Junpei

I was actually thinking about this a bit earlier today and I think they made the right choice to limit the players control over jumping. The whole fantasy of being a cat is to be nimble enough to gracefully balance and navigate effortlessly. That's not to say the solution they came up with doesn't occasionally get mixed up, but the thought of having full control and trying to consistently land on thin planks and railings seems like it could get super frustrating when you miss. Maybe there is a middle ground with more control and then just magneting the cat to the perceived destination, but that could get cumbersome too if the game misinterprets what you are trying to do and keeps overcorrecting.

Might be cheating a bit, but I was super excited for Dinosaur Planet (N64) and significantly less so once it was retooled into Starfox Adventures and pushed back for Gamecube.

I had an N64 so it is close to my heart, but the amount of classics that came out during the SNES era is insanely tough to beat ( PS2 would be close). The fact that the traditional sprite work of the SNES just holds up better and is easier to go back to than the early 3D polygons of N64 and PS1 makes it an easier choice as well.

That said I did just buy an aftermarket N64 controller to replace my original Atomic Purple because of a limp stick. Need to replay Ogre Battle 64 and finally get some other endings.

@mrpotato Looking through the Similar games list my guess is Brain Dead 13. Shaggy-esque MC in a mansion with monsters. In the gameplay vid I can hear the ping of the interactive button being pressed, but there is no onscreen indicator which seems to line up with the description. Take a look: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P7c7T0qADzo

No worries. Glad I could help. I remember buying that game when it first came out and for one reason or another it occupies a weird space in my head.

Yeah that's definitely a weird one. I've had my launch PS5 next to my base version PS4 since I got it. Both feeding through a shared HDMI switcher (though I should probably put the 5 separate for the HDR stuff in retrospect).

Only weird controller things I've encountered with my systems was when I really wanted the orange/blue PS4 controller, but it wasn't in my region. It must have shipped from EU and when I got it all audio from the headphone jack was 2-3 times louder than my other controllers and it would drop inputs. Kind of like it was running at a different frequency from the rest. I assume you are just using the stock DualSense that came with the console? If it's all from the same region then I wouldn't expect there to be any weird crossing/interference between the two.

@iamoweis: Depending on what system it was on there was a PS2 game released in 2004/2005 called Demon Stone. There were three characters (a fighter, a sorcerer and a wood elf) that you could toggle between on the fly. I don't remember exactly how it began so not sure if it lines up, but it was the first that came to my head.

Edit: Looks like it was also on XBox and PC. Here's an old E3 trailer for it.

@mezmero: Yeah I was in a similar boat. While I didn't hate playing it, the game definitely went on far too long. The crazy ending made me glad I played it (never got around to 2 though), but it definitely overstayed it's welcome.

Edit: Realize I wrote ones I dropped instead of ones I finished missing the point of the thread. I do intend to finish P5 so I'll leave that go, but Horizon is just not worth my time to return to at this point. Original post in spoiler block.

More accurate to the topic, FFXV like so many others here. It had moments and ideas that kept me going, but overall the combat was not where it needed to be and the story (I played the original release) was broken and incomplete. Essentially a lot of the criticism and rationale that is shared elsewhere in this thread and on the internet.

Odyssey. My biggest issue with Galaxy was a lack of freedom in gameplay. In both Mario 64 and Odyssey you can load into a level and just explore. Galaxy felt very linear to me which is not what I wanted out of 3D Mario coming off of Mario 64 (I didn't have a Gamecube so never played Sunshine). You basically just picked a star and it reconfigured the level so you only had one option. While this was a thing in 64 to a degree, you could always stumble onto something else and get it instead while exploring.