ITT: IGN cries some more

[jefforange89]

http://wii.ign.com/articles/106/1061550p1.html

I'm not gonna quote the whole article, you can follow the link and read it for yourself, but here are a few gems:

"By now 2009 has been put on the shelf and attentions have turned to 2010. But there is a lingering injustice I am having trouble letting go of. When it comes to the question of what was last year's best platformer, gamers seem to have settled on New Super Mario Bros. Wii, a title I find to be derivative and dull. It's the perfect example of how lazy Nintendo has become: just take a four-year old DS game and create new levels for the Wii, add the multiplayer technology of 1990, and call it a day. Despite the lack of effort on Nintendo's part, the game received great reviews, sold millions of copies, and won Platformer Game of the Year awards."

"Four-player local co-op? Big deal, the NES could do that with the Four Score peripheral released in 1990." (and yet so many PS360 games omit this, olololol)

"IGN has already written about how lazy Nintendo has become, which is a fairly recent development. The reason a lackluster game like New Super Mario Bros. Wii still gets a pass from gamers is because for many, many years Nintendo made the absolute best games around. There were first-party Nintendo games and then there was everything else. The arrival of a new Mario, Zelda, or Metroid title was a monumental occasion that often revolutionized the entire industry. Compare that to the Nintendo of today, a company that has been phoning it in ever since it realized it doesn't have to make the best games – it only has to make the cheapest, simplest ones. The "expanded audience" that has made the Wii so successful doesn't care about what made Mario 64, The Ocarina of Time, and, more recently, Metroid Prime incredible. They're perfectly content just waving their arms around, so why should Nintendo provide anything more? I'd like to think Nintendo is selling people short. My five-year old nephew has a Wii now and I know he'd be psyched if we could play New Super Mario Bros. together even though he lives in Kansas and I'm in San Francisco.

So if you haven't figured it out by now, I think New Super Mario Bros. Wii is a half-assed effort from a company that previously set a standard of excellence. Mario Galaxy was pretty amazing, right? That's the level of quality we should be demanding from Nintendo. New Super Mario is a harmless little game that reminds people of simpler times and is definitely fun, but it is not the best platformer of the year. That honor belongs to 'Splosion Man. The lumbering colossus is letting sharper, scrappier little studios make the great games – Nintendo is just coasting on fumes."

yaaaaaaaaaaawn