New Malstrom article - Secret to the “Casual”

[deathcape]

this article was awesome..he really explains everything

:Tutorial= if someone neeads a tutorial to understand the game, the game sucks..
everyone knows to swing the wiimote to use link's sword...people don't know they HAVE to press button '1' to execute action 'b' and press button '4' while executing action 'b' to perform action 'f'

:Cinematics= people want to pull off those cool stunts.. they wanna be there.. look at RE4/Half Life 2 Portal...or short cinematics
if you hav too long cinematics (MGS4) where your character experiences things...it gets damned boring.
why? because I the PLAYER want to do those cool flips and attacks and jumps...not simply see them

:text= talking to someone once for items (Zelda) is fine really...but once you have to endure too much of it (FFIV and up, most RPGs) it gets boring
this is not to say the game fails in general..it fails to be a bestseller..obviously...it will only sell to the targeted market, not to the rest

:fun from minute1=Mario galaxy...I get to jump and perform all regular mario stunts and THEN the SHORT cinematic starts...
MGS2 already pissed me off playing it again...damnit....I don't get to play for 45 minutes

all in all..the fail or 'broken' that malstrom means is obviously: it won't sell, except to the target...wich sucks...since the target is shrinking ^^''