Or Wii points. With craftfully engineered payment options and prices so that emptying your account was a puzzle where you always end up buying something you didn't really want.
Combined with star points in Europe, the loyalty reward points that you couldn't use for anything for years... And then they let you exchange them for Wii points, at a ridiculously low conversion rate, and you're struggling to use those again.
I don't think it would be possible for a bad sequel to ruin a game I liked.
Metroid Other M has not ruined previous Metroids for me (its terrible Adam Malkovich depiction doesn't even register when I'm playing Fusion, since the character has barely any continuity between the two).
Okamiden did not ruin Okami, it just sucked on its own and what little story it tried to change I disregard. I'd replay Okami today in a heartbeat.
Xenoblade Chronicles 2 took a direction I hated, both in style and gameplay, and it made me want to replay XC1. I did. It's still awesome, though XC3 became my favourite.
And complete opposite of the topic : Baten Kaitos was not bad, but kind of a silly popcorn game to me. Baten Kaitos Origins did not ruin this game : it was so great and flipped the interpretation of the first game so well it made BK better.
... How is that the name of an actual game?
Just in case, no, that was a joke about Voltaire, the philosopher.
The phrase "Holy Roman Empire" is most commonly used for the German empire that went from Charlemagne to 1800-ish (long after the fall of the "other" Roman Empire). Voltaire criticized the HRE of his time calling it "neither holy, nor Roman or an empire".
This quote is kind of a meme among Crusader Kings players for example because HRE is kind of a pain in these games.
Oh ya. I remember Stephanie Sterling trying that one and it looked like empty, boring shit. IIRC it also had some previously unique characters being assigned a generic weapon. It's the kind of stuff I already thought was lame on a smaller scale in both Fire Emblem Warriors, where most characters share like 6 movesets or so.
Voltaire just got banned from Steam.
Has the main series evolved in gameplay a bit? I have only played a Samurai Warriors on 3DS long ago, and the rest of my experience are licenced spin-offs.
Especially Age of Calamity which was by far the best I've played. Every character feels different, there are lots of options and specific counters depending on the enemy, environment, etc.
I don't enjoy most cheeses but if they replace our actual bread with shitty sugary stuff I'm joining the task force to kill Superman.
I only played 1 and the very beginning of 2. First one had that weird brawler/edgy Legend of Zelda mix that kinda filled a void at the time for me. It was not incredible, but it was well made and fun.
Now that I think about it, it was around the time I got a 360 because Nintendo had nothing to release for a while, and among a few other games, I got Bayonetta, this and Lords of Shadow. That was a very brawly period in my library.
Not sure why I didn't get far in 2. I got it on Wii U, in a bundle if I remember correctly. I mostly remember a very dark and rocky starting area that must not have caught my interest.
Well, it was the only switch 2 game. Bananza is actually pretty cool.
You overestimate LoZ's popularity and underestimate Mario Kart's. Not even those two particular entries, but in general. And I say that despite being a sucker for both the LoZ series and the less conventional BotW/TotK.
BotW sold a lot for a Zelda game and even then it sold a lot less than Mario Kart 8 DX (despite it being a port of an older game).
My take though? I got the bundle mostly because I expected better from MK World. It's not a complete dud, but I would agree it's rather underwhelming. MK8 is still my favourite and I would never consider it "a boring racing game" in any way.
It would be way more useful on NES (and Game Boy) because some idiot decided Switch B was NES B and Switch Y was... nothing at all.
That's not how thumbs work. You can't have your thumb rest on both Switch B and A like you could on a NES (or GB) B and A, the orientation is wrong for that.
On a SNES button pattern, you've got two diagonals, B-Y and A-X, with B-Y being the important default, natural one and A-X the alternative options for which you slide up with your thumb.
At least A-X works on switch online NES, but B-Y should too. They're the basic button pair everything else uses.
Well, I did say a sequel would probably not ruin a game I liked... And admittedly, yeah, this involves very few competitive multiplayer games.
The part about a beloved franchise or character didn't really evoke that kind of ruining to me. But I get that point of view.