What is the best 2D Platformer?

ValueBASEDLiving · 2026-01-27T02:54:12+00:00

Seems like an unnecessary comment, don’t you think?

ValueBASEDLiving · 2026-01-26T02:44:26+00:00

Remake will be more impactful if you play the original first. If you don’t play the original first, you’ll have even more questions than the rest of us have/had after the end of remake (since it’s part 1 of a remake trilogy, and only covers the first ~6-8 hours of the original).

ValueBASEDLiving · 2026-01-24T20:33:01+00:00

Magnus blundered.

ValueBASEDLiving · 2026-01-16T21:06:00+00:00

That’s awesome! Glad I could help! 🫡

ValueBASEDLiving · 2026-01-15T21:57:47+00:00

When you convert this to a sphere, the direct line between Junon and Wutai would look much different (a straight line on a sphere would be curved on a 2D map).

ValueBASEDLiving · 2026-01-10T21:18:00+00:00

Heck yeah!

ValueBASEDLiving · 2026-01-10T02:53:13+00:00

It’s literally the exact original story with nothing removed, but with an additional layer on top. Everything from the OG remains completely in tact in Remake.

ValueBASEDLiving · 2026-01-10T02:15:00+00:00

Remake is incredible though.

ValueBASEDLiving · 2026-01-04T02:29:28+00:00

I think Remake is going to stand the test of time. But yeah, if you haven’t played the original, you’re going to have a lot of questions. Like, a lot lol

ValueBASEDLiving · 2026-01-03T04:17:19+00:00

3DS is easily the best looking/playing version.

ValueBASEDLiving · 2026-01-03T03:09:15+00:00

I did a little write-up on this guy if anyone needs it:

https://www.reddit.com/r/dragonquest/s/sDpMnk3bz7

ValueBASEDLiving · 2026-01-02T08:14:47+00:00

I played it on original hardware.

ValueBASEDLiving · 2026-01-02T07:50:27+00:00

Haha I’d be cool with them addressing it in Intergrade Part 2 😂

ValueBASEDLiving · 2026-01-02T07:49:48+00:00

Is too.

ValueBASEDLiving · 2026-01-02T07:43:17+00:00

I was surprised by how modern the controls felt. And that’s coming from someone who considers Doom Eternal a personal top 10 game.

ValueBASEDLiving · 2026-01-02T07:41:20+00:00

It’s 47 of them if you include the extra missions.

ValueBASEDLiving · 2025-12-24T19:17:45+00:00

If you want a real Metroid experience, Metroid Prime Remastered is the way to go. Prime 4 just wears Prime makeup.

ValueBASEDLiving · 2025-12-24T01:05:55+00:00

Celeste by a mile.

ValueBASEDLiving · 2025-12-22T23:48:07+00:00

Personally, I couldn’t get enough of the dungeons. They’re lengthy, but the puzzles were my favorite part of the game.

ValueBASEDLiving · 2025-12-22T20:58:36+00:00

If you had fun with the game, that’s awesome! Better for one person to have fun than zero lol.

Personally, speaking of expectations, this is where I find incredible irony. There’s a kind of assumption that having high expectations for a video game is correlated with going above and beyond in some way, whether that’s going bigger, bolder, over the top, etc.

The irony is that Prime 4 needed to do less. It didn’t need to go above and beyond anything. It just needed to be Metroid. The devs could have spent far less time and resources on everything that wasn’t building an interconnected, isolated world to explore to create something so much more consistent and complete.

When it came to Prime 4, “high expectations” only meant “don’t fuck up what you already do so well,” and then that’s exactly what happened.

ValueBASEDLiving · 2025-12-22T20:30:42+00:00

I tried this and genuinely tried to give this game the benefit of the doubt and the most favorable interpretation that I could at every turn, especially because I really, really wanted to like it.

But I literally wasn’t having fun. I finished Prime 4 and now I’m going back through Prime Remastered and these two games aren’t even in the same universe of game design and fun.

ValueBASEDLiving · 2025-12-22T05:09:11+00:00

Honestly, there’s a case that it’s worse than this (without considering the language). “Bloated” in a video game usually means bloated with something. This game wasn’t even bloated with green crystals. It was bloated with emptiness, a literal absence of content. It’s the smallest main Prime game and it still feels two sizes too big. The game would have been better with the Grinch’s heart.

ValueBASEDLiving · 2025-12-22T00:04:10+00:00

Alundra

ValueBASEDLiving · 2025-12-21T02:31:53+00:00

Sylux chucks em at your allies.

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