Garcian Smith on 18 October 2008
| Torillian said: So then do you think that the only people that should buy the game are those who are musicians? Because if I had to guess, at least some of the people that end up buying it won't happen to be musicians, and then wouldn't they represent the people that should read IGN's review? If Nintendo made a game only fun to Musical theory majors then yay for them, that's their prerogative, but I see no issue with having non musicians rating it unless the box warns people that unless they are musicians they should not buy the game. |
Buying != reviewing. You can buy, read, and even enjoy, say, Joyce's Finnegan's Wake, but if you had someone who's not well-versed in post-modern literary analysis review it, how valuable do you think their review would be?
"'Casual games' are something the 'Game Industry' invented to explain away the Wii success instead of actually listening or looking at what Nintendo did. There is no 'casual strategy' from Nintendo. 'Accessible strategy', yes, but ‘casual gamers’ is just the 'Game Industry''s polite way of saying what they feel: 'retarded gamers'."
-Sean Malstrom
