PixlBit

It looks bright and colorful too. Always a good sign. 

I dunno, if you think about Kirby a bit too hard it gets pretty dark.  Kidding. I definitely appreciate that you game for fun first and foremost. 

Er, you mean Naughty Dog. lol 

But you should trust Insomniac. Spider-Man is amazing and a MUCH lighter experience in terms of narrative ... in every sense of the word lighter. 

Golf with your friends sounds like a lot of fun. 

My older brother loves Ace Combat and plane stuff in general as well. 

I still enjoyed the PS4 remake, but probably because I have no nostalgia for or memory of the original game. 

I'd honestly recommend watching a playthrough or playing it for yourself and avoiding this altogether. 

I realize by posting this I'm adding to it. Just needed to vent. 

Yes. There is also controversy about something that happens very early on in the game and a switcheroo that happens later in the game, which I would have enjoyed as legitimately divisive parts of the narrative if people didn't get so ... weird about them. 

It all has that overreactive "you ruined my childhood" stench about it. Like, I honestly thought Angry Joe's review of the game was totally fair (and he was very sour on the experience) but there's something about the screeching banshee delivery and "you're an idiot if you like this" attitude that turns me off. Not that people who like it haven't been guilty of "you're a child if you don't like this," etc. 

You're right, online gaming culture is a shitshow.  

I don't remember the Black Widow controversy. 

Never heard of this game, but there was a ring out-based 3D fighter on N64 I rented quite a bit ... and worked into a Nerds Without Pants podcast at one point, but now I can't remember the name of it. lol 

In any case, the good thing about mediocre fighters is that while mediocre, if the gameplay isn't totally broken you've still got yourself a fighter. It's like cooking mashed potatoes. Sometimes you've really hit on something, most of the time they're fine, but very rarely do you manage to mess them up so bad you can't eat them.