No it’s not at all, because actions scenes can be in books, movies, TV, theatre, or video games. Whereas video games is the only medium that offers user control over the action happening.

Like 0% outrageous, right? You know, since it’s just a digital games storefront, and all awareness of how you bought the game disappears once you start playing the game.  Right?

That’s really interesting (particularly about the Square button). But if the first bit is true, why do 99% of Playstation games use X as confirm and O as cancel? I (or my household) have owned every home console from Sony and Nintendo, and from the beginning I’ve always thought Sony purposely made X confirm and O…

The Japanese word is irrelevant, since words are different in different languages.

Zero Mission is also incredible.  Definitely the second best 2D Metroid, though I would Prime ahead of it overall.

Also I think it’s worth revisiting that EGM opinion now because the Metroidvania subgenre has grown tremendously in the last ten years.

In 1998, major gaming magazine Electronic Gaming Monthly named it the greatest game ever, and I definitely agreed at the time, but that certainly has colored my opinion. Since then I’ve waited for a game to blow me away as much that did, and it hasn’t yet. Here are some that have come close, though:

Just played Demon’s Crest for the first time.  That game is great!  It’s such a thrill to play a really great game from the SNES library for the first time.  #mode7ftw

No I won’t.  I literally just have to scroll up to find two out of two games journalists who agree.  That’s 100%.  Small sample size, I admit, but it could not have been easier to find.

Eh I wouldn’t go that far. I liked Wooly World, and Crafted World is even better. Neither are anywhere near as good as the original, but they are both good games. I’d maybe even describe Crafted World as “great”. Maybe.

I think Bloodborne is too opaque story-wise to be the GOAT, but I do love it. Chrono Trigger is a legit choice, but I would tend to shy away from giving that honor to an RPG because that genre doesn’t take advantage of the medium as much as it could. Chrono Trigger is probably the best JRPG of all time, but if you…

Not only do I agree with MegaBlastoise, but Yoshi has never been done better. Also Metroid and Zelda, but those are more debatable (and I might argue Mario, as well). But there is absolutely no one who knows what they are talking about who would say there is a better Yoshi game than Super Mario World 2: Yoshi’s…

Is Super Metroid the greatest video game ever made? I think it’s time to have that discussion again. It’s been a while. I agree that it’s better than A Link to the Past, and really, how many other games can honestly claim that? Two?

I’d been flailing about trying to find a game to stick since I beat Three Houses ten days or so ago (too early to start my Blue Lions playthrough), but I finally landed on Shadow of the Colossus (PS4) and Persona 3 Portable, which a friendly commenter on the Tokyo Mirage Sessions Switch announcement article suggested…

Great!  I got to the end, but the extra levels are all too hard for me.

I’d wager it’s some sort of peripheral, or set thereof, that features slots to which one can affix JoyCons, thereby transforming the newly created peripheral/JoyCon hybird into a motion-sensing fitness device, with which one can play a new Nintendo-developed fitness-centered game or collection of miniature games that…

Yeah that’s what the consensus seems to be.  I’m fine with that.

Good to know. I actually bought P3P for the Vita after finishing P4G, but I was a little too exhausted with the franchise to start it at that time and never went back. And plus I recently hacked my Vita so I could use a MicroSD card and not have to keep deleting and redownloading games. So I will definitely think…

Ahhhhh such a bummer about the difficulty. I love action games and pinball, and the description of how they’ve blended them in the first half of this review makes it sound like I would eat this shit up so quickly. But I can’t abide punishing difficulty that sometimes comes down to luck, especially if it doesn’t get…

Sounds great!  I didn’t realize it had co-op, that definitely makes sense.  As does the console exclusivity.