Well you're entitled to your opinion. I personally loved Boom Blox, and I don't drink. The graphics are certainly plain, but hardly "ugly as sin". You must care a lot more about graphics than me to come to that. Otherwise you make some valid points, but honestly it sounds like it simply didn't click for you.
"Blowing up buildings with bombs and shooting cows with lasers should be a blast but isn't."
Was for me, wasn't for you. That's fine, but don't go telling everyone it's awful and avoid and declare it a public service. I don't go telling people to never play Mass Effect, Wario Land: Shake It, Echochrome, BioShock, Phantom Hourglass, and a few dozen well liked games just because it didn't click for me.
If you truly want to be a help, then let's flesh out the finer points of these disconnects between us to give people who haven't played a better idea what to expect.
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