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Worgen

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Whatever, just wash your hands.
Yeah, the only game I really liked in the entire series is the 1st one. Then they just kept giving Kratos worse and worse excuses for being an asshole whereas in the 1st game it made a certain kind of sense.
The first game was pretty great and did a really good job with his character, making him a monster, but at least he felt kinda bad about some of the stuff he did. It was really setup like a greek tragedy. After that it just got cartoony and really should have had one of the millions he had wronged take him out.
 
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Another thing I respect Ninja Gaiden 3: Razor's Edge for, is the more honest arcadey nature of the game. The previous two games were already arcadey in nature, but the exploration on top of that in their vanilla releases. Ninja Gaiden Sigma and Sigma 2/Black II pretty much remove most and all of the puzzle solving respectively. It's honestly works to both games benefit. Especially in Black II.

I find it much harder to go back and play DMC4 Dante. He's still fun, but really limited compared to DMC3 incarnation (especially with the Switch port allowing style switching on the fly) and especially to DMC5. I only like 3 out of his 7 weapons (Dark Slayer Style gives him limited uses of Yamato that can be fun, so it counts). Though Gilgamesh is just a worse version of Beowulf, even though I enjoy using it.

DmC_Dante does have more limited weapon kit compared to DMC4 Dante, but at least DmC_Dante's weapons are all fun to use, and switch between combo starters and enders with pause combos to make up for his more limited kit. DmC_Dante still has more robust and flexible tool kit, than most Western style Single Player Stylish Action Games or God of War clones. The Definitive Edition of DmC (2013) fixes most of the gameplay issues I had with the original release, thus making him more fun to play and experiment with.

 
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Not every platform fighter needs to play like Super Smash Bros Melee, and I'm tired of seemingly everyone developing one lately deliberately trying to just be Melee with different characters.

-Melee fans already have Melee, and even 20XX isn't going to get them to find a new game; you aren't that guy.
-People who don't care for Melee aren't going to be attracted to a game that's Melee but with furries/Batman/whatever else.
-People who don't know about Melee aren't going to care that it plays exactly like Melee.

So why would you try to remake Melee wholesale instead of developing your own game with its own mechanical identity? Somehow, Nintendo in Melee's own sequels are better at this than the imitators!
 
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