Little King's Story gets 9.1 from IGN!

[Kenryoku_Maxis]

ameratsu said:

Hephaestos said:
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8.5 Graphics
Excellent artistic direction combined with clever use of the Wii's modest graphical prowess. The environment lacks technical details, but the clever design work makes up for this.
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FU IGN, can't even write a Wii review without spitting at it in some way. if a game has perfect graphics for a Wii game, give it a 9.5 or 10 don't say the graphics are crap cause of the console being less than the HDs... I didn't see them comparing PS2 games to PC games graphics last gen... that or compare everything to real life and give everything a 0 (besides cell shading that does do a good job at imitating real life drawings)

 

More like compared to the best looking games on the Wii, it's an 8.5/10. 8.5 is a very good score regardless. IGN gave a Wii exclusive a very glowing review, and you have someone in here screaming bias anyway. Go figure.

 

No, he has a point.  I'm not going to say Little Kings Story has comparable graphics to Mario Galaxy or Brawl.  That's just ignorance.  However, IGN consistantly downgrades Wii and DS games in the graphics and 'presentation' departments with a bias towards the 'big boys' (aka, the 360 and PS3).  In this way, the majority of their reviews are already bias against the Wii.  Because if you're reviewing a game to be 'less' than something else, then the majority of the games are going to come out as 7.5-8.9 scores.  As they have.  Each systems games should be reviewed based on the games on only its systems.  But they don't do that.

But there's many other problems with their reviews, including their constant flip-flopping on 'not enough innovation' to 'too MUCH innovation' based on their gripe for that game.  And of course, the seemingly fickle difference in enjoyment each reviewer gets out of a game or genre and the rise or fall in scores each game gets as a result.