ITT: Games that exemplify forced soul, artificial difficulty, dishonest art styles, fake fun, and insist upon themselves.

Man, remember when they'd make adorably shitty games like picrel? I bet this sold like 1000 copies total, but producing for the GBA was so cheap you basically saw every type of game imaginable

I really don’t appreciate gen 6 being allowed on /vr/.

You didn't beat the game.

Do you have a problem with Smash Bros. outside its community?

Like do you refute the claim it is a "good game"?

Would it have saved the Saturn?

A 30 second demo of Sonic running around a hill was totally worth a couple of programmers literally almost dying, I must say.

IX, an overrated and overhyped game that nostalgia shills praise the heck out of simply because it has castles and airships in it, completely ignoring the mediocre plot and writing, gaping holes and contrivances, and especially the poorly done love story of Zidane and Garnet.

Most of it’s issues are explained in detail here in this commentary of the game script: https://www.fanfiction.net/s/14012757/1/Everything-Wrong-with-Final-Fantasy-IX

Part 1.
I just beat FFX (on a PS2 + CRT), this is a pretty good game, not sure why it doesn't get more attention.
The music is amazing and they finally made a game where every party member is important to the story. This feels like the game FF8 should've been, there's just so many allusions between the two games (gonna have spoiler text for now but later on I wbf typing them):
>The water and meteorological naming conventions
>Succession of Witches, Succession of Sin
>Big focus on the romance
>FF8's Time Travel, Sin housing a dream Zanarkand circa 1000 years ago
>Sphere Grid is junctioning but good
>GF gives memory loss, Final Aeon gives death
>Squall and Co succeed Laguna and Co, like how Tidus and Co succeed Jecht and Co.

I do have some criticisms of the gameplay and story. Wakka becomes pretty useless lategame since most enemies become immune to his skills. The game is extremely linear as you can't even explore the map until the final dungeon – you don't even get to fly the ship yourself. Rikku does not join your party with acceptable stats lmao. Planning your moves with knowledge of whose turn it will be is cool, but I wish it still had a real-element or just stopped being turn-based like 7R.

Was he a Mary Sue?