Oh I didn't see that coming.

well like Zelda SS at gamespot they seem to be having a hard time with Nintendo games being to hard for them :P

it's idiots like these who makes Nintendo make their games easier!

Check your twilight princess score.

Not to argue someone else's opinions--only they can do that--there is a difference between frustrating and challenging, especially when it comes to game mechanics.  