A Complete Review - Neopets: The Darkest Faerie
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- Опубликовано: 31 май 2018
- A childhood dream is achieved.
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The Misadventures of Tron Bonne (Via Legends Station)
Neopets
Neopets: The Darkest Faerie
www.trinitylast.com/neopets/ddfg/
The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild
More Neopets (via Neocolours)
Bubsy: The Woolies Strike Back 
Игры
Super Mario Sunshine, the GREATEST Cereal...
Diamond Jub my favorite is neopets
@@fisharooniboi6969 That's _Cap'n Neopets._
I'm honestly surprised that the Darkest Faerie is still relevant towards people.
I *LOVE* this game. Even with its clunkiness, it's actually the very first fantasy game I've played. It introduced me to the Neopets website, and then eventually I fell in love with the franchise as a whole. Ever since I played the game, I was fascinated as to of how fantasy worlds are like, including the Medieval Era/Middle Ages.
Even as to of today, I still love this game as a whole. 4/5 for nostalgia, and the reason why that it isn't a 5/5 is because that I was stuck on Act 3 for many years until I decided to play it again for my own.
But I will agree with the 2/5.
As always, you did a wonderful job on reviewing this!
I just don't remember it being so utterly clunky...I just don't for some reason.
It's my favourite game number1 since childhood
I just love nostalgia. Never got into neopets, but Pokemon Mystery Dungeon was my first real videogame on my first real console, followed closely by New super mario bros.
Good old times!
Nauriek
Ikr
Damn I remember playing this when I was 9, i was just enthralled by the setting and it was one of the only games I had that had a semi open world (besides the first Jak and Daxter game). I remember having no memory c ard, so i'd go run through it for a few hours and then turn the system off having to redo my progress. because of this i never really got through act 1, but hell it was still fun. I'd run through it to see how fast i can go through, i guess it being indirectly one of my first steps to liking speedrunning. I've recently run through it again and I agree that the controls are crunchy but you can tell that the devs actually attempted to make a solid game set in the neopets universe and to tell a decent story that kids would be drawn to. my scroe for it would be a 3/5, because it isn't perfect and you can argue that it isn't even good, but damn its fun and it does what it is set out to do.
I have pretty much the same opinion, the game should be terrible with all its bugs and glitches, but the game just has a charm to it that is hard to explain, I have played through the game about 3.5 times, there are AAA titles that I play through and have no desire to revisit, but for some reason this game managed to hook me back in
Yeah, whatever people made this game clearly needed to brush up on their technical skills, but you can see the genuine passion they have in the Neopets world and put into the style and feel of it.
Raw nostalgia flows through my veins and has replaced my blood. I am dead now.
then how did you finish this comment
@@skyboy3218 r/whoooosh
@@skyboy3218 anyone who get the phone send it out
@@skyboy3218 Only conceptually dead
"4 months after the game's launch Altador was finally unfrozen and added to the Neopet's map." I lost my shit when you said this. I never knew this was a thing. About 5 years back in my first year of college I found myself randomly getting a nostalgic itch to play NP again. To my surprise an active player was also in the room with me. We later discovered we had a hell of a lot in common thus we started dating. At the time she was good for me, but as most relationships in college go it didn't last very long or end very well. That being said I started the Altador plot during this time, I didn't touch the game again for a least 2 years after the break up. I was determined to finish the plot line of Altador and for months I refused to look up a guide checking almost daily in the freaking observatory for those god damn constellations. Eventually I gave in and was able to complete the plot line with the help of a guide and getting to the end felt good. Not great, but satisfactory, I felt like I finally completed one of those remnants from my childhood. Now I just gotta do that with the entire Kingdom Hearts before 3 comes out this year and Dot Hack some time in the future too.
