User blog comment:Sunshineandravioli/Stuff Sunshine Likes, Issue I/@comment-2186558-20120128020259/@comment-2186558-20120128233850

Well, in my opinion, although the whole time limit on the final boss battle in Portal is a nice touch, it doesn't work as well as it did in Majora's Mask- the time limit hardly actually affects the battle, it's so simple and easy that you probably barely notice the time limit in the first place. I do like how it makes you feel slightly rushed, but Zelda executed that idea much better, if you ask me. But yeah, characters really do make or break a game- I mean, look at Final Fantasy (again), the gameplay is pretty much the exact same thing every game, yet the story and characters are so good every time that people keep on buying their games anyway. And an example of a video game with little characters that are all awful is... well, I can't think of any at the moment, but I'm sure that you've played at least one of those games before. And yeah, having a lot of characters isn't always a good thing- take Layton, for example. While a lot of it's characters are amazing, it also has a fair share of ungodly annoying ones thrown into the mix as well- it probably would have been better with a smaller cast.

... Yeah, I have to agree with you about Batman only working because it has awesome villains- but it's still the best DC comic by far (not that it has much competition, the only other comic from DC I like is Watchmen- I like Marvel much more). None of the heroes are ever really that interesting in Batman, the comics tend to focus a lot more on the villains- nothing wrong with that, but it would be nice to see a comic giving more depth to the heroes once in a while. And yeah, Riddler was executed even better in the video games then he was in the comics- one of the reasons I like him a lot (in the comics I think he sorta wanted to get caught, but in the games it shows that, as you said, he just wants to enjoy the pleasure of messing around with everyone's heads).

Ha ha, you should totally do the first time you don't finish a review on time, that would be epic. xD