| Millennium said: If you read the patent, you'll find that you cannot save the progress the game makes for you. "Resume playing" means you go right back to where you were when you left off; the game may have showed you a possible path, but you still have to take it yourself. NSMBWii is not a puzzle game, so you gain no advantage from doing this. |
You haven't met my girlfriend, brother's girlfriend or my mum then (not that I'm singling out female gamers, these are just the first people that come to mind). Even though this isn't a puzzle game, the "obvious" path/sequence isn't always obvious to a casual gamer.
I think this is great for people like my mother, who despite being a gamer for longer than most people on this site have been alive (and probably spends more time per week playing games than a lot of people on this site), she still has major difficulties getting through certain games (especially when the transition to 3D occured).
Now instead of putting the game down and getting back to it in a few weeks in the hope that something clicks the next time she plays, she can try to get through it a couple of times, and if she still can't figure it out, she can see how it is done rather than waiting for my brother or me to end up showing her next time we go to visit.
For those that think this is a terrible idea (even though its optional....) I guess are the same people who don't understand why anyone would use cheats. For some people there just isn't any excitement being stuck for too long or in the case of many, being stuck forever, as it pretty much takes all the fun out of the game.
