Don't Trust Creepy Uncle Nintendo Kids! BaD#16

On 02/23/2015 at 01:54 PM by asrealasitgets

Well, y'all read my complaints about it last week. That new Pokemon Shuffle game that came out last week was a turn for the worst for Nintendo, and you could here a collective scream shouting, "We didn't ask for this!", and those screams were right.

See, the abominable thing about this game is that it's perfectly fine as a match-three tetris like game, except after the tutorials, the game is constantly harassing you to buy more crystal meth to keep playing like a drug dealer who you've taken one too many samples from. Now, I don't believe I have an addiction problem when it comes to gaming, and I've yet to pull out a credit card to purchase crack crystals from the eShop, but I wonder about other people that might get snagged into this. You pretty much get like 5 matches per game session and then you have to wait 30 mins to refill, which I guess you could just play every 30 mins, which is what I've been doing just to see all the features of the game, but it's just not even worth it. The game is pretty generic all around and doesn't even offer 3D visuals or interesting artwork, unless you think swapping pokemon heads is umm, adorable?

After reading up on the game I noticed Nintendo is putting out a free to play 3rd person shooter called Iron Fall or something and it's basically a free demo with the full campaign needed to be paid for like DLC. Okay, Nintendo is getting real and late the DLC and episodic content thing, but I just hate seeing it on my beloved eShop. Ewww!

METROID PRIME DEFEATED!
In other news, I finished METROID PRIME on WiiU, and boy is that game just perfect and satisfying in every way. Some of the artifact hunting was a bit frustrating, but I eventually found all the 12 keys to unlock the final boss or whatever. I feel like if Metroid Prime was released today, I'd have to pay to unlock weapons and upgrades. Oh Dear! I might put up a more thorough impression of METROID PRIME later this week.

mothman

02/23/2015 at 01:58 PM

Yep, that game doesn't sound like anything I'd play. How long until some hapless parent finds out their kid charged $200 to their credit card for crack crystals. Evil I tells ya.

asrealasitgets

02/24/2015 at 01:08 AM

I don't care that these games exist or that people enjoy them, I just don't want to see them on the 3DS.

Super Step Contributing Writer

02/23/2015 at 02:25 PM

I never pay for games like that. I can wait.

Cary Woodham

02/23/2015 at 06:48 PM

I don't think NIntendo has gone off the deep end. They're just trying a strategy that has worked well for other companies. It's not like they do this all the time. And if you've played any of those free-to-play tablet games, you know they're way worse about that sort of thing. At least you don't see pop up ads in Pokemon Shuffle. I don't like being nickeled and dimed like that either, but I just won't pay for the extra stuff. Luckily we'll be getting a physical cartridge version of a similar game in May called Puzzle and Dragon Z, and it'll have a special Mario themed game on the same cartridge, too!

Metroid Prime is pretty darn awesome.

SanAndreas

02/23/2015 at 07:18 PM

Bleh. I hate the F2P (aka Pay To Win) model. It's completely destroyed whatever little interest I had in Android and iOS as gaming platforms. The game is artificially gimped in order to prod you into paying for getting around the gimped parts, essentially asking you to pay NOT to play the game. I can not play the game just fine by not downloading it to begin with.

Keegs79

02/23/2015 at 10:25 PM

I enjoy and have all the Metroid Prime games but haven't beaten any of them.

Jamie Alston Staff Writer

02/24/2015 at 07:26 AM

Congrats on finishing Metroid Prime. I gotta say though...getting the 12 temple keys isn't nearly as frustrating as the fectch quest you'll be sent on towards the end of Prime 2.

C.S.3590SquadLeader

02/24/2015 at 11:05 AM

Congrats on finishing Metroid Prime!

jgusw

02/25/2015 at 12:34 PM

Metroid Prime is the only one I finished. I need to play the other games.

KnightDriver

02/26/2015 at 01:44 PM

I've started Metroid Prime several times now and still haven't finished it. Must do that!

And the Pokemon Shuffle game wasn't as annoying as I thought it would be, but it's pretty simple and probably won't engage me for very long.

PixlBit