I watched this video thinking back to those days I revisited Neopets and thought to myself, "Holy shit, I'm glad I never discovered this game." I'm a bit of a completionist too so I can imagine the shit storm that would have ensued upon realizing the flaws of this game. Though, I can say without a doubt I'm glad I didn't stop watching this video half way through. You are truly an entertaining RUclipsr. You go to extreme lengths to really give these games the credit they deserve, even with terribly designed games or just plain mediocre. Thank you.
Bro, i played this game to death. I still have a clean copy with a Roberta card in it. Its one of my favorite games of all time! I rank it up there with The Last of Us tbh
I can’t believe I never noticed you made a Darkest Faerie video. This is one of my all-time “favorites” (in terms of sentimental value) and I’ve replayed it so many times. I think one of the most frustrating things is how much love and attention was given to the aesthetic, lore, and experience of Neopets but the devs clearly just didn’t have the time to finish things up.
Weird combat aside, the game is full of glitches to the point that’s it’s guaranteed any player will come across a few, whether it’s the music cutting out, the darkness/corruption effect just not clearing up after you save places, unclear progression, and game breaking save points. There are also sooo many parts towards the end that just feel unfinished, like there was supposed to be more there but there wasn’t.
Despite that it’s really charming and genuinely fun. I wish it had become a franchise or something just so that we could get some kind of remaster or remake that polishes it up.
"I will hack your neopets account" -Me whenever someone annoys me
Go ahead, try! (Heh, sucker, I don't even have a Neopets account!)
As a kid I really loved this game sadly never finished it because I got stuck in an infinite staircase.
You have to look at the statues on the staircase and go in the direction where they point a few times.
BLJ?
I never got past act 1 bc I was stupid
I think I was stuck at the part in meridell??
Forever Marie what!! Aren’t you supposed to decend forever till you reach the buttom, that’s how i did it twice
BRO SAME. I gotta go back to it
Otherwise known as Neopets:Offline
This game is such an amazing title and took up most of my time when I was younger. This video was a rush of nostalgia. Thank you.
Can you beat this game without being a furry?
#VGMyths
*YOU CAN'T START IT WITHOUT BEING A FURRY*
I did.
@@Definitely_a_Fox
You can just be a little kid and like the fact you're playing as a furry animal or 2
i was only 13 when i played it. i had no idea what a furry was back then.@@GoopyGato
@@Definitely_a_Fox i was only 13 when i played it. i had no idea what a furry was back then.
I'm a bit late to this, but here is a quick summary of my views on the game. I wasn't that aware of the Neopets before getting the game for my birthday as a kid, and I never got around to finishing it. When I was in high school I finally finished the entire game and thought it was fun. Both protagonists were fine, but I wish we got more to do solely as Robertta before she met Tor. My biggest complaint is that there are too many "points of no return" in that once you start a mission or fight you cant go back. There were also way too many armor and weapon upgrades to purchase, a few glitches throughout the game, and I do wish there had been a fash travel in the game because traveling acorss the entire world took too long. That said, I did like the story and the various locations to explore. As a kid I avoided reading the books all over the place, but replaying the game I did and saw how much backstory and tips they provided. I also liked the various different kinds of enemies to fight and liked the twist near the end of the game. The boss fights for the most part were enjoyable but I am split on the Darkest fairy herself as a villain. Overall, I'm glad I finally played the game and finally finished it.
I'm glad to see that I'm not the only one who loves this game and plays it religiously. I enjoyed your video and actually found it funny and entertaining
This is unironically one of my all time favorite games. I know it's not super good, but I can't help but love it.
to my knowledge i believe im one of the rare people who has a 100 peresent save file for this evil monster of a game
Wow people actually know this game.
God I remember this game. It was great in a nostalgic sort of way
I watched my older siblings play this game when I was a kid. I never beat it myself, but my family has a bunch of inside jokes involving it and I feel like I'll always remember it fondly
To this day this game is one of my favourite games. It taught me english - Made learning it much more fan for someone who speaks another language -, gave me every feeling of adventure I needed, the medieval places were dream-like and I really love the story. It has lots of glitches but God, for me it is a fantastic game.
