HIGH Finally, an MMO that demands my full attention and punishes me for slacking off
LOW Hulking, solid rock men. Curvaceous, svelte rock women. Grotesque, fiendish demon men. Curvaceous, svelte demon women. Refined, uncanny mechanical men. Curvaceous, svelte mechanical women…
WTF Yet another highly advanced civilization leaves all their stuff lying around and then vanishes.
HIGH The new, more expressive character models.
LOW Jumping through ridiculous hoops for 100% completion.
WTF The new quick recovery feature pauses the game everywhere except the Thunder Plains in FFX.
HIGH Gradually filling in the stage select screen's beautiful stained glass window.
LOW Doing secret rooms out of order creates an inconsistent difficulty curve.
WTF Die enough times in a room, and the "Quit" option turns into "Rage Quit"
HIGH The tiny details, like how my character slouches when tired and out of breath after a harrowing fight
LOW Trying for the umpteenth time to lead an NPC to a boss fight, only to watch her charge off and kill a monster halfway across the zone.
WTF 50 hours played online, and not a single invader trying to kill me?
HIGH BASE jumping without the risk of breaking every bone in my body.
LOW Little challenge, repetitive music, short length.
WTF So I guess Dracula just woke up one day and decided to go BASE jumping?
HIGH Someone had fun making this game, and it really shows…
LOW …Except in the unwieldy underwater segments.
WTF Of all the Disney women Mizrabel could go after, she chooses the anthromorphic mouse? I don't even want to know what's about.
By and large, I am not a card game player.
All of my experience with card games comes from a brief attempt at Magic: The Gathering in high school and a lot of bored Saturday mornings with Yu-Gi-Oh! when I was too lazy to change the channel.
Random attempts to enter the genre have usually defeated me with dense rules, obtuse jargon, constant mechanic changes, and the prospect of buying hundreds of dollars worth of cards. None of these things attracted me as a potential new player.
HIGH Diving into the Money Bin!
LOW Managing to glitch the game so that I would have to exit and restart a stage manually, over and over again.
WTF How does Ms. Beakley keep getting into these hidden places before Scrooge and the gang?
HIGH Fluid animation in nicely detailed environments.
LOW Misshapen hitboxes mean lots of hits land when they shouldn’t.
WTF 30 second load times from a solid state drive?
HIGH Pulling off a complex series of environment manipulations without a hitch the first time.
LOW Knowing just enough of a puzzle solution's to solve it wrong. For hours.
WTF Some of the photographs have to be taken before the player is taught the photograph song.
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