2000s Critics Review Perfect Dark, Turok, Metroid: Zero Mission & Zelda: Four Swords (Switch Online)

This week’s Nintendo Direct was full of brand-new games, including Mario & Luigi: Brothership, a new Zelda-led adventure game and even the return of Metroid Prime. Best of all, they announced four massive games for the Nintendo Switch Online - The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past w/ Four Swords and Metroid: Zero Mission on Game Boy Advance, and Nintendo 64 classics Turok: Dinosaur Hunter and Perfect Dark. That’s cool and exciting news, but are any of these games actually worth playing? To answer that question, I decided to flip through the pages of Electronic Gaming Monthly, Computer & Video Games, Next Generation and more classic magazines to see what the critics said when these games first came out. So, go and grab your favorite spy gadget, because it’s time for another hard-hitting episode o Nintendo Switch Online Review Crew.
0:00 - Introduction
1:04 - Commercial: Legend of Zelda: Four Swords (Japan)
1:35 - The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past w/ Four Swords (GBA)
4:40 - Commercial: Metroid - Zero Mission (Japan)
5:14 - Metroid: Zero Mission (GBA)
8:59 - Turok: Dinosaur Hunter (N64)
13:45 - Commercial: Turok Toys (U.S.)
14:18 - Perfect Dark (N64)
18:54 - Commercial: Perfect Dark (U.S.)
19:26 - Question of the Day
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[@gligarguy4010]

With the introduction of the M rated app, I have hope we'll see Conker's Bad Fur Day someday

[@JM-pm1yb]

Can’t wait to see it in five years.

[@LuigiMario-ni3rj]

It'll be in the September Nintendo Direct.

[@TheSupersmash97]

And resident evil 2

[@ryans.1900]

100% Perfect Dark was my most anticipated, but Conker is right behind it... the multiplayer in that game is so damn good lol

[@jwrfb26]

"The only things that make it stand out are the weapons, enemies, and levels!" Um... Isn't that what makes an FPS game entirely? If all those things are good, what didn't he like about it?

[@Gernam12]

Back then, the idea of the FPS as a genre was more nebulous. And it took a while before games stopped being compared to Doom.

[@DefunctGames]

Yeah, that line stood out to me, too. I joked about it on social media before posting this video. One of these days, I'm going to dive into the full history of Dan vs. First-Person Shooters. He never missed an opportunity to bash the genre. That is, until Halo came out.

[@raymondjack]

Halo f’yea!

[@BatCorkill]

To be fair Turok is one of the worst fps games in it's day. It was just so boring compared to any other fps game of the time.

[@IAMimprov]

Pro tips for Turok: you can use the map to help land your jumps in most platforming sections. Also the N64 controller is recommended as the inverted look feels way less weird on it compared to modern controllers.

[@tulliboy]

Kudos for the quick turnaround

[@beauwalker9820]

One thing I hardly see gamers praise about the GBA version of "Link to the Past" is, the music sounds exactly like the original SNES game. Every other SNES or 16-bit adaption for GBA doesn't sound quite like the original game. (Yes, I am aware GBA is a more powerful 32-bit system, but it has limitations too.) So it's actually quite impressive. Some sound effects are a little off, but they are well recreated too. I wasn't as big a fan of "Young Link's" N64 voice shout samples, as they felt out of place, and they don't match well if you remember in the SNES Yoichi Kotabe art Link looks older in this game.

[@jacobbaranowski]

I want to go for this ride Marvel vs Capcom arcade collection and Metroid Prime 4 ❤

[@TacoDiceCosas]

Year 2000 and some magazines were still treating every FPS like a Doom clone, lol. I guess Halo changed that view for good. My favorite spy game? Metal Gear Solid is the spy series from my heart.

[@WhatIsMatter101]

Because almost all FPS back then was a Doom Clone. Except for Duke Nuke 'Em and Serious Sam. You're probably just a concept by your parents then.

[@wallaceshawn-zk8iw]

Turok was pretty damn good. Turok 2 was even better! Epic Zelda style Shooter

[@Cyberpunknut]

That zelda 4 swords game is one of my favorite games. I managed to get the 3DS digital download and have multiple 3DS units so i can play it with friends. Turok was the one early N64 game i never bought when the N64 came out. Played it for the first time like 15 years after the N64 launch and sure enough, hated it. QOTD, Favorite Spy game would be Metal Gear Solid.

