Michael-5 said:
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Mario Kart 8
Impressed but not that impressed. The gravity and other stuff still looks amazing and all sure, but in their effort to hit 1080p and 60fps, I feel they cut out too many effects. I was expecting more particles and water effects. I realize they still have about a year to fine tune, confident it'll be stunning by then, but for now? Decent visually. Gameplay is very solid, not many new elements introduced, but I feel that the turns have somehow improved.
3D World
Still though, it felt like playing the NSMB series of 3D Marios. Not a bad direction to go with if they want sales but still wish they'd have gone for innovation instead of trying to polish the existing to it's maximum limits. They hit the diminishing returns wall with the gameplay focus and I really felt it as I was watching people run through the levels.
Donkey Kong Country Tropical Freeze.
Well it's not Metroid, but Donkey Kong sure can crawl. Honestly, this demo was the biggest bummer of the 4. The demo was Wiimote+Nunchuk compatible only, and waggle was back. In terms of level design, it really goes back to Donkey Kong country returns but with a lot of new and unique ideas. Think of this as the Galaxy 2 of the Donkey Kong series, more polish and better music. (You can hear David Wise).
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It's funny because this is exactly what I wanted. Mario Kart recently has become too chaotic, too random, I liked the series so much better when it was just Super Mario Kart, MK64, and DS.
3D World, I feel this is what the game needs. When I saw demo's of SM3D World, I was just surprised at how polished and smooth the game was running. 60FPS and 1080p really make the game beautiful and stand out from current gen games.
Donkey Kong, wow, how is this a bad thing?
Everything you've said sounds AWESOME! I'm really looking forward to owning a Wii U.
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To an uninformed person all this screams rehash (except for MK.)
Nintendo isn't doing a good enough job promoting some of their "hardcore games". I mean after the direct, I showed a couple of my friends the X trailer and were really confused because they thought it was FFXV. "Dude this new Final Fantasy looks so good I'm totally getting a PS4"....
But yes, 3D World is designed brilliantly. It's almost perfect in terms of gameplay. It was really fun watching it all.
Donkey Kong is really uninspired though. It feels like the Prime 2 of the series. Harder, more concepts thrown in but not put to as good of a use at it can be.
