It was also awkward to play levels designed with analog controls in mind without them.ДЄnd no, the 3DS circle pad makes it only barely better. That right there is the big issue, combined with the lack of analog movement, dumb inclusion of a run button (which is mapped to a terrible position), and problems already existing with SM64вЂ™s controls. They could just map the controls to D-Pad directly, and yeah then it would be comparable, but instead, here they tried to replicate how analog stick worked with a D-Pad, which ended up making the controls feel very loose and made precise movement impossible.

LetвЂ™s just say that, when I added the D-Pad controls to my SM64 hack it worked better than SM64DS, or at least it wouldвЂ™ve if I added a walk button too as I was planning to, which should tell you something.ДЄnd IвЂ™ve seen some people compare it to playing platformers with a keyboard. The original ds is ugly so heres a ds lite So when I say I like the new content I mean the NEW content, not all the padding they added. I also do remember some stars that were unique in the original game being repeated in the DS version. They unlocked minigames but IвЂ™m sure they could find a better way to do that without recycling content. The rest a dozen or so bunnies had absolutely no reason to exist though. Why? What do they add? I mean I guess they did add the first one to ensure that the players get used to the new controls, but I dunno I thought it was more clever to learn it ourselves like in the original. But 64DS spammed those bunnies everywhere, you even needed to catch one to get into the castle. It was a rather unique event that happened randomly, which made it kinda cool. In the original game, it was something you did twice. I canвЂ™t say that I did enjoy all those bunnies thoвЂ¦ That one rather clever instance of cap combining thing is therefore now gone too, which is kind of a bummer.ДЄt least most of the new content added was good tho, I didnвЂ™t mind the silver star missions and the new levels they added were pretty cool. Like instead of having caps in levels you gotta play the levels with the correct character, which honestly feels like padding. In addition to this, they completely removed the old cap mechanic just to shoehorn their poorly thought out multiple character system. Sure the novelty of playing as Luigi or Wario in SM64 is cool butвЂ¦ yeah So itвЂ™s like out of 4 characters only Mario is the one without serious problems, and at that pointвЂ¦ why have multiple characters to begin with? At that point, it takes more away from the game than it adds. Like, I think his twirl thing is fun and all, but it can also break the game in half, so personally, IвЂ™d rather want to play the game the way itвЂ™s intended. Wario on the other hand felt like a straight-up a downgrade over Mario and was not fun to play as at all.ДЄnd then thereвЂ™s Luigi, whoвЂ™s just Mario but broken. Not to mention that it was weird to play as other characters while hearing YoshiвЂ™s grunts. It was justвЂ¦ thereвЂ¦ДЄnd yes I know that Yoshi can use the caps, but to me, that feels like a lazy way to make people play as him. His unique egg-throwing thing was just not that useful and didnвЂ™t add anything to the gameplay. I mean sure, he was fun to mess with for like 10 minutes total but that was it.

Yoshi played somewhat differently, but they made nothing about him interesting, fun, or preferable over Mario. ItвЂ™s almost as if they knew that going to that room every single time sucked, so they added this workaround method, instead of, you know, thinking of a better way to implement the whole thing and doing that instead.Д«ut a bigger issue with the multiple character system is that all the characters besides Mario sucked. Why not just add proper character switching then? They could properly fix this issue if they did that, but instead, they just kinda went with the whole cap route.

Like, it doesnвЂ™t properly switch characters, it just makes you look like another character for the level. That was such a weird system, you could get these caps within the levels as Yoshi, and вЂњtransformвЂќ into the character the cap belonged to. You have to go to some random room in the castle to properly change characters, but since that was tedious they added a workaround with caps. LetвЂ™s start with the whole multiple characters mechanic and how badly implemented it was.

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