VinLAURiA said:
Ugh, this was his worst review in a long time. I know he's described himself as a "QA man" and that whatever he doesn't mention is alright, but he's also been quick to point out what a game does good if it is indeed good. This was nothing but mindless complaining and sheer misinformation the whole way through.
All I saw here was him bashing minor things, most of which were subjective complaints or could be fixed with a quick trip to the options menu, and not even touching the actual game itself. That's the second half of the review. His first half was the usual baseless bashing of Nintendo despite how much he's tries to claim that no, he totally doesn't hate them for no reason other than to pander to his poser-cynical fanbase.
I love counter hipsters. It is so cute. He doesn't like most nintendo games? Well obviously he hates them and hates them to look cool.
How the hell are you going to objectively complain about a game?
If he indeed liked the game through all the stuff he didn't mention, he certainly didn't give off that impression considering he usually has even a little bit of praise for other games he likes. Plus that "s#$! game for t%&@s" remark isn't very reassuring either.
Yes, if he liked it, which he made pretty clear that he didn't.
If there's one Nintendo game I thought he'd like, it'd be this one, because it's a franchise they haven't touched in years, has plenty of humor and actually-decent voice acting and characterization (such that avoids the problems he said Other M had),
Whether humor, voice acting, or characterization is good is probably the absolute most subjective thing about any story.
legitimately uses 3D as an essential part of the game instead of as a gimmick (you can't complain it looks cluttered when you deliberately refuse to turn 3D on despite any possible benefits), has customization out the yin-yang, and completely reinvents and advances its series...
What it does to the series is irrelevent. There's a thin line between customization and needless clutter.
But no, it's a Nintendo game so all of that is thrown right out the window and then all he does is parrot popular troll complaints the entire review once he finishes his anti-Nintendo bitching
No, stop blaming his review on anti nintendo bias. That is fucking bullshit and the insistence on it just makes you look like a fanboy.
and then has the gall to call this game another rehash, but "a rehash with restraint" because it's been over TWO DECADES since the last one and that Nintendo only revived the franchise because they were scraping the bottom of the barrel and it wasn't because of - oh, I dunno - fan demand or the fact that it was a good fit for the system? I guarantee you that if this were released on any other platform he'd be making love to the goddamn case that it came in.
Because you're hanging out in his brain and could totally tell
I even stomached that travesty of a Madworld review where he makes an absolute tool of himself spending the entire review bitching and moaning about nothing just because it was a Wii game and I don't even like Madworld!
Quite frankly any wii game is inherintly linked to any criticisms about the wii's controls as the wii creates an integral change in any game that uses it (unless the game works with a classic controller and you're using that). If you're going to make all games on your console control in some new and weird way than you're making it so people have to judge all your games with the controller as part of them. If the console makes a game shit than a review of said game should include, if not even focus on, criticisms of the console. I don't care how good your game is if the only way to play it is by sticking a needle up your ass.