Friday, November 28, 2008

O Rly? Ya Rly. No Wai! More Reviews (Nintendo Power)

At E3, the head of Nintendo said that they wanted to move focus away from hardcore gamers, and shift focus to casual gamers. Sigh.... This is evidenced by the fact that one of the biggest things this month is Animal Crossing: City Folk. Animal Crossing is a game that is real life...but with animals. It sounds/looks ridiculously boring to me, but people seem to love the game (fine, I admit it, I'm ridiculously biased.) Also, you can never win, it goes on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on.... People like it because it is (apparently) simple fun, cute, and addictive. The game got a 8.0 (how, I don't know). Now, the other main game this month, is Sonic Unleashed. Unless you've been living under a rock millions of miles away, someplace that no one's heard of, you know who Sonic is. A long time ago, Nintendo created Mario, and Sega wanted a mascot better than Mario, and created Sonic. The old Sonic games were all about speed, and that was basically it. Soon though, Sonic games became about puzzles and platforming, and became glitchy and not so good. Most people hated these, especially original Sonic fans, although I liked them. This new game, Sonic Unleashed, brings back the super-fast Sonic, but also brings the new, combat/platforming-oriented Werehog. The game looks amazing, and hopefully will bring back Sonic. It got a 8.0...should be at least 8.5.... or Animal Crossing's score should be lowered...bleh.

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