Bowser's Fury Review - A Tight, Solid Little Collect-a-thon

[@euphzilla03]

Nintendo did make an option to wake Bowser up. They locked it to his amiibo.

[@Pariah6950]

Really? So stupid.

[@grimey3480]

I replay this game quite often. It's like Sonic CD, Mania, or Link's Awakening in the sense where I can just hop in, complete it in a relatively low amount of time, and be satisfied. A lot of my favorite games of all time are pretty short games because of that. I hate the lucky island shines in this game though.

[@BraviaGames]

I hope Sonic gets back to the idea of "It's like Mario, but better." Sonic Frontiers take notes Edit: Now that I think about it, Yuji Naka said Sonic should use one button because Mario needed two. He also added Co-op in Sonic 2 because you had to take turns in Mario. I wonder what other gameplay mechanics were added in response to Mario?

[@starstorm4077]

Honestly I feel pretty much the same about Bowser's Fury, Odyssey and Frontiers. It would be really great if the followup to Frontiers manages to have the cohesion Bowser's Fury had. It's also funny Bowser's Fury and Frontiers both have the silly "wait for the chance to do the thing" challenges.

[@jesuspernia8031]

I think it will have cohesion since the reception to Frontiers is very positive and I’m pretty sure they’re gonna take this gameplay style and story and continue it for a while. At least for one more game. Although a new Sonic game probably won’t happen for a while I give it 3-4 years.

[@Comet9000.]

this aged well

[@yoshimilkman3692]

Plessise can dive underwater when you press the run button. In the final boss, you're supposed to dive underneath the lasers. Also, if you jump after surfacing from a dive, Plessie will do a bigger jump.

[@Pariah6950]

...I'm an idiot. How did I not think of that?

[@JustJohn43]

Confirmation, i was looking for this comment

[@BraviaGames]

You can't do that in the main game right? I think it's exclusive to Bowser's Fury

[@Yuti640]

My big issue with Mario Odyssey was the fact that the main collectible felt very pointless to collect because of how abundant they are Bowser’s Fury fixed that Bowser’s Fury is my odyssey

[@Nic_2751]

Honestly my exact opinion, I feel a Breath of the Wild approach where having more valuable items behind secret challenges that are optional is a better idea in general and should be the case

[@Sylocat]

@@Nic_2751 That's what the multi-moons were for in Odyssey.

[@Nic_2751]

@@Sylocat they barely do shit and are boss exclusive, but then that makes all moons worthless and mundane, plus the challenges become nullified

[@Yuti640]

@@Sylocat if the game was all multi moon tier challenges, odyssey would be amazing

[@sb6196]

11:16 actually it started in Yoshi's island with baby Bowser.

[@dmclsl03]

Thinking about this game in specific not just brings me joy because this is one of my favorite Mario games ever made. but also because of the crazy shit they could do with the next full 3D Mario game (if) they're using Odyssey and This as a base for the next one, makes me excited for a (possible) future.

[@lrc4263]

Press ‘Y’ on Plessie to dip underwater. That’s how you avoid Bowser’s fire attack! :)

[@Yuti640]

Someone reviewing Bowser’s Fury? A year later? Great, cause it’s an amazing game!

[@seematahir5970]

You had me right up until the end of the video lol. Frontiers smacks a lot more of Odyssey to me than BotW. Yeah it has some aesthetic parallels and there are surface-level analogues like shrines and cyberspace, but one is an open world adventure game and the other is a sandbox collectathon. Hell I'd say it takes more inspiration from Shadow of the Colossus than BotW. And bro that Odyssey-Unleashed comparison had me stunned. I'm trying to wrap my head around it, and I guess there is SOME stuff (globe-trotting adventure stories, MC forms a friendship with a tiny floating thing, werehog has some collectathon elements) but the games are so distinct in terms of identity it kinda took me aback. The ancitipation continues to build for your Unleashed video.

