• [VIDEO] AVGN - Super & Virtual Hydlide
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https://youtu.be/HOccLSB9EU8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UZsBKbAJ3R8 Super Hydlide is a weird game, so it's a shame he didn't give it the spotlight it deserved.
I remember seeing Virtual Hydlide being demo'd at a game store here when I was a kid and actually thought 'wow, those graphics are so likelike'
https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/zelda/images/f/fa/Like_Like_%28Majora%27s_Mask%29.png/revision/latest?cb=20110404002801 You're right, it does look like a horrible creature made of vomit and decay
I feel like this was a pretty weak AVGN episode. Neither game seemed like they were that bad for the standards of the time. Most of his specific complaints (as opposed to the general "this is bullshit" ones, which he did too many of) were either "this game's art aged really badly" or "this game's gameplay aged really badly". And like basically every first-gen 3D game's art aged badly, and finding any action-RPG from that era that actually plays well is incredibly rare. We've just advanced so much in both graphics and game design that early stuff feels incredibly clunky and ugly. It's like complaining that pre-1930s films are bad - they're just primitive. I think AVGN should extend his shtick. Take the Earthbound episode and expand from it, review old games that actually were good. Or move the focus forward in time - he's done a few Xb360/PS3/Wii era games, there's plenty of shit there that can be eviscerated, and they don't have the excuse that we were still figuring game design out.
Super Hydlide especially, as of the games released in the west, Super Hydlide looks playable. Virtual Hydlide is a mess and Projareds videos go into deeper about this
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