If a game is good, is it really important to categorize it?

A game can be good no matter its coating. Yeah, games with nice looking coating are usually more appealing. But some games, like Fez and Axiom Verge manage to look really good, even if they go for the "nod to past games" route. If a game achieves something unique with the look its going for, like many indie games, I think the merit is just as high as the games that push a more "realistic" approach with a much higher budget. Donkey Kong Country Tropical Freeze is a looker, for sure. But it doesn't do anything unique or special compared to the other titles in the series. It's a very polished package of really good level design and visual eye candy, but it's also a little uninspired with the way it played it safe.

Sure, I would like if most games got as much care as a game like Ori got. But I'm not going to call the indie scene a cesspit because the games graphics don't all look like Rayman, Ori or DKC.

So will this game have support for the pro controller? Would be really weird if it didnt, but Nintendo UK says so.

I think this game doesn´t even use the gamepad for nothing. So it should support the pro controler yes.

Indie games can look beautiful, just look at Oddworld: New n' Tasty and Trine.

One look at that Super Metroid artstyle is enough to turn me away.

If you're going to copy from Metroid you might as well use the Zero Mission artstyle.

This game looks great. Very creative artistically, but it's not in your face about it. A lot of the yarn details in this game are quite subtle (I'll bet the game will have quite a bit of replay value for just going through levels and taking a closer look at how everything is related to arts and crafts). For example, the sand the commentator mentions in the beach level of the Gamexplain video is actually sponge. You can tell because it is porous and it is quite squishy when Yoshi jumps on it. I like how it is not so obvious though, it makes the focus on the game play.

Kirby's Epic Yarn was the most innovative 2d platformer I played in ages. Since this is the spiritual successor I always had high hopes for it. And since they fixed Epic Yarn's only flaw (no difficulty) it could really be great.

For this new long Yoshi analysis Gamexplain has invited someone who played a piece of the game:



"One of the best Yoshi games I´ve ever played"

Probably the game I'm most excited for this year. From the sounds of it, it's much better than Kirby's Epic Yarn. I'll be mad if the reviews are lower! :p

Most reviewers complained that Kirby's Epic Yarn was too easy, but this game seems to fix that. Some of them also complained that it wasn't really a Kirby game, but this game is most certainly a Yoshi game. The yarn aesthetic suits a Yoshi game better than a Kirby game.

I shouldn't put much faith in critics of today though...

Hahahaha

I though you were immune to cute things, dont know why xD