[@Ismazing]

In Spider-Man 3 the movie game there's a walk button. It is literally useless but I remember spending lots of time as a kid just walking around in the open world along the npc citizens and crossing streets when the light was green and stuff (Totally a not autistic thing to do)

[@Laekith]

I kinda prefer this game to Odyssey. My only problem is the Bowser blocks

[@mrhalfsaid1389]

You ignored that you can dive, that's why you took so much damage in the final boss

[@CassiusStelar]

also avoiding those lasers is easy, just press the run button and you dive underwater

[@elmark3550]

Imagine this formula for a galaxy sequel were instead of traveling through water to reach islands to travel through space to reach planets. It could be really cool because the map could have a lot of height but I imagine that the method of traveling between planets could be easily cheesed to skip platforming

[@Hugo-yz1vb]

Fury Bowser Theme is one of the best songs in the franchise

[@ErikSchuessler]

Lol, cracked up at the Il Piantissimo shout out.

[@stevenshockley4237]

Bowser Jr. should have been Shadow Mario in co-op. Shadow Mario is amazing and underrated.

[@Nic_2751]

In short: I loved it, but I can see a bit of rinse and repeat here that definitely could use some expanding, but I do like the ideas here that can be fleshed out to make a new 3D Mario that gives us something fresh and challenging

[@AwshomeHat]

There is a way to make Bowser wake up whenever you want, but it can only be done with the Bowser amiibo

[@AwshomeHat]

And to avoid the final boss fire blasts you just had to dive under the water

[@joshs_junk]

you actually can summon bowser with the bowser amiibo but its to sucks a good feature is locked behind a paywall

[@graymars1097]

Oh Pariah coming in hot 🔥 Dude 3D platformers are MY genre. I bought the Nintendo switch just to play Mario Odyssey! I still play pacman world, a 3d platformer on PS1, on my PSVITA (modded with RetroArch and yeah it's plays beautifully). OK, now so more plz!

[@Farkonso]

I switched my run button to ZR for this game

[@murdcrockdolphin]

That’s actually a great idea! Sounds really convenient for a game like this.

[@magg166]

same! I also do it for the 2D mario games for some reason lol (other than wonder)

[@SaddieMoon]

2:05 Ironically, a game that has next to no loading screens, shares the reloading world for no reason problem Sonic 06 had. At least the loading screens aren’t as obnoxiously long.

[@Austinator0630]

Bowser's Fury is a red flag that Nintendo has no idea what they're planning.

[@kipame]

i always tell my friends that Bowser's Fury is the closest to 64 we will ever get again but no one ever agreed with me, it's nice to see that someone else gets it. i do prefer BF over Odyssey because the level design feels more tight and you're not running over nothing pieces of land for too long, there is no downtime between collecting Shines

[@Nic_2751]

Please tell me you learned how to control Plessie after post editing

[@ghosty2548]

I both agree and disagree with Sonic frontiers part but the disagree parts are more about combat and some minigame stuff which I understand you don't really like. But I agree with level design obviously. Tbh Bowser's fury' biggest advantage is that the world feels complete while Frontiers feels like it's not finished sadly. Story I think there is no competation that frontiers wins(to me makes the final boss feel better) but that's not really anything big since Bowsers fury don't focus on that and it does a good job at it with what it's doing.

[@joshhacker8503]

Still sad we never got Banjo-Threeie. Getting Banjo and Kazooie in Smash was great, but hearing that Rare still had no plans to go back was a huge disappointment

[@Pariah6950]

I mean, Yooka-Laylee is basically Banjo 3. And the current Rare is not the same one that made the Banjo games. Xbox should hand Banjo over to someone like Gears for Breakfast like Sega did with Streets of Rage 4.

[@joshhacker8503]

@@Pariah6950 No offense but I didn't like Yooka-Laylee at all. I actually played it on a livestream once, and I regretted it ever since. Unlike the 2 Banjo-Kazooie games, I ran around same level for god knows how long looking for more stuff to do. Even in Banjo-Tooie I didn't have this much trouble. I felt so much boredom and frustration. I will acknowledge it's possible that I mearly missed some stuff. However, I find it hard to believe I could spend so much time exploring the same level and barely find anything. Collectathons are a style of games I have a lot of experience with, and Yooka-Laylee is the only obe I would never play again.

