I’m talking about games that you still like but you had no idea were criticized so much.

The perfect example for me is Sonic Unleashed.

I admit that the game has its bad things, but I would have never imagined that it was so hated at the time… Although, that could be extended to the entire Sonic franchise, since for many years I was not aware at all of that “Sonic was never good”, “Sonic had a rough transition to 3D” nonsense.

  • @frank@sopuli.xyzEnglish
    6•4 days ago

    I loved FFTA and have replayed it multiple times. I’ve played FFTA2 some as well, which was definitely not as good.

    I thought A was much better than the original. I didn’t even know it was “not good”

    • @De_Narm@lemmy.worldEnglish
      6•4 days ago

      Usually, whenever people talk about A, you get a few of the following arguments:

      • The story is bad/too childish
      • Laws/Judges are overall a terrible mechanic
      • Learning skills from equipment is bad
      • SRPGs need permadeath
      • Send missions are bad and just there to promote the game with having 300 missions

      Of course, I disagree with all of these. Actually, these are some of my favorite things about this game.

      • @frank@sopuli.xyzEnglish
        3•3 days ago

        Yeah I don’t see those are negative honestly. The send missions inflated the numbers and I don’t love that you can get locked out of stuff easily but it’s totally fine

        • I Cast FistEnglish
          2•3 days ago

          I personally dislike the skills from equipment because, compared to FFT, it creates an artificial, story-gated wall on character progression (you can’t get the most powerful magic because you can’t get the equipment, because it only unlocks later during the story)

          As for the judges, I don’t think they add enough to game to make combat more interesting