Game Reviewed | Hello Fangaming Collection, by Hello |
Review Author | RaymanFan1995 |
Created | Sep 1 2015, 5:56 AM |
Pros | You'd think after ten years of game development, there'd be at least one pro in this game. Sadly, that's far from the case. While the game isn't entirely flawed, the few good things about this game don't make up for the many bad things. I guess I could say that, like all his games, the player physics aren't horrible, but there's a ton of room for improvement. And the music selection is fine. |
Cons | -Horribly-implemented and unnecessary lighting and filtering effects that causes eye sores -Bad level design that comes back from other horribly-designed games with no improvement whatsoever -Enemy placement that can be hard to avoid |
Gameplay 1 / 10 |
Like I said in the "Pros" section, the game's physics aren't horrible, but they could be a lot better. But even if they were solid, the bad level design and enemy placement do not make up for it. And each level in this game is just a level ripped right from a past Hello game. If Hello's past games were better designed, this wouldn't be much of a problem. |
Graphics 1 / 10 |
Like all of Hello's games, this game, once again, uses nothing but SMB3 and SMB3-esque art assets. While that wouldn't normally be a problem, the fact that these graphics are overused by Hello (and even the fangaming community in general) makes the game's visuals worthy of an eye roll. There's not much that's visually interesting about this game, though there is a second reason to this: the horrible filtering. In "Super Mario Eclipse" and "Super Mario Dynamo" (the two games that were released directly before this one), Hello implemented lighting effects which caused eye strain. It wasn't much, mind you, but similar to the Virtual Boy, your vision would get messed up the longer you played the game. Unsurprisingly, people complained about this issue, and unsurprisingly, Hello didn't listen. In fact, not only are these strenuous lighting effects back in full force, but now, most of the stages seem to have horrible contrast and saturation filtering. This, of course, causes the eyes to strain even faster than the damned lighting effects. |
Sound 3 / 10 |
The music selection is fine, and even pretty catchy at points. But the vanilla sound effects and overused Mario voice clips (that are used in pretty much every Hello clone, by the way) are pretty irritating. Since these sound effects and voice clips are overused, they really bring down this section's score. |
Replay 1 / 10 |
I wouldn't touch this game again with a 10-foot pole. And seeing as this game is just a collection of levels used in past Hello titles, that means I wouldn't touch any of those games again with a 10-foot pole, either. |
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The few "good" things about this game (which aren't necessarily spectacular to begin with) do not make up for the many bad things. I expected yet another Hello Clone from the master of Hello Clones himself, but I never expected he'd stoop so low to the point where he'd literally copy and paste bad level designs from past games, AND make the visuals even worse while he was at it. Hello, if you ever wake up from your fantasy world and come back to reality by actually listening to peoples' advice and making an actually GOOD game, PLEASE have someone let me know. I highly doubt it'll ever happen, but if it does, I'll be impressed. Oh, and to those reading this who think I'm being rude, you probably haven't read the entire review and therefore have no right to point fingers at me. And if you have read the entire review, you clearly haven't been around as long as I and other critics have. |
Comments |
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Cruise Elroy Sep 1 2015, 11:31 PM |
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I would normally say you need a better reason to give such a low score to bring the game's average rating to your own desire, but at least it's on someone who would be more obviously inclined to this kind of treatment.
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AsteriskX Sep 20 2015, 7:41 AM |
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You make some of my favorite reviews on the site. (including the review for the abomination of a game Super Mario: Attack Of The Fangamers) This wasn't exactly your best review, but you covered certain aspects that really stood out, so nice review. ;) Keep it up, Somari. |
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