MFGG - Mario Fan Games Galaxy

Review Information

Game Reviewed	Hello Fangaming Collection, by Hello
Review Author	Ryan Silberman
Created	Sep 5 2015, 4:23 PM

General Commentary and Game Overview

10 years. 10 years of doing monotonous Mario clones. Was that really worthy of a celebration? Does Hello honestly think that his widely criticized approach to making fangames has been filled with enough false praise to indicate that he needed to CELEBRATE the fact that he's shamed the website with the shoddy, soulless craftsmanship he frequently brings to the table? Just the fact that he takes pride in trolling us over with a lack of change for 10 years makes me think that this game is not even worthy of a 1. After all, Hello certainly doesn't seem like he wants to try and improve for a frickin' DECADE, so why should I put forth an effort for him to justify a point score that's any higher than a 0?

Pros

-It's functional??

Cons

-Let's celebrate 10 years of redundancy! Yaaay!
-Cheap enemy placement
-Limited power-up variety
-Limited song choices
-Obnoxious songs and lighting effects
-Problems in previous Hello games are back in full force
-"Super Mario Dynamo is the best Hello game!"
-"The Hello Engine is so useful and user-friendly! Have you made a fangame with it?"
-"Let's elaborate on the many great games that Hello has created over the decade!"
-No ending

Impressions

Gameplay 1 / 10	The gameplay is literally the same crap people have dealt with in the various other Hello games created over the years, made even more blatant by the fact that these are all levels rehashed from said previous Hello games upchucked together in putrid lighting effects. You'd think that after 10 years, Hello would have learned to add a better variety of powers or make the enemy placement fairer, and whatever problems the levels are hampered with, but they've actually been left alone here, and the power-ups actually had been STRIPPED of variety. The Fire Flower is the best bet, but too bad there's so many enemies that you might just lose it easy! And then there's gimmicks like the bomb bricks that you don't even get a hint about, but then it hits you hard for the sake of trial-and-error once you realize what the newly seen objects are. It's dumb, makes for fake difficulty, and the fact that this is 10 years in the making is a disaster of a thought. Not to mention there isn't an ending, so why bother playing it in the first place?
Graphics 1 / 10	Yes, the same old Mario 3 graphical style has been used yet again for this compilation, because would you ever expect anything different from Hello? Oh? Why is this a -7 you ask? Because, my dear friend - The Toads. I have to look at their dialogue boxes to see their egotistical descriptions of Hello fangames, right? They are graphics. And those descriptions are some of the most mindless soulless advertise-y wastes of code I've ever seen on MFGG. And then there's the fact that Mario speaks in text like in the much-beloved (according to Hello) Super Mario Dynamo. This likely means you'll see more of Soulless Text Mario in later games since it's tested out so well for the audience (aka Hello himself). Oh yeah, and the visual lighting effects from Mario Eclipse are back in full force almost as if they're purposely trying to annoy anybody that isn't Hello.
Sound 1 / 10	I'll give you a positive point only because it's not like any other game on MFGG has music like this. However, a 1/10 is obviously (to everyone that isn't Hello anyway) not a good score. This is because the music chosen is some of the most obnoxious remixes of Mario music ever to be picked for a fangame, and I don't believe there's one song in here that decides to not be a musical soccer horn.
Replay 1 / 10	Not only does this make me not want to touch a Hello game again, but it also makes me not want to play any previous or future Hello game. If it took Hello 10 years to do nothing but fancy up the graphics with dumb visual effects, then chances are it'll just take him 10 more years to figure out the use of the same old Mario voice clips are annoying. I've officially lost all motivation to try and hope for the better for Hello. We could only wait on him to see if he could actually get out of that cold hard robotic shell of his to get creative.

Final Words

It's time for something to change.

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Comments

	Ryan Silberman Sep 7 2015, 3:08 PM
(Looks to see the scores are 1s now) Well......this is kinda awkward.......


	Dollarluigi Sep 16 2015, 3:41 AM
There's nothing wrong with an opinion and there are a few points that I agree with you on. However, everyone seems to over-exaggerate how "bad" this game is. This is part of the reason I don't really come here often. I don't really like the community. Rather than provide criticism that's actually constructive, everyone always has to make a list of "complaints" if we can call them that in a form that's not pleasant to read.


	Ryan Silberman Sep 19 2015, 3:10 AM
Quote (Dollarluigi on Sep 16 2015, 3:41 AM) There's nothing wrong with an opinion and there are a few points that I agree with you on. However, everyone seems to over-exaggerate how "bad" this game is. This is part of the reason I don't really come here often. I don't really like the community. Rather than provide criticism that's actually constructive, everyone always has to make a list of "complaints" if we can call them that in a form that's not pleasant to read. It's not just how bad the game is. It's how bad Hello's attitude is, as now I'm able to criticize THAT considering the game's centered around it. And the fact it took 10 years for this to exist.


	Dollarluigi Sep 25 2015, 11:43 PM
Quote (Jack-of-All Games on Sep 19 2015, 3:10 AM) It's not just how bad the game is. It's how bad Hello's attitude is, as now I'm able to criticize THAT considering the game's centered around it. And the fact it took 10 years for this to exist. I never really noticed anything wrong with his attitude, honestly. It could be because I'm a little oblivious at times. But what exactly is wrong with his attitude?


	SMBXfan Aug 4 2016, 11:26 PM
Quote (Dollarluigi on Sep 26 2015, 12:43 AM) But what exactly is wrong with his attitude? He never accepts, takes, or responds to ANY criticism whatsoever!

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