Kerotan said:
curl-6 said:
The idea that upbeat and colourful games are for kids and only dark gritty stuff is for adults is a very shallow and oversimplified notion.
C S Lewis summed it up nicely: “Critics who treat 'adult' as a term of approval, instead of as a merely descriptive term, cannot be adult themselves. To be concerned about being grown up, to admire the grown up because it is grown up, to blush at the suspicion of being childish; these things are the marks of childhood and adolescence. And in childhood and adolescence they are, in moderation, healthy symptoms. Young things ought to want to grow. But to carry on into middle life or even into early manhood this concern about being adult is a mark of really arrested development. When I was ten, I read fairy tales in secret and would have been ashamed if I had been found doing so. Now that I am fifty I read them openly. When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up.”
|
i mean games that parents might not let their kids play until their older. not an issue with nintendo. very rarely does a nintendo game have drugs, bad language, gore, killing, sex, horror etc. they mostly go for the kid firendly , cartooney vibe.
|
True, but what I'm saying is that kid friendly and kid focussed are not the same thing. Mario and Splatoon may be accessible to kids due to their lack of sex/violence/coarse language/etc, but they're just as accessible to adults. Nintendo knew when they made these games that a massive portion of their player base are the 30-somethings who grew up on the NES, SNES, and N64, so they're made with adults in mind as well as kids. Nintendo's games are designed to be enjoyable whether you're 9 or 39, and no more one than the other.
