I have come to an understanding that most GBA games are half-a$$ed efforts by most developers to simply put out 'decent' titles on the market for the system. I have played thru many GBA games and I can honestly say that even big name companies such as Nintendo, SquareEnix, Konami, etc. don't put most of their capable efforts/resources into making a GBA gem.
Don't get me wrong, there are plenty of good GBA games out there, but it's just that the ones that are good could've been MUCH better. Take Minish Cap for example, they half efforted the main world...it's smaller than the ORIGINAL Zelda for the NES for crying out loud...and not to mention most of the gameplay machanics and puzzles are rehashed from previous Zelda games...heck, even the music could've used more work.
Then you have all the pretty ports...and some not so pretty ones(FF4a anyone?). The only games I could come up with top of my head that feels like it's made with full effort are the Kirby games, the Golden Sun games, and Mega Man Zero games.
The guiltiest party of this is SquareEnix I'd have to say. None...I repeat, NONE of their GBA games were with full efforts. Sword of Mana, the gameplay feels amaturish. FF4a was a sorry excuse of a port of an emulation of a port. FFTA, hahah...
Anyway, I'm done ranting, I'm glad companies are upping their shots on their DS games...
Don't get me wrong, there are plenty of good GBA games out there, but it's just that the ones that are good could've been MUCH better. Take Minish Cap for example, they half efforted the main world...it's smaller than the ORIGINAL Zelda for the NES for crying out loud...and not to mention most of the gameplay machanics and puzzles are rehashed from previous Zelda games...heck, even the music could've used more work.
Then you have all the pretty ports...and some not so pretty ones(FF4a anyone?). The only games I could come up with top of my head that feels like it's made with full effort are the Kirby games, the Golden Sun games, and Mega Man Zero games.
The guiltiest party of this is SquareEnix I'd have to say. None...I repeat, NONE of their GBA games were with full efforts. Sword of Mana, the gameplay feels amaturish. FF4a was a sorry excuse of a port of an emulation of a port. FFTA, hahah...
Anyway, I'm done ranting, I'm glad companies are upping their shots on their DS games...