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| Dawg wrote: So two reputable sites say it's good, but a "game site" that 99.9% of people never heard of (and hasn't reviewed any games in 2011, let alone just 2 games in 2010), you're basing your decision off of?
Somehow, that seems to make... umm... no sense.
I'm not saying everybody should read that site, just that I do, and when they say something, I'm going to read it and give it pretty heavy weight.
Just for example the major sites all gave Mario Galaxy very high scores. Good ratings, good reviews, slobbering all over it for many paragraphs. So I bought it. I played for four or five hours. It seemed very poorly designed. I spent most of the time just wandering around until I would stumble onto a star or a boss or an exit, or whatever. On top of which jumping on goombas is hard in 3D. I don't know why, I have no problem controlling or navigating in other 3D games. But for some reason to me Mario just belongs in 2D. All of the same problems I had with Sunshine persisted in Galaxy. In fact I found it worse in Galaxy, despite the near universal panning of Sunshine and praise of Galaxy. I really tried to get into it and like it, but couldn't regardless of what "reputable" sites say.
I appreciate depth and reasoning in a review. The IGN review tells me what it's like to watch the game, whereas insomnia.ac says more what it's like to actually play it. Call me crazy, but as cool as it sounds to "trap an enemy in a tire, stab him several times with street signs and then slam him into a wall of spikes," (IGN, page 2), I find it more important to know that "the only skill this colorful display of cruelty requires is being able to press the A button at the right time. Press A to pick up candelabra, press A to cram it into an eye socket. Repeat until you grab the enemy (Protip: A button) and shake the remote to throw him forward into a pit of spikes." Suddenly it kind of sounds like no fun.
So I really respect the opinions and writing on insomnia. It's real criticism, instead of simple description. The big sites have proved multiple times that their positive reviews mean nothing in terms of me actually liking the game. So I don't care what they say on the positive side when making a choice to buy or not.
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