Hah, this entire video is a mood. I actually obtained this game during my childhood, and terrible production value be damned, I enjoyed the hell out of it. Every now and then I even go back to it to annihilate it with my SUPERIOR TACTICS. As poor of quality as most of the game is, it's a genuinely enjoyable experience nonetheless. Not to mention they really nailed some aspects that still have an effect on my own ideas years later. The dark areas are genuinely creepy, with some very consistent auditory cues and effects that really unsettle you.
When the sound engine works, anyway.
(This is also the game that really made me like element systems. They're fun.)
How do you beat the never ending staircase!!!!
@@lukepatterson8676 Go where the statues point you
Man you're making me want to replay this game due to it being my childhood fave
This game is my childhoods guilty pleasure, I wish it was more polished 😫💕
Game champ has legs now
When did neopets make a ps game and why did i not have it in my life?
Holy shit I remember this game I couldn’t remember the name so I never got to play it again I’m so glad you talked about it
FinalOnyx your profile pic is naruto
Marry me
I had the demo to this. Played it so many times even though i’ve never played neopets prior to the demo
I beat this game in its entirety when I was younger. Super unpolished and terrifying at times since my only exposure to Neopets lore was through McDonald's toys and the occasional Neopets internet game (ice dungeon platformer anyone?), but overall it was a thoroughly enjoyable romp through a land that was surprisingly vast. Seriously though, the swamp and overrun cities of evil nasties were a lot for my small brain to handle at times!
I got hit with a huge slap of nostalgia of this game. COMPLETELY forgot about this game, was a completionist as a kid so maybe I might have blocked it from my memories due to the collections.
Man, I remember being a kid and playing this game with my sister. We were both awful at the game and we never even finished it because the the swamp area was so dark we couldn't even see where to go. Unfortunately we sold the game before realizing we could have just increased the brightness on the tv. It's a shame, since, despite how bad this game looks now, I really want to play it again.
r/KidsAreFuckingStupid
What if you had passed that swamp, played as the girl, fell from the sky, lost your mentor, beat almost every boss, sent to get 3 medicine to cure the guy who would fix the bridge before the final boss. Except the third medicine around a snake boss.
Aaaahhhh the snake boss! How do even damage him? If he’s not coming close and surrounded by shallow water.
Well you shield his headbutt attack to knock him!? The game tells you that clearly but we couldn’t f$k@?g understand it! why??
r/KidsAreFuckingStupid
One of us figured what it meant 4 years later but... the disk kinda... deleted the only path to return back you know “fallout 76” style.
And so the game officially beated us. But it’s still one of my favorite and made lasting effects on me, time to listen those soundtracks again
I remember one glitch that scared me as a kid in this game. Sometimes when I would load into a place, everything would be silent, like eerily silent. No sound at all. And about a minute or two into this silence, suddenly out of nowhere, every sound that was supposed to play from when I loaded in up until now will play all at once in this huge explosion of jumbled up noise, scaring the absolute crap out of me.
When I was a lad I saw the poll for "If there was a Neopets video game, what system would you want it on?" and voted Gamecube so many times. I went back and refreshed endlessly until I got that poll option again, and again and again.
But alas, somehow people like the PS2 so it won and I never played the game (Despite having a PS2... Doesn't mean I want to USE it...)
Considering how popular the PS2 was, it's no surprise it was released there. The PS2 had so many sales it could still come on top even when adding the total sales of the Xbox, Gamecube AND Dreamcast together (150 million sales compared to their 24mil, 22mil and 9.13 sales.)
You know there actually WAS Neopets cereal. It was called Islandberry Crunch and it tasted sort of like fruity pebbles.
I wasn't allowed to have a video game console back when The Darkest Faerie came out so I never got to play it. I might load it through an emulator eventually though. I played the demo for it (and the demo for Petpet Adventures) sooo much back in the day.
