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Nontendo Games

Started by Claude the Racecar Driving Rockstar Super Sleuth, September 24, 2020, 01:38:00 PM

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Claude the Racecar Driving Rockstar Super Sleuth

We all know that Nintendo make the best games (except for the vast number that they don't), but I haven't owned one of their consoles since the N64 and fucked if I'm going to splash out for one now. What else is there that has a spark of that signature Nintendo feel?

I had a good time playing Yooka Laylee last year and, up until it vastly overstayed its welcome, I remember Okami as an excellent Zelda clone.

I played a bit of Fall Guys recently and thought that was very Nintendo-like. A bit of a Mario Party feel, mixed with Splatoon aesthetics. I don't have a PS+ account though, so bollocks to it.

What else?

Sin Agog

A Hat in Time.  Think it was being crowdfunded at the same time as Yooka Laylee, except it didn't end up being a flaky disappointment.  Even read someone on here say they prefer it to Odyssey.


Beagle 2

It's obviously aesthetically very different but I always felt that Rocket League nailed that arcade chaotic fun feel in a way that felt very Nintendo, like if Nintendo set out to make a football game it would end up coming out something like that. In another lifetime a Mario Rocket League sounds like a grand old time.



Kelvin

Crash? Spyro? Shovel Knight captures the old NES / SNES feel really well. Steamworld Dig 2 is a charming Metroidvania without all the tedium that usually blights that genre. 

Loads of games explicitly rip off Nintendo titles, too. I don't bother with them, as it seems a bit uninspired, but you have games like Blossom Tales, which is just a direct copy of Link to the Past:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-W_JXUJ20og

or Oceanhorn, which seems heavily influence by the design of Windwaker:     

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KIj0t7lX1Yc

Obviously a lot of indie games have tried to capture Nintendo's style, but I generally find that the more closely they try to emulate it, the more obvious their shortfalls.

Jerzy Bondov

A Short Hike is my nomination. Very lovely.

Claude the Racecar Driving Rockstar Super Sleuth

Are the Crash Bandicoot games much cop? They always looked a bit crap to me, especially compared to Mario 64.

Quote from: Beagle 2 on September 24, 2020, 02:07:17 PM
It's obviously aesthetically very different but I always felt that Rocket League nailed that arcade chaotic fun feel in a way that felt very Nintendo, like if Nintendo set out to make a football game it would end up coming out something like that. In another lifetime a Mario Rocket League sounds like a grand old time.
Good call. We've actually already got it on the Playstation, but I've never bothered to give it a try. I might have a go this weekend (assuming it doesn't need PS+.

Quote from: Sin Agog on September 24, 2020, 01:42:45 PM
A Hat in Time.  Think it was being crowdfunded at the same time as Yooka Laylee, except it didn't end up being a flaky disappointment.
I really liked Yooka Laylee (aside from the complete and utter bastard of a final boss) and don't understand its apparently poor reputation, but if this is even better, sign me up.

One of my alltime favourite Nontendo games was Eyetoy Play on the PS2. Ever so slightly gobsmacking that Nintendo didn't come up with the idea themselves. If anything, the Wii seems like an attempt to play catchup.

Beagle 2

Yooka Laylee was sublime right up until all that casino shite and I never went back. Is there more after that? I think I might even be able to get to another stage if I could work out which way I was supposed to be going in the overworld.

Claude the Racecar Driving Rockstar Super Sleuth

I think it was the penultimate level. I do remember it seeming a bit sub-par initially, but it got a lot better as I explored. Pretty blatant rip off of the Casino Zone in Sonic 2, though.

samadriel

Cave Story should appeal to the Super Metroid fan in you.

madhair60

Crash Bandicoot is great, and far superior in playability to Mario 64. Vestigial console war shit tends to obscure this fact

colacentral

Shit take as always; it's far from being a "fact". One is a platformer in a completely open, free to roam space, with controls and game mechanics that for the most part still work today, and invented a whole new genre. The other is a 2d platformer punctuated with faux 3d corridor running sections with much stiffer movement and limited controls. They're so different they're not even comparable anyway.

SavageHedgehog

I like both, but I think the first three Crash games get better as they go along, although if you were to play just one of them I think Crash 2 would get the nod as it refines and builds on the first one effectively and probably provides more straight forward satisfaction than the third one. But if you have a modern system I think the N-Sane Trilogy is pretty reasonable these days.

Mantle Retractor

Quote from: Jerzy Bondov on September 24, 2020, 02:29:19 PM
A Short Hike is my nomination. Very lovely.

This game is brilliant, a little gem it is. Good to see it get a mention.

I would nominate Hollow Knight and Shovel Knight. Both very much at home on a Nintendo.

rack and peanut

Another vote for A Hat in Time.

Chedney Honks

Quote from: madhair60 on September 25, 2020, 08:32:52 AM
Crash Bandicoot is great, and far superior in playability to Mario 64. Vestigial console war shit tends to obscure this fact

How is this cunt not banned yet x

madhair60

Quote from: colacentral on September 25, 2020, 11:35:52 AM
Shit take as always; it's far from being a "fact". One is a platformer in a completely open, free to roam space, with controls and game mechanics that for the most part still work today, and invented a whole new genre. The other is a 2d platformer punctuated with faux 3d corridor running sections with much stiffer movement and limited controls. They're so different they're not even comparable anyway.

they're both platformers, of course they're comparable. ridiculous statement

bgmnts

They're both video games.

Claude the Racecar Driving Rockstar Super Sleuth

A Lada and a Ferrari are both cars...

madhair60

They're both 3D mascot character platform games, it's delusional to pretend there's any problem with comparing them.

Kelvin

He's only saying it to get a reaction

Ah

But who

Zetetic

Crash Bandicoot isn't a real person.

imitationleather

I'd love to watch Crash Bandicoot try to fix my loo.