True, difficulty has been decreasing. But where does it stop? I don't want to be treated like I am some grandmother who only picks up the controller at Christmas.
Super Mario 64 definitely had more than a few difficult moments, as did Mario Kart 64. I owned an N64 for that generation, and I don't think Nintendo shied away from difficulty in their games. The more I play games like Wii Play, and Wii Sports, the more I am nervous about what Nintendo will do.
WarioWare is much better, if only for the fact that the game feels like a crazy salvia trip. I feel like the uses of the controller were far more creative too. I would just really prefer to see this casual pandering leave "real" games unmolested.
We had two bags of grass, seventy-five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high-powered blotter acid, a salt shaker half full of cocaine, a whole galaxy of multi-colored uppers, downers, screamers, laughers…Also a quart of tequila, a quart of rum, a case of beer, a pint of raw ether and two dozen amyls. The only thing that really worried me was the ether. There is nothing in the world more helpless and irresponsible and depraved than a man in the depths of an ether binge. –Raoul Duke
It is hard to shed anything but crocodile tears over White House speechwriter Patrick Buchanan's tragic analysis of the Nixon debacle. "It's like Sisyphus," he said. "We rolled the rock all the way up the mountain...and it rolled right back down on us...." Neither Sisyphus nor the commander of the Light Brigade nor Pat Buchanan had the time or any real inclination to question what they were doing...a martyr, to the bitter end, to a "flawed" cause and a narrow, atavistic concept of conservative politics that has done more damage to itself and the country in less than six years than its liberal enemies could have done in two or three decades. -Hunter S. Thompson