I still play Neopets to this day but it's a shadow of its former self. But on a positive note, their most recent management already seems to be a step up from the last one (who fired like 90% of the staff and couldn't get their shit together after the servers got moved--there were about 2 years of permanent lag). They already released new merch and re-started one of the contests that previously had to be shut down due to lack of resources. They upped the pet cap from 4 to 5 (or 5 to 6 in the case of premium members), upped the shop price cap from 99k to 999k, Holidays/events seem to have been coming out on time more frequently, etc. I'm afraid the site will die in 2020 when Flash gets killed off though and this is basically its last hurrah. They have some HTML5 elements here and there around the site but nothing major and there's no way for them to convert everything at this point, especially considering how short-staffed and under-funded it seems to be.
..Standing in the middle of my room before bed, drinking a BioCool2, not knowing anything significant about Neopets
and this is one of the most fascinating entertaining videos I've seen in a long time. You make personal things such stories
U my bedtime story, bb
Nooooo he stole your fangs cause you went back to him when the Darkest Fairy took over. This happened all the time. I played this game repeatedly and I understand this issue exactly.
This is awesome. Neopets the Darkest Faerie was one of my favourite childhood games. I feel like no one ever new about it, it's great to see someone talking about it.
honestly, if Neopets released a videogame every 2 or 3 years or so (or however long is standard for game companies) ,and they used those games to update their story online, I think it would have a bigger following.
I remember having a neopets PSP game. It was a top down action rpg with varied weapons and classes. But I haven't played it in years. As a kid, I loved the game but who knows if it's actually good.
Was it Petpet Adventures?
I just recently found your channel and I can’t believe anyone else knew about The Darkest Faerie!
I got the demo disc through the mail (I still have it) which I played a bunch as a kid! I need to track this game down...
Does the demo have noticeable changes in gameplay regarding the original game? I kinda wanna get it just to find beta stuff, but I don't know if it's worth it. I haven't found an .iso for it online either :(
I literally bought a PS2 for this when I was a kid and didn't regret it one bit
ME:whats your favorite candy bar...
Gamechamp: Neopets...
ME:yea me too!
I'm imagining both of you having tears rolling down your face for some reason.
"A heartfelt two out of five."
Ouch. A whole sentimental speech, and then... *slammed*.
The score is altogether separate from how much I enjoyed my time with the game; it's a judgement of how well I think it articulates its intent and executes it. A fun game it is, but a well-constructed game it is not.
I remember as a child feeling devastated back when I couldn't recall what my password was to get in to the NeoPets website, it still sticks to me up to this day ( Hello darkness my old friend~~ )
Neopets is my favorite cereal
I love your profile pic!
Loved this game as a kid and I'm seriously considering buying a PS2 just so I can play it (and some other spawnhood favorites) again. I remember it came out on my younger sister's birthday and she used to watch me play this game. I thought exploring the levels looking for treasure and the story made up for the glitchiness and other garbage aspects. Good times.
Oh sweet a new Gamechamp series!
A comeplete look at captain toad: treasure tracker switch!
*I WORKED FOR THE OWNER OF NEOPETS* LOL, ABCMOUSE is the new image of neopets, the owners made this new program for kids but they made neopets lol, so i worked for them :)
Anyone else hear bird noises?
Tim Schill
I searched through the comments to see who else was a bit thrown off or even annoyed by them. Honestly, I don’t mind ambient noise and bird chirps are pleasant, but it was actually quite distracting.
I think you're on too much Juppies!
As someone who spent ages looking for someone with a fax machine at his house as a kid, I lost it at the consent form. How can I not try this sorta-game now?
no fall damage and jumping down cogham steppes gives me immense feelings of power. it takes roughly half an hour to climb up that mountain and your reward is jumping down it in like a minute
The music in this game is amazing
TheBHoop97
Too bad you can barely hear it over the birds....