[@Pariah6950]

@@joshhacker8503 Personally, I liked it more than Tooie. A lot of Yooka's problems are problems Tooie has. I'll talk about those games at some point.

[@joshhacker8503]

@@Pariah6950 I look forward to it👍 I enjoy your reviews, and can honestly say I have seen some games in a new light after watching. Maybe you can highlight sone of the better parts of Yooka I never saw. I will never deny Banjo-Tooie has problems. I replayed those games a lot over the years, and I definitely see the flaws. Hell, I fully admit it has one of my most hated quests in all of gaming (bringing food tobthe cavemen) purely because of the amount of time spent to get 1 Jiggy. That said, I have always been able to accept the flaws easier because I'm still having fun for 90% of that game. I'm just speaking frommy own personal experience. Yooka-Laylee was the first time I can honestly say I didn't have fun. I wasn't hooked in like I normally am, and the search for more first level objectives became less about playing the game and more about fighting boredom. By the time I ended the stream, I genuinely couldn't believe how empty the early part of the game felt. I actually went back and replayed a larg sample of collectathon games in my collection just to be sure I wasn't looking back through rose tinted glasses. I had a little marathon of the early parts of these games (The Banjo games, The 3D Mario games, Jak and Daxter, Donkey Kong 64, Ect.) In every case, I had plenty to do, and it didn't lead to me running around the same level gor an hour (give or take) just hoping to find more quests, npcs or random objects. I am very thorough with these games, so even if it's one I haven't played in a while it doesn't take long for me to find stuff. If other people like the game, then more power to them. I base my feelings on it purely on how much fun I had, and there was not a lot to be had. At certain points during my steam I honestly was close to calling it quits. I have to stick to my guns on this one.

[@keeby4]

Great game. Sometimes I just make a new save file and 100% the game in a few days if I’m bored.

[@thememerschemer6627]

Am I the only one who thinks it should have been “Bowser’s Fury + 3D World” instead of “3D World + Bowser’s Fury”?

[@CassiusStelar]

bowser Smash amiibos are very common and can be obtained pretty cheaply online... or just... you know... get some cheap NFC cards and write your own... those wake him up whenever you want

[@aortaplatinum]

Your comparison to Sonic with the "big epic awesome shit" makes me want to ask- considering your stance on modern games and updates and "playing a game at launch almost always gives you the worst experience", now that SEGA's announced three free update waves for Sonic Frontiers containing pretty big shit and then a MASSIVE one at the end with new playable characters and what seems to be an epilogue, will you be waiting until all that is out and patched to stability to do a Sonic Was Always Good on the game, or is it just, "once I've done Forces and TSR, I'll just do Frontiers then even if it's still got content updates coming"?

[@Pariah6950]

Not sure. Time will tell.

[@karnagefails333]

Thanks for your content dude.

[@ImHeggHogg]

great content, enjoyed the game as well when it came out, remember me when you hit 100k subs, i believe in you lol

[@owlmanz8171]

7:33 who's gonna tell him?

[@Big-Image]

Could you review Blue Fire?

[@Pariah6950]

Probably will when I get around to playing it.

[@grimey3480]

Btw Pariah what do you think of Super Monkey Ball?

[@Pariah6950]

Not really a fan, surprisingly.

[@grimey3480]

@@Pariah6950 aw man, well, that's okay of course

[@elibonham4388]

It seems like to me you failed to learn how to plessie he's awesome

[@orangemario]

Come on now 3d land is worse than 3d world.

[@Pariah6950]

It's been a long time since I played 3D Land. Can't compare them too well. But I remember enjoying it more when I played it than I did 3D World.

[@jesuspernia8031]

I prefer 3D Land a bit more tbh