| Michael-5 said: ... |
This is becoming comical on the bee suit front it's like you suffer from memory loss as it's all over your posts then in your next post you'll start off "you keep bringing it up". Yes level design has improve drastically I'll give you examples from recent videos and personal play, in one level you're on a moving train trying to navigate your way to the front while a parallel train bombards you with bullet bills and bombs, levels designed to allow a top down shooter experience as well as a racing style level which pays hommage to Mario Kart, a circus style stage where you use the acts to navigate through and from the demo I played it highlights the vision behind the cat power up as it grants access to parts of the level and routes you can't normally get to also highlight the multiple paths in levels it can also act as a difficulty regulating factor allowing players to bypass harder sections of a level this is far more practical then any of the power ups in SM64 which saw very minimal use, show me in SM64 where the was a top down shooter level. As for levels looking similar.
Again stop this vague stance, I can even highlight Galaxy's levels if you like such as spherical under water boss battle, the level where you have to navigate a course while balancing on a ball, the level where you have to guide Mario in a bubble past hazards, the spider like boss where you sling shot Mario to defeat him, the giant mechanical SOTC like boss who you navigate its body like an assualt course to get to its core etc... No 3DW does have an overworld it has a world map and ironic you've contradicted a much earlier post of yours by realizing 3DW is not like SM64.
Yes the is such a thing as second party it's a developer who is exclusively contracted for a certain duration on a platform but is not an actual subsidery of the company they develop for, Bungie were second party to Microsoft, Insomniac were second party to Sony, Silicon Knights were second party to Nintendo etc... when the contract ends the developer is free to either renew it or go their own way.
Another citrus fruit like a tangerine looks like a different sized orange yet it's not that's the who point your stance would declare it an orange because you choose to only look at the surface, if I gave someone Galaxy and 3DL they'd notice the differences quickly as well.