I was never into the Neopets website, I'm not even sure I knew about it til adulthood, but I remember being briefly into the brand with some plushies, a boardgame or 2 and this. It was definately the best thing about Neopets to me.
Kid me didn't understand how to progress once the world opened up, but I would play through Tor's opening chapter sooooooooo much. Despite never getting to far, its still super nostalgic.
I remember playing the hell out of the demo for this game! Then sadly never picked up a copy.
I'm so glad somebody else cares about Neopets.
I've never played this, or knew it existed, but this was really cool and nostalgic seeing Neopets I recognize.
I never heard of this game or care about it at all but I love how thorough and entertaining you were in this review
I would love to see The Darkest Faerie remade for modern consoles or ported at least. It is a great game for all its flaws.
I love all of your series. You da best.
NEOPETS, FUCK YEAH.
It was absolutely my shit as a kid, and I still play it to this day. I will never not be bitter at Viacom for milking it dry, letting it stagnate, then selling it cheap once people stopped playing it because it refused to improve. :| Screw you, Viacom.
This game was _massively_ important to Neopets lore. Aside from being a cross‐media event that’s still referenced to this day-The Darkest Faerie (spoilers!) was the antagonist of the most recent plot that just wrapped last month(!)-it revealed Altador, which then next year launched the Altador Cup, a massive Olympics‐style event that still takes over the site every year to this day! The Darkest Faerie was even going to have a _movie_ before the financing fell through. It wasn’t even likely to be _good,_ and I’m still crushed that it never got made.
People who weren’t kids back in the early 2000s have no idea how massive and influential to the internet Neopets was. I know people who credit Neopets for their entire careers; artists who got their start submitting fanart to official contests on the site for Neopoints, programmers who first looked up how to put HTML together to make their profile prettier, etc.
The site’s still alive today, even if barely (it’s fallen so far it’s now owned by a Chinese MMO factory), and we have a vibrant community on Reddit over at /r/neopets. If you want to reexplore your childhood (or see what you missed), it’s still as fun to play as ever. :) The Altador Cup is just about to start this year! GO TEAM FAERIELAND!
So in a a nutshell, it’s a passion project; definitely not made by someone with game making experience, but the creator’s genuine passion in the world Neopets weaves and their desire to create a charming world and interweaves story still shine through the cracks.
Can you beat this game without getting nostalgic?
neopets the darkest faerie walked so that breath of the wild could run
This is actually my second favorite game of all time, mostly for the nostalgia and heroics. It may not be so focused on the graphics and mechanics, but if you pay attention to the story and creativity, it's beautiful. I still think about this game often, and even had actual DREAMS about it which both brought me back to playing it, and left me curious if, "there's more to it than meets the eye." Maybe the beggar wasn't just talking about the amulet he handed to Tor PFFT
But yeah, I'm still hopeful to see either a sequel to the game, or a complete remaster to fix things up. Would be a childhood dream come true.
If I had to give it a rating, I'd say an easy 4.5/5 for giving me something to enjoy as a kid, despite all the other games that had better graphics and such. Was just unique in its own way.
And I'll admit, I was horrified in some parts of the game. Especially when monsters would attack you through the ground and screech loud enough to make me run for my parents to help me progress through the game HAHAA
I cant remember where this game came from , maybe one Christmas morning; but it always held a special place in my heart. I recently got a emulator running on my pc and have been playing it a little bit at time, its just as magical as when i was a kid , and yet i never really fully explored it back then because the tombs scared the shit outa me when i was a kid.
The part where you mention unfinished business in childhood made me realize why I keep playing Yugioh. I get my ass kicked when I was a kid at tournaments during the OG and Gx era. Now I spend way more money on it to win locals.
