Sempuukyaku said:
Here's the problem with that, it's been known now for 6 months that this game is not going to have online multiplayer. So for them to still lament about that fact in the review instead of review the game for how it actually plays is again....lobbyism. They've made no compelling argument that the gameplay stands to benefit from adding online at all, only that the game gets a reduced score because it doesn't have it. Should we ding games like Metroid Prime trilogy because it doesn't have online either?
Ingenious level design, smooth frame rates (which would suffer from online play), and tight controls for a 2D game should be "industry-standard fare". Everything else is extra. When a game gets a hit because of the lack of an "extra" even though the essentials are nailed perfectly...it's lobbyism. Sorry. |
so telling you about it beforehand means they can get away with it?
So can I announce a game, and then say, "hey guys, instead of using an artist, we are using clipart, because it's different, and matches up with the idea that this game is different"? Then, could you honestly say that we made the right decision? To an extent, you can say, "yes, if it matches the gameplay in a strong way". To which I will reply, "online multiplayer suits NSMBWii in a strong way, and it's occlusion takes away from that strength".
Drawing comparison to Metroid Prime is the worst thing you could possibly do, because it illustrates how far you are willing to bend logic in order to satisfy your point. Metroid is not a multiplayer game. In fact, everything about the game is geared towards single-player. You are in space, alone, surrounded by not anything similar to you. Multiplayer doesn't fit the game in any possible way.
