Essentially if you're holding down a button, using any part of the finger besides the end seems icky to and unnatural to me.

I think I get why you'd prefer it but I couldn't. With the GC example to rotate your thumb you have to press A with the underside of your knuckle, which I can't see being comfortable for me. With the diamond you can hit b and [a or y] while you're still holding down x with the end of your thumb.

Super Metroid would fit I guess? Run, shoot and jump are all on face buttons and there are times where you want to be able to do all three at once (or in really quick succession). In fact if super was on the GC I assume you would have to make run X or Y, and jump on B, which would suck hard.

Personally think the GC controller just wouldn't work for far to many games to be a standard. Like could you imagine DMC, Bayonetta or Kingdom hearts on it? It would be terrible. Especially bayonetta, kick and punch would have to on x and y and be so far away from all of the other buttons.

Formchange like modes that instead makes your moveset entirely combo attacks with donald/goofy would be sick.
I find it weird that despite how much emphasis it puts on sora needing donald and goofy, KH3 is where they are at their most useless and ignorable.

This is actually one of the few things I like about prime 4. Iirc this only really happens between duke and Armstrong. I found it a cool way to show how close and familiar they are in a subtle way.

Yeah this is one of the things I think of when thinking of kh3's poor general combat feel. Doesn't help that all osaka era games (except re:com & re:mind) are mostly filled with sluggish and bad contextual moves. They are usually worse than walking/air sliding to the enemy and attacking would be.

Actually maybe change most to a lot. I haven't paid much attention to the reviews the game has gotten but I think it's been mostly positive. So very possible I'm in the minority and I'm just very biased.

It just makes me sad. Despite enjoying the game I just felt depressed like halfway through.

There's also the fact 2&3 are compromised because of external factors (2's tiny dev time and 3 being for Wii users with motion controls) and are considered worse or so so as metroidvanias. Even if they re-released 2&3 I think most people would be sad 4 doesn't attempt to capture the same magic of 1.

I don't want to be a negative little shit since you're enjoying the game (more power to you, I have had fun as well).
But you say this like p4 isn't more devolved than even p3. Played 2&3 last week and they felt like metroid. Minus the controls most of p4 didn't even feel like a Metroid game to me.

Not even that. It's been long time since I played it so I'm not sure if the analogy is rock solid, but I keep feeling like prime 4 is beyond good and evil in disguise.

Please do rainy turtoloid first lol. You don't want your first time with that stage to be with nightmare effects. Also the game doesn't say this but once a nightmare effect is activated it never goes away. The boss icon being red only shows that a new effect has been activated for that stage.

Undecided between if this means voice acting is the most expendable part of video games, or if trav is currently fighting the Lovecraftian horrors.

The Chaos Board

It's always funny when a game retroactively adds achievements later on, or there are achievements for different games in a collection. Automatically get some of the 'rarest' achievements for doing mostly mundane things.

Doesn't steam input let you tie commands to specifically releasing a button? I've never tried anything like this but maybe you have to tie releasing the d-pad buttons to some sort of neutral state for the mouse?

Would you have any idea if DS piracy being accessible and prevalent at the time would have also affected mega man? I wouldn't be surprised if that eat up all of the remaining non-fans customer base that wouldn't have been turned off by this sentiment. (e.g kids without a lot of disposable income).

This is really funny timing. I only just recently finished the game after dropping it for months because of other things getting in the way. (I first found and brought the game because of a post from you as well lol)