Neopets more like NeoGeoPets
I still check Neopets almost daily and wow I need this game! I've always wanted it but seeing this made me want it even more
Wow, I haven't heard of this game in years. This was my favorite game when I was younger, and I had a nasty habit of restarting games so I never did even come close to finishing it.
Why am I feeling nostalgic for a game I've never played on a console I never owned??? The art style is just making me emotional???
Can't wait to complete this OH BUOY
My unfinished child hood business is froger the great quest ps2 Tarzan for the ps2 and PK out of the shadows for the GC
And you told me you didn't have a review series.
I was suddenly overcome with an incredible urge to prove myself a liar.
holy shit theres a neopets game?
Multiple games actually!
There was also Petpet Adventures: Wand of Wishing for PSP, Puzzle Adventure for nintendo DS & PC, Quizara for the Leapfrog Didji (a kids handheld learning thing), the first mobile version of the site (for flip phones), Ghoul Catchers for android & ios (a simple match-3 clone, currently still out and trucking), Treasure Keepers the Facebook game, and a series of handhelds that had physical neopets you put into slots to play minigames. There was also a board game, puzzles, and 2 kinds of interactives (plastic and plush)
Neopets was an entire empire in its heyday. There was so much merchandise in pretty much any form you could imagine. It's kind of sad to see how far it's fallen (but they also just released new merch for the first time in a long time--enamel pins!). It's uncertain if it'll die or not when Flash gets killed in a few years.
Love your content man
I cant wait for The Legend of Neopets Neopets of the Neopets they just announced it for switch
OK BUT THIS GAME WAS MY FREAKING CHILDHOOD. I rarely played Neopets, but The Darkest Faerie was a bop. It’s so underrated
I somehow managed to catch this game right when it came out, despite never having heard of neopets beyond perhaps the faint schoolground whisper. I was literally at Walmart with my mom who said "alright, pick out any one game you want." and that just so happened to catch my eye. I don't know why, perhaps the Gods of Gaming decided it was to be, but it was a wonderful decision. I had so much fun with that game, despite the many troubles, too, and will always remember it as a piece of my childhood.
Hello Game Champ. First of all I would like to congratulate you and thank you for the incredible content you do and to thank you I would suggest you subtitle your videos to Spanish. If you are worried about the translation do not worry I really live in Chile and I understand all your videos (even if you have doubts I am willing to realize a test) to finish I wish you a happy future in your career as youtuber and as a person YOU ARE GREAT :)
Fuck yes I've been waiting for someone to do a video on this game to validate my childhood
The darkest faerie was one of my favorite games when I was little, I got it from one of my aunts who collected beanie babys and old/obscure games and I loved the game. My sister and I replayed it several times and it was the one to introduce me to neopets. A good time was had by all by playing the game. It was fun.
I finally found this game. It’s been in my head forever and I could never figure out what it was called until I randomly thought about Neopets and google decided to be useful for once.
Now I'll be waiting for a review of Quizzara's Curse.
Good luck finding a Didj in this day and age dude.
eBay has one for 25 bucks.
This game was one of the games i couldn't remember for so long until now thank you friend
Oh my god, this nostalgia is hitting me hard
Also the skull quest can only be finished in Act 1 as well; You get the skull from the tomb near Illusen’s glade, then go back to Merridell in Act 1, then she gives you the reward, and the quest is finished. Any quest you receive in Merridell should be completed in Act 1, because otherwise Merridell is under the Darkest Faerie’s control, and the characters are cursed. Even if you talked to the lady, the quest would not be completed because you can’t finish it in Act 3, you have to do it in Act 1.
I played this when I had a PS2 and gave up as I was constantly getting lost. Just realized it was really my first open world RPG. Wouldn't mind trying it again.
As buggy and poorly assembled this game appears to be on the onset, it's genuinely one of my favorite PS2 titles from my childhood. I'm going on 21 now and at least once a year I find myself dumping my PS2's BIOS again to play Jak X Combat Racing and Neopets: The Darkest Faerie once again. Love this game!
