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Originally Posted by EVOLghost
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A friend told me about that the other day and he made it sound like the coolest thing since those Blade Runner-style lighted umbrellas you can buy at Think Geek. I gave it a shot and while the concept is pretty neat, as a game it's not really practical to play as any of the other characters besides Mario or Megaman. Samus is only useful when you've fully powered up (getting the Fire Flower gives you the Wave Beam), otherwise she fires right overtop of most enemies and doesn't have enough range to hit item boxes without a least a Mushroom. Bill is great for hitting item boxes, but he has to duck to hit enemies, and Simon's jumping is so stiff and low they needed to give him a double jump. And like Samus and Bill, his whip goes right overtop the bad guys and has to duck to hit anything. Link is halfway useful because he's faster than everyone, but he cannot fire sword blasts without a Fire Flower. Of course, everyone can kill things by jumping on them like Mario, and Link's speed gives him the ability to rack up bounce kill combo points very easily, but if you've got a real weapon...you should use it, don't you think?
So A+ for the concept, but a B- for the execution. If nothing else, it does show how well game characters are tuned to their individual game worlds, and what works well in one game might not so much in another...