| sundin13 said: Pretty sure the majority agrees that there is nothing wrong with the characters in W101...the problem was always that it was a niche game (yes, more niche than Splatoon) because of its strange control scheme, difficulty and small target audience (due to its mature content (or at least too mature for kids) and design to make it similar to 90s cartoons which would appeal to a very specific age group)... I've given my anecdotal evidence of de Blob three times now, which is a better comparison than any game you could come up with due to its similar aesthetic and significantly worse character design. Also, its interesting how you seem to have been able to gauge the "entire market" when I've seen GT, Two Best Friends, IGN, and most of the people in this thread and on VGC saying that they will at least give the game a shot, especially when we find out more information about the single player and additional game modes. You may say that we on the forums and the gaming media don't represent the entire market, but then how exactly are you getting you metrics for the entire market? Finally, let me restate that if this was a Mario game, it would be very restricted in the things it was able to do, and I don't think the squid mechanic (which pretty much makes the game) would be able to work as seamlessly in a mario game... |
The majority didn't buy the W101. De Blob sold less than 1m on a console with a 100m installed base. Your anecdotal evidence supports my argument, not yours. It's up to gaming media to judge quality, not aesthetic, which is what I'm judging. Their reviews of the game won't effect sales of an unmarketable game. I'm not talking about people on forums. I'm talking about the mass market, for the umteenth time. VGChartz is a Nintendo-biased sales site. Most of the people who browse those sites will never even know Splatoon exists, because they'll go onto IGN, scroll down the page, see a thumbnail with Splatoon on it, passively think it looks stupid, keep scrolling, and literally never think about it again.
Paper Mario exists. Mario suits exist. There's literally no restriction to what they could do with a Mario game. Mario got a squid power up. Problem solved.