I know I’m basically screaming into the void, but now I’m imagining someone saying something about Neopets on one of Gamechamp3000’s streams and then him re-creating the “chocolate” SpongeBob meme.
I already love your new avatar pose.
7:55 - Fun fact: if you hate yourself enough to grind money grass for over an hour, you can get Roberta's best wand in Chapter 2 before ever leaving Fairyland.
I do that every time I replay the game! It's a must!!!
We're you by chance ever able to access the epilogue page?
@@lu9931 Sadly, no. I've never actually played the Neopets WEBSITE game before. That honor belongs to my brothers.
As a kid I thought that I was just terrible at fighting but after this I realized "Yeah it was supposed to be like that"
The last chunk of Final Fantasy XV reminded me so much of this game.
The drackonack Quest can only be finished in Act 1, and not in act 3 because Merridell is under the Darkest Faerie’s control. Your supposed to keep hunting and giving him fangs in Act 1 until he tells you to stop, and then the quest will finish and be off the quest log. He gets mad because the quest cannot be completed anymore, and Merridell isn’t freed from the Darkest Faerie.
The biggest bug I really ran into with this game was the assistant quest. Once you pick it up, the guy you need to talk to to finish it never shows up where he needs to, leaving it there forever. And it's always happened to me, so it's more likelier to be the disk than my saves.
Regardless, I love this game and have finished it probably more than anything else I own, cause it's so short and pretty easy to run through
When I was a kid and this game came out I wanted it so badly but never got it, all these years later after watching this video for nostalgic I kind of want to play it now
We gonna talk about the amazing soundtrack though?
I thought I was the only person who had seen this as a child and wanted to play / finish it and never got to
Nostalgia is always stronger than clunkiness. I was born in 2002, and didn't get into video games until i was almost 10, and i started out with my older brothers playstation 2. I never played this game, but i've always had a wonder for these "legends among gaming" I.e. Super mario 64, ocarina of time, and those other games. And well, when it came around to playing them in the past couple years now that i have my own money and can buy the original consoles, Ive found that alot of the glory and shine these games are given aren't as easy for me to see. Super Mario 64, with its fun, is also fairly clunky with a wretched camera that made me feel like i was wrestling the game just to see where I was going, and to do moves correctly. Yet, despite the gaming flaws, its praised as a sort of "God" of gaming. And honestly, ive felt it recently with Kingdom hearts. I played the original Kingdom Hearts on the ps2 and well, i never beat it, but I always looked back on it as a good game just a hard game. Going back to such an old game now, through the remake for the ps4, I realized how clunky it actually was. Yet it was still enjoyable because of the nostalgia.
Tl;dr, Nostalgia blind is a real thing, and can make even the clunkiest of games seem like a modern master piece.
Yes, finally!!!!
I was but a small child who didn't even have internet or previous knowledge of this universe when my parent's bought me this game so I would stop playing Medal of Honor - Frontline.
Similar to my experience with Kingdom Hearts 1, I loved every moment of the story and any character death, no matter how little they were on screen beforehand, completely devastated me for no reason. I was fucking invested in this game entirely. My most vivid memory was farming light motes from a building in the final area of the game. Why? I couldn't tell you.
What was most likely clunky controls, I chocked up to my inability to be good, and I would slam my head against the wall until I prevailed over every encounter. This was basically my childhood dark souls.
The only disappointment I had with this game whatsoever was how the final fight ended. I think I hit a switch or something and a cutscene played that I do not remember at all and I guess I won. That was more than just a little disappointing to me, I was wanting yet another battle where I would die 10 times, give up, but finally push through and prevail over true evil after a short moment of respite.
So yeah, that's my experience with this game in it's entirety through dumbass 10-12 year old eyes. Perfect 10/10. And NO, this game doesn't make you a furry, don't believe their lies. Just play it, don't worry about it.