Funk, E wrote:Most of Shiny's stuff from that era was gold, like Wild 9 for the PSX, Sacrifice for the PC, and heck, even Messiah is underappreciated.
I freaking love Wild 9, and feel it never gets the attention it deserved.
I also enjoyed Wild 9. The torture mechanic may have been a bit gimmicky, but it was fun and different. I liked the cartooniness, craziness and kind of surreal quality Shiny games had. Something I felt was also captured well in Conker's Bad Fur Day and some of Planet Moon Studios games(like Armed and Dangerous and Giants:Citizen Kabuto)
MDK 2 is most certainly worth the frustration. To the topic creator, if you're only on the first level, you haven't seen anything yet. The mix of gameplay is great. Max has this rambo style of gameplay and the doctor is puzzle loving and platforming(also has some of the game's most hilarious moments in his stages). There are some clever ideas at play in the game, like how Max has multiple arms which can each carry a firearm.
RyaNtheSlayA wrote:
Seriously. Screw you Shao Kahn I'm gonna play Animal Crossing.
Funk, E wrote:Most of Shiny's stuff from that era was gold, like Wild 9 for the PSX, Sacrifice for the PC, and heck, even Messiah is underappreciated.
I freaking love Wild 9, and feel it never gets the attention it deserved.
I also enjoyed Wild 9. The torture mechanic may have been a bit gimmicky, but it was fun and different. I liked the cartooniness, craziness and kind of surreal quality Shiny games had. Something I felt was also captured well in Conker's Bad Fur Day and some of Planet Moon Studios games(like Armed and Dangerous and Giants:Citizen Kabuto)
Gamerforlife wrote:
MDK 2 is most certainly worth the frustration. To the topic creator, if you're only on the first level, you haven't seen anything yet. The mix of gameplay is great. Max has this rambo style of gameplay and the doctor is puzzle loving and platforming(also has some of the game's most hilarious moments in his stages). There are some clever ideas at play in the game, like how Max has multiple arms which can each carry a firearm.
MDK 2 is amazing. I played on PC and I don't remember having too much trouble completing it, there are some parts that aren't too easy of course.
The doctor is amazing as well - radioactive toaster is certainly an original weapon.
This is one I never finished. I wonder if I still have the save on a VMU around here somewhere. I don't remember getting too frustrated with it, but I do remember circle strafing ALL THE TIME. It was of course stylish as all hell, as was everything from Shiny back then.
I checked out Shiny's more recent releases. A couple Matrix games and The Golden Compass. That's too bad.
We are prepared to live in the plain and die in the plain!
Wild 9 always felt..I dunno, unfinished to me. It felt like it petered out near the end, kind of ran out of ideas, and didn't really even introduce all the characters that it portrayed in the manual. I mean, we never really even meet the whole Wild 9, do we?