Sengoku Strider wrote:The designer specifically created it not to be a game though. It like, exists to be a purposeful refutation of the 'game' category.
Aye, the sliding scale of toys, sims, and games.
Nintendo's designers usually have a good grasp on how important it is to have toy aspects; a lot of their competition does the barebones minimum and ends up making just a hamster tunnel and/or a list of chores. Dual Hearts is a pretty good example of a stripped-down Zelda.
I always wonder a bit about how many people have played a Grand Theft Auto game, but have completed very few to zero missions in any of them. If Jesus appeared and told me it was 60%, I'd believe him easily.
BIL wrote:Yep! That's the one. So many killer setpieces and scenes in that game. In the best tradition of superhumanly hardcore JP action gaming, many approach a truly oneiric level of batshittery, despite being firmly mundane in-story. Soaring about on a telekinetically-improvised gunnery platform, singlehandedly annihilating what legitimately looks to be a small army. Unceremoniously drowning in a sea of blood, emerging as a howling kaiju for a duel with an even more monstrous foe. Chasing a stubbornly body-switching Brain That Wouldn't Die into the back of a cafe, cooking the poor bastard on the stove, then eating it for an HP restore. Even amongst all that, the Future Nightmare Helltrain is arrestingly odd, with its perfectly contrapuntal balance of apocalyptic visions and sprinting massacre to bittersweet BGM. (it's so cute how the kid totters along behind his mildly annoyed mom as she mows through the horde :3)
All delivered at arcade-tight pace. While its mechanics are undeniably Wild Guns x Panzer Dragoon, the fiery creativity and blistering pace is 110% Alien Soldier II. Like all the best console-original action games, it'd fit right into a cab with only the barest of tweaks.
The one in the second game is much weirder, though.
Even amongst all that, the Future Nightmare Helltrain is arrestingly odd, with its perfectly contrapuntal balance of apocalyptic visions and sprinting massacre to 