The Lost Levels and Sly 3?

[Spark Of Spirit]

I don't like either, but they came to my mind while I was writing it. Lost Levels contains every sort of platformer level design that I hate and Sly 3 is barely even a platformer at all yet it's advertised as being one.

[gunswordfist]

Then they should have been in Disappointing Games. 

[Spark Of Spirit]

Meh.

[gunswordfist]

Grumpy old man.

[Spark Of Spirit]

Yoshi's New Island should be listed now that I'm playing it.

[talonmalon333]

Yoshi's New Island should be listed now that I'm playing it.

In which list?

[Spark Of Spirit]

Yoshi's New Island should be listed now that I'm playing it.

In which list?

Disappointing sequels.

[talonmalon333]

I still think they should stop trying to top Yoshi's Island (since they apparently can't) and go for something different. From the look of things, the yarn game could be the one to do that.

[Spark Of Spirit]

The thing is, it's a step down from the original in every way (and why does Yoshi have feet the size of cars?) which makes me wonder why exactly this game was made in the first place.

It's not a bad game (it's actually a decent game), but there's no spark here at all. The gameplay is slower, controls are stiffer, the music is atrocious, the story is THE SAME THING FOR THREE GAMES IN A ROW WITH THE SAME CUTSCENES, and the level design is boring. Yoshi's Island DS was mediocre and this is just more of that. I don't know why they hired the same people to make this game that did that one.

But it could be worse. It could be Yoshi Story.