Well I was pretty shocked at Morgan's obvious bias. I mean seriously if she loves platformers then how can she think Mario is too cartoony? I don't think I've ever heard of or played a photorealistic platformer, unless you'd consider LOZ:TP a platformer it does have some platforming elements but honestly come on its a platformer.

She is sort of right that its all been done before. It is an add on essentially. Their is very little new except maybe the few new power suits.

But what I took from it near the end where Adam Sessler said they gave the game five out of five. That is why I still watch G4. They may have a personally vendetta out for Nintendo and its gamers but they still give those very titles they hate good ratings as they deserve.

Of course I haven't watched X-Play in ages as it has been diluted over the years from a games rating show to previews, hardware reviews. Recently I turned it on and saw a small portion talking about movies.

G4 to me is only good for Reviews on the Run and ElectricPlayground!

whoops, excuse the double post

@ axumblade: Sure she's entitled to her opinion, and I'm also entitled to my opinion. And my opinion is that her opinion is retarded.

Yeah Morgan, God forbid we should have a cartoony game, because we sure don't have enough realistic, gritty looking, dark games...

Uh huh, so are you going to apply that same criticism to:

Killzone

Halo

GTA

MGS

Gears of War

Uncharted

Tomb Raider

Call of Duty

Guitar Hero

Of course you won't. 

Seriously, it's sad how so called "hardcore" gamers  nowadays seem to go on about everything but that actual GAMEPLAY.. blah blah blah HD TV blah blah story blah blah realistic graphics blah blah mature blah blah story...

Bunch of posers...

I laughed out loud when Morgan said she wanted more "adult" themes in a Mario game.

Yeah, and it would even be better if she gave real, NON TROLLING reasons as to why she doesn't like the game. Not just "itz not hardcorrrrrrrez enuff!!"

At least Adam gave legitimate criticisms (camera angles sometimes, and his complaint about the analog stick on the nunchuck). She is not qualified to be working in gaming media if this is how she's going to critique games. That was an A in unprofessionalism and tackiness. 

It's funny how Galaxy 2, for being such a great game, gets so much hate from multiple camps.. On the one end of the spectrum, you got the snobby "hardcore" gamers knocking the game for being too "kidde" or not complex enough or whatever, then on the other end of the spectrum you have the non gamers/old school gamers like Malstrom who knock the game for diverging too much from the classic 2D Mario games or being TOO complex..

No matter what you do with your game you're bound to piss someone off.

Ok, so you basically tell me to respect her opinion, while knocking me for having an opinon on her opinion? I believe it's a free country, and I can voice my opinion just like she can voice hers. It's not like I'm saying "she can't say that!!1" Nor am I hating her for having that opinion.. I'm simply saying her opinion is shallow and stupid..

Knocking Galaxy 2 based on the fact that it's too "cartoony" to me is retarded, because well.. it's a Mario game! What exactly did she expect?

I dunno, to me it seems like she's inventing reasons to hate on Galaxy 2. At least Malstrom had a couple decent arguments against the game. Hers are just shallow crap like "ZMOG kiddie!!1" 

I can actually see why someone would find the game too "cartoony" because personally the design (excluding mechanical level design) and colours are not to my liking either (but they do fit a Mario game and it is a Mario game...)

She never makes it quite clear what cartoony aspect she considers irritating though, because if it's the 2D non-realistic aspect altogether, that'd make liking platformers rather difficult.
Then there is also the crap about how this works for her on the DS but not on a home console and by then it's pretty clear that it's not even the style that bothers her. The same old "want a little more from the graphics"... and no, I don't know what she means by wanting "a little more adult". Oh, maybe the wrinkles on that 3D Mario image.

i agree with axumblade its her opinion and she shouldnt be hated on for it.