Quick Look: NES Remix 2

I found the comment weird from Brad when he said that all the NES games have different movement physics.

I mean, isn't that like all games ever. Arkham Asylum and Assassin's Creed also don't have the same movement physics.

I just find it a puzzling reaction.

I watched this out of interest of what it was but I have zero nostalgia for these games so this looks so unappetizing.

I find it adorable how Brad is absolutely terrible at quite possibly the simplest Nintendo game ever created, Kirby. Though with how video games have advanced these days, going back to something as simple as Kirby would probably be really confusing for a few minutes, doesn't help that this is his first experience with the game, too.

Brad seems to love super mario bros 2 but doesn't love wario's wood? Some hypocrisy or nostalgia is afoot, they're both the same mechanically.

Kirby is the one Nintendo character I have genuine nostalgia for. I only had a Game Boy, but played the shit out of Kirby's Dreamland 1 and 2 on that thing. Great mechanics (especially 2) and visual design, and the music is incredible. So much joy orchestrated from the DMG-1 sound chip.

Is it just me or is the textured background they add in some of the remix levels horrible to look at? It looks like something from an old Paint Shop Pro.

FLAPPY BRAD!

Yeah, that's exactly how the first game was. Mostly little quick challenges. There's a decent chunk of remixes, but they still comprise only about 1/4 of the challenges overall.

I really like these games, and I totally understand why they'd market the hell out of the remix stages, but it is pretty misleading.

@len1444 said:

Okay, so, you can pick stuff up in both. What else?

I guess they are supposed to be tutorial like levels as all the games are 20-25 years old. Just sucks that these tutorial challenges make up a lot of the content.

this doesn't seem very... good

We needed Jeff in on this to call Brad out on his bullshit excuses.

What the !! the timer in metroid is not seconds. 1 second is halv a second, so 30 second is 15 seconds...

nes remix is just a way to make gamers to pay money,, its very bad nintendo..

Wow you people suck. Brad didn't play that poorly at all in this. That Kirby level was bullshit, and he said he never even played the game before that moment. I don't care what kind of nostalgia goggles you're wearing; the jumping in Metroid and Mario is not at all intuitive to how most every platformer handles their jumping nowadays, and it's easy to forget how floaty they were.

You could have told me this was a episode of Breaking Brad and I would have believed you.

Maybe I should get a Wii U. Not for this game, of course, but just...maybe...

holy god brad playing kirby made me want to die

I don't know what to think, anymore. The stated mission of this website was to provide the finest Dr. Mario play, but somewhere we lost our way.

Kirby's Adventure is one of the best NES games.

That's all I have to say.

He just meant that you typically don't play games with very different movement schemes in rapid succession. Unless you happen to be a Wario Ware fanatic.

He's not wrong. He's just kind of a sourpuss.

If brad used a mix of flapping and then exhaling to parasol then back to flapping again, he would have beaten that Kirby part way sooner. good on him for not using the parasol, that's tricky.

This pretty much sums up the tone of the Quick Look. Maybe Nintendo should add "press A to win" if the challenges are too demanding. NES Remix 2 has an interesting idea in changing game play to established games. The problem is the stink of repackaged nostalgia.

Wow! This game does not look fun.

I'll be the downer but mang, this looks just so unappealing. I don't get where the fun is meant to be. Oh well. easily solved, as I don't have a wii!

Great quick look! Although, wow, Brad's never played a Kirby game? He should get on that, they're pretty fun.

@brad Play Kirby. Also Kirby's Dream Course on SNES is a super creative mini golf game.

I'm normally not bothered by differences of opinion between myself and the Giant Bomb staff, but I have never been more enraged by an opinion about video games than when Brad casually dismissed Kirby's Adventure. How dare you? How dare you, Bradley? Kirby is a saint.

Fuck Dark Souls. Play Kirby.™

@drewbert I saw no mention of this in the comments, but the Youtube version of this cuts off 10 minutes early, about 45 minutes in.

@krabboss: The first Super Mario Bros. still plays way better than later SNES or PS1 platformers.

Yep, continues not to be a "remix".

Sure there are reasons to play SMB1! The view that the sequels are better (subjectively or objectively) don't erase all reasons to play SMB1. One could simply play it for perspective or a refresher thereof, which was the original P.O.V. that started this mess. That it presents a different set of game play challenges from the sequels (like being unable to backtrack) one might appreciate (subjectively or objectively) is another. Check out the recent VinnyVania series which ties in nostalgia, capitalism and redemption for yet another reason in a similar vein.

I do applaud the hilarious attempts to lighten the mood with Jeff style lifted commentary like "hot shit" though. Shows we're not taking our weird anti-nostalgia and oddball video game zealotry overly serious in these here Giant Bomb parts. Unless it was serious, then I say, you're welcome to hate and maybe someday you'll have a similar dismissive experience granting perspective that causes you to rethink a bit.

Going right to left in a mario game would be like writing with your other hand.