[General Discussion] Games that are supposed to be really bad but you like

The recently ported Astonishia Story on the PSP comes to mind. I got pretty addicted to it, actually. The characters are nothing if not entertaining at times, the special moves are cool, the sprites and environments are pretty well-detailed, and the story's not bad, albeit with some holes in the plot.

Overall though, I wouldn't have said for anyone to steer completely clear of the game, but that's what reviewers said to do.

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I'd agree with you on MMX5, GoldfishX, because it was pretty cool. But X6 was horrendously difficult, and X7 was just...for pity's sake, a bad first-step in taking a 2D series into 3D. But Megaman X8 was good, since it combined the best elements of both 3D design and the 2D movement Megaman was built on.

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In spite of most people not liking the game (and thus avoiding the second game like the plague, unfortunately), I really enjoyed the first Dark Cloud. For a lunch PS2 title, it was surprisingly well-polished. There was plenty of room for error, what with the free-form creation of cities, but the execution was triple-A. Of course, now I understand that Level-5, the creators, are fantastically and miraculously skilled at what they do.

I adored the Georama system, even if it was simplistic to use and slightly limited in what you could do. I liked the dungeons even if they were a bit long. Item creation was cool, and the multiple characters you could recruit were also pretty cool, since each of them had unique abilities you had to exploit in order to complete certain levels.

I'll throw in a quick nomination for Legaia: Duel Saga. It was ridiculously easy for the most part, and some of the voices made my eye twitch at how bad they came off, but for the most part everything was reasonable. I liked the revamped battle system, and the combos were also really, really cool to watch. All of the attacks flowed together really well, even the ones that looked like they might make you fall over mid-strike.

Other than that, the story was entertaining if not a little cliche`, and the minigames were fun. The casino rocked.

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Originally Posted by Shuriken

Seven Samurai 20XX. I absolutely adore the game,but the highest this game has been reviewed was 7/10. Even on the mighty Intarwebs it's next to impossible to find somebody who actually played it,let alone liked. Most of the time you get the typical "nvar plyed it but i heard it suxors lol." Everybody and their mom bashed the repetitive combat and blamed the game for being "too easy". I wonder if I was the only one who ever tried playing on a difficulty level other than Normal. =_= The game becomes anything but easy. Consequently,it starts to punish you for simply slashing shit left and right like you did on Normal,forcing you to utilize moves other than the Nitou-Ryu spam and actually look for boss patterns. Also,from the looks of it,nobody even noticed the outstanding voice acting,well-developed storyline and extremely unique design of the world and the characters.

Oh,and then you have the purists throwing hissy fits about how "ohnoes Kurosawa's original vision has been mangled omg!1!!1"

Quite a shame,really. -_-

Okay, I actually bought Seven Samurai 20XX. And played it on Hard. The game wasn't that bad, but you have to admit, for what it could've been it failed miserably. It could have been quite a bit more open-ended and they've could really put a lot more work into the combat system. Honest and truthful, the developers could have made this game easily a triple-A title. It had the voice acting, the graphics were nice, the art design was top-notch, but the gameplay was so lackluster that it made the game come off as just bad.

Even if you forgive the combat system, the game is waaaay too linear. It's literally go here, then go there. Nowhere else. :/

Edit: Didn't realize I was the first post on this page, so I went back and quoted Shuriken to avoid backtracking.

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