if youre not content just building shit, fiddling with musical cannons, or abusing your keflings, then i would advise a pass on WoK

Not good enough.  Goto the "Platinum Games" link and it shows you what it takes to get a platinum in each game.  Just hover over the icons to see the game names.

Just in case you miss it, Lips has 5 owners and I have 74% of total cheevos in it ^^

Too late.  I actually like it  a lot.  They fixed pretty much every complaint I had about the first game.

Frame rate is better, gameplay is more varied, builder keflings take a lot of the reptitive walk back and forth out of the game, no online achievements except one easy one only requiring one friend, bigger build Q's, ability to push buildings around without taking them apart and putting them back together, ability to use emotes to call unemployed keflings, etc...

Overall much better.  Well worth 10 dollars to play around with for a few days and get an easy 200 gamerscore.

My initial impressions of TW2 are pretty brutal really.  Dead Space 2 would be a much, much better game than this.  Maybe it will get better after this ridiculously complicated tutorial section. D pad to draw wep. hold RT then zoom with LT press Y for multi-arrow, select targets with LS and LT again then release RT.  Really?  To shoot a bow?  Voicework is slightly improved but the writing is simplistic to the point of boredom so far.  If you try to explore it puts you back on the path and says naughty naughty!  One of those games where a 10 ft grassy slope or a 3ft rock is insurmountable too.  So sick of that shite.  They've innovated to allow movement during the chat scenes and it's almost impossible to get him to stand still.  Looks like a nasty case of ADHD.  Jerking back and forth and waving his arms around for no apparent reason.  Oh and the item descriptions and button prompts are almost off the screen with no way to adjust them.  Edit: Setting use safe zone in graphics corrects this at least.  My bad.  Still this doesn't deserve a 77 avg. even from just 10 critics?  Really dissappointing after a nicely detailed char. creation screen and decent opening cut-scenes.  Hold off if you were even thinking about this one.  Jmo obviously.

Wow that sounds pretty bad. So glad now i'd decided not to pre-order this even though i had such high hopes. If things do pick up and it does improve i'd quite like to hear about it.

just 1000'd NIER!  speed run done in 6h04m and i wasnt even going that quickly O_o

Anyone else DL'd the Bulletstorm demo?

@MrBubbles, I'm probably buying that used from gamefly for 11 dollars to play it again. I liked it but for some reason I only got like 60 gamerscore in it and didn't get that far.

@Recon, that's a damn shame but while I trust your opinion I'm still anxious to form my own.  Either way its already in the mail.  At least its a rental.  All I keep thinking is... it CAN'T be worst than the first, and graphically it looks really good.  That stay on the path or it puts you back on stuff can F off though.

Berstuck and JPL78:  Yeah my car wouldn't start this morning and it was downhill from there so take me with a grain of salt today.  I had really high expectations.  Maybe when they finally take the training wheels off it'll open up and turn into something decent.  I always worry about people buying stuff on my recommendation and having it suck. No worries about promoting DA2 and ESV though.  There was an obvious fix for the item descriptions not fitting on the screen.  Doh!