[@KingChewyy]

I remember that EGM magazine @17:10 brings me back.

[@HybridAngelZero]

I admit, I wasn't expecting the GBA version of Link to the Past to show up, but now that I think about it,the ability to play Four Sword online for the first time is amazing, and probably the first time most people will even be able to experience, since the hassle of getting four people with four Link Cables to huddle together is no longer in the equation! And my favorite spy game? Well, it's gotta be the Metal Gear Solid games, right? Which one? Well, it's hard for me to decide between the original trilogy, but Snake Eater has the most "spy" vibes, so for this QotD, it gets the crown

[@DefunctGames]

Snake Eater is easily the best. It's the one game in the series where they actually allow Snake to have a real character arc.

[@simonkormendy849]

I tried playing Four Swords, couldn't play it because there was no single player mode, it kept waiting for the other controllers to connect.

[@pdaigle531]

This is cool as I have always wanted to try out Perfect Dark and now I finally get to. 😄👏🏻

[@Bored_Barbarian]

I love turok. Never played Perfect dark’s story but did multiplayer for years

[@kretschmannjonathan6237]

Turok dinosaur hunter is a 8 out of 10 !

[@priorwitness]

I think these Review Crew videos are your best work. I really enjoy these. QOTD: Spy games? Well that's actually kind of tough for me to narrow down just one since spy games are usually also stealth/action/adventure games. I love games like Metal Gear Solid, Splinter Cell, Syphon Filter, most of the 007 games from the late 90s thru the mid 2000s, and I even liked 007 Blood Stone for PS3/Xbox 360.

[@JenMistress]

That game you play as Zelda really sounds interesting to me, as long as it's better than the CD-I ones. These 4, can't say that I've tried any of them. As for the question, been awhile, but I'm going to answer with a F95 Zone game, and say My Real Desire. Considering your character is a spy in that game, I'll say that counts.

[@Nathan-mu1pz]

2023???? I though it was 2033.... I didn't even realize it but perfect dark already takes place in the past 🤯

[@timmbig]

Perfect Dark. Seems like ish is really about to go down in 2023 😂

[@bantuatha]

The start of rated M games, I heard there are less then 30 games of it, shouldn't be that long to wait add more in near future, Maybe we could get RE2 N64 after all but we will have to wait and see. Oh right, that ad for perfect dark commercial said "It is 2023" and I'm like "Bro we passed that year already"

[@DefunctGames]

I wouldn't hold my breath for any of Capcom's N64 titles. They have been incredibly selective when it comes to what they have offered up to NSO, careful not to conflict with any of the games they are selling in a compilation (like the console Mega Man games) or games they have recently remade (Resident Evil 2). Perhaps they'll prove me wrong.

[@LuigiMario-ni3rj]

I can't wait to play South Park, Chef's Luv Shack and Conker's Bad Fur Day on the Switch. lol Forsaken can stay far away, though.

[@goranisacson2502]

Man, those Zero Mission and Perfect Dark commercials. Joanna doesn't even have a shower scene and Samus is in the zero suit for like 10-20 minutes tops in that stealth segment, but they sure went full tittilation when it came to the commercials... I'm looking most forward to replaying Zero Mission as I played that at a friend while growing up, but they sold it on. Really think it could be cool to see if I still like it despite it's short length. I also played Perfect Dark back in the day, but there's apparently some bugs in the game as we have yet another instance of the NSO's N64 emulation being less than stellar so I'm not going in there for some time. Now I'm just curious what the deal is with "Captain Blood"...

[@alanrockunited]

Frustrated by PD, killed everyone in only the second level and locked doors mean I'm stuck.

[@TexasGex]

Make sure to play on easy your first time to learn the objectives, and use a guide and restore points to make your own checkpoints. Level 2 stumped me too

[@alanrockunited]

@@TexasGex thing is, i did! One door just into "area 2" just won't open.

[@simonkormendy849]

The only downside about the Switch Online update is that for me, Four Swords is virtually unplayable, since I only have one controller and one switch, you need four controllers and four switches to be able to play it, IMHO, it would have been better if we had gotten Four Swords Adventure instead, since it is playable in one-player mode.

[@Mr.scooter-le8yo]

Yoo

[@LuigiMario-ni3rj]

Hollywood is going above and beyond to pander, by way of talking about a female James Bond, when all they have to do is create a Joanna Dark film franchise. 🤦🏻‍♂️