

If you’re going to give us a speed up option that still forces you to press A or R to get through the dialogue boxes anyways, when Story of Seasons scrolled the text FOR you, at the very least make it actually fast. HA, OH I’m sorry, you can’t skip them, you can only hold R to “ speed up, “ by a microsecond through them. So the first thing I noticed upon starting the game was you could skip cutscenes. So this remake looks even worse nowadays because it was the start of a trend of extremely lazy remakes, that do nothing to improve the game enough as they should.

It doesn’t make the carrot mini-game optional when it was the whole reason I ragequit. Speaking of that, remember those fat red Koopas you knock over? Gone, replaced with big generic-looking green Koopas that aren’t fat, just tall, so now it feels a lot less justified that they’re there able to block the way and they lose all of the charm and uniqueness of the original setpiece.Īnd the remake of Bowser’s Inside Story is JUST AS LAZY IF NOT MORE SO. Replaced with the most generic Koopa sprites imaginable. Remember the funny unique outfits the Koopas in Bowser’s airship wore to make them distinct and stand out? They’re gone. With that in mind, there is absolutely no excuse for actively making things worse. A remake is supposed to start with the original and just add improvements. What was it about the new advanced 3DS technology that made it impossible for the game to remember that you were standing under a save diary when you saved? Also, you don’t see a quill pen writing the name of the location you’re in like in an actual book when you save anymore, which loses the charm of the original as now it’s just a stamp, even if it does save faster.Īnd you may think, oh, that’s just a nitpick, But like with A Link Between Worlds, nitpicks add up, and believe me, I have a lot of them. Although later on in Hoohoo Mountain I discovered that it doesn’t actually respawn you from the save points when you save and quit, it respawns you all the way at the start of the screen again, forcing you to backtrack back to where you last were. So at first, when I first got this game and I was first playing it, I assumed it would be MUCH better than the original, not only because of the graphics being a little nicer, but also because it let you save wherever you want. I’m not the kind of blind Mario fanboy that would think this remake is good enough. I’ve counted 114 downgrades from the original game. Here’s what I thought when I reached Chucklehuck Woods I just want to play the original all over again. I could barely put it down when I was first playing it, but because they CHANGED the controls, and the timing of the attack evasions, and made things visually distracting for an Action RPG, the overall game is harder and took a bit for me to get accustomed to.
