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| JWeinCom said: Similar complaints were made about Wonderful 101 and Kid Icarus Uprising, so I wasn't really too concerned about the criticism. It seems that reviewers, and many gamers as well, just don't like dealing with new control schemes. This became abundantly clear with Bayonetta and Wonderful 101... Wonderful 101 is incredibly similar to Bayonetta 2. It has the same combo system, rating system, a lot of the same mechanics (down to witch time, magic meter, stinger, rising attacks, etc. etc.). The games were of similar lengths and had a similar amount of extra content and unlockables. Only major difference, aside from aesthetics, was that Bayonetta 2 used a traditional heavy light attack system while Wonderful 101 decided to do something different that, after practice, gives the player far more options than in Bayonetta. Both wonderful games, and somehow one is scored significantly higher than the other. Cause people don't like learning new things I guess. I only played the demo of starfox, which seemed quite intuitive, so I can't tell if this is the case, but I'm happy with it so far. |
As someone who adores Bayonetta 2 and strongly dislikes Wonderful 101, controls and aesthetics both played a part, but weren't the only factors.
I'll come straight out and say I hated the control scheme, (drawing on the Pad didn't seem to register my shape properly half the time, drawing with the sticks felt slow and clumsy, and both kept breaking the flow of combat with awkward pauses) and despised the art style. (I don't mind cartoonish graphics when done well but W101 just looked tacky in my opinion)
But other presentational issues also presented significant hurdles. The fixed camera was often annoying, the framerate could dip south of 30fps, and my blows always felt impotent, with little sense of real impact.
But the single biggest fault with the game was the crowd system; it was just so confusing to look at both from a graphical and a gameplay point of view. All these little figures all jumping and swarming around made it way more difficult than it should've been to judge my position and hitboxes, and to read the battlefield at a glance. Plus having to run around and collect your stunned members after being hit was massively irritating.
