Games that you hardly enjoyed or just didn't enjoy that much.

Galacta Knight said:
Kirby: Nightmare in Dream Land

Now, don't get me wrong here. I'm sure it's not a bad game. The thing is, it's not interesting enough in things for me. It's Kirby's Adventure, so the abilities have literally only one move(barring a very selected few) and many of them are so bad ugh. The size proportion of things feels just awful(maybe because it's a NES title remade in GBA, but whatever), and the music is okay. Extra Mode feels just lazy. Kirby's Dream Land handled Extra Mode better than Nightmare did(unsure about Adventure), and it was literally the first title. KDL had different enemy and boss patterns and challenged you without cutting your HP. KNiDL merely cuts your health in half. Maybe I would be able to appreciate it more if I hadn't played Super Star Ultra first, but meh.
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Actually, come to think of it, KNiDL is meh, but the one I really have a problem with is Kirby's Dream Land 2.

It feels like it manages to handle partner-less abilities more primitively than Adventure. Animal partners are cool, I'll give you that. Level design feels just ugh sometimes(autoscrolling and only one of the three paths will not kill me for sure. I tried to find some pattern to it, but I just couldn't), and I stopped really enjoying it somewhere near the end. I didn't even bother to get to the real final boss because that would involve redoing levels and hoping to find that one hidden item and I just didn't feel like redoing levels.
 
Ephraim said:
I always found Fire Emblem: Shadow Dragon pretty meh. I liked it enough, reclassing was a good feature to introduce, but it felt really bare bones. I guess bringing the series back to its roots was kind of the point, but it still felt too stripped down in comparison to other games, especially in terms of characters. I couldn't really get attached to any of my units and almost all of them ended up as faceless drones, and that's without getting to the point that the game gives you literal faceless drones.
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I'm amazed you haven't mentioned the game's obsession with having you kill off units.
 
Lyn said:
Ephraim said:
I always found Fire Emblem: Shadow Dragon pretty meh. I liked it enough, reclassing was a good feature to introduce, but it felt really bare bones. I guess bringing the series back to its roots was kind of the point, but it still felt too stripped down in comparison to other games, especially in terms of characters. I couldn't really get attached to any of my units and almost all of them ended up as faceless drones, and that's without getting to the point that the game gives you literal faceless drones.
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I'm amazed you haven't mentioned the game's obsession with having you kill off units.
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Oh, yeah, there's that. I never really got invested into the game enough to bother figuring out who I need and who to murder to get the gaiden chapters.
 
Glitchy said:
Imagine if Link got a personality like Samus's in Other M. "I need authorization from Impa!"
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How did that whole authorization thing work exactly?

I'm genuinely confused.
 
Glitchy said:
Other M doesn't deserve to be mentioned in this thread because this thread is the "games you hardly enjoyed or didn't enjoy much" thread which would imply you enjoyed Other M even just a little bit.
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Ah so this Thread is like when people say "I could care less" instead of "I couldn't care less"
 
wow that is bullshit

In that case, you are "authorized" to continue hating this game.

Could you imagine if Mario games were like that? Needing Toad's authorization to use so much as a Super Mushroom?
 
Only if you aren't authorized to jump as that would make the game actually fun. No, you have to fall into the bottomless pit below.
 
Glitchy said:
Other M doesn't deserve to be mentioned in this thread because this thread is the "games you hardly enjoyed or didn't enjoy much" thread which would imply you enjoyed Other M even just a little bit.
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"Hardly" can be interpreted in different ways. In some ways it's used, it can even mean "not at all".

Can't the authorization be tied to finding certain codes, activation items, fuel, etc.? You know, maybe explain why Samus's weapons don't work because the deux ex machina planet environmental conditions have a different chemistry on how things work and so Samus has to find certain items in that planet.
 
Cave Story 3D. It was basically the same game but glitchier and reskinned to look like butt². Why did I even think it was a good idea to get it on release date? What is my life?