Yeah, I have to agree that a ton of games which get pretty promising previews just fall to shit in the review afterwards.
Makes you wonder. Are publishers making sure the demo is the BEST part of the game? Probably, but you'd think that someone would still be giving a lot more poor previews.
Here's a question: are the previewers the same people as the reviewers?
Maybe the previewers are happy, optimistic people who like to see through a game's faults while reviewers are bitter, shriveled human husks, eager to inflict pain on any game they can via trashing it in a review.
"I mean, c'mon, Viva Pinata, a game with massive marketing, didn't sell worth a damn to the "sophisticated" 360 audience, despite near-universal praise--is that a sign that 360 owners are a bunch of casual ignoramuses that can't get their heads around a 'gardening' sim? Of course not. So let's please stop trying to micro-analyze one game out of hundreds and using it as the poster child for why good, non-1st party, games can't sell on Wii. (Everyone frequenting this site knows this is nonsense, and yet some of you just can't let it go because it's the only scab you have left to pick at after all your other "Wii will phail1!!1" straw men arguments have been put to the torch.)" - exindguy on Boom Blocks
