13 November 2020

The Four Horsemen of Bad Minigames!

Good grief! I began writing this in November 2019. Now, since my own game is out, I think it's the right time to go back and finish this entry...

So, on my voyages through the low-end of the Nintendo DS gaming library (and beyond the DS as well), I noticed a notorious pattern in the minigames department. The same minigames (or iterations thereof) kept popping up, again and again. It reached the point where it's both hilarious and sad to me seeing them in a game, or even in a trailer of an upcoming product.
If there's a low-end game (be it a kids game, a girls game, a knock-off game, a quick-made game, etc, etc...), then it's guaranteed that one of the Four Horsemen (as I like to call them ;)) appear. And this isn't only a "cheap games" specialty, as these can be found in the more defined works - games considered good, or classic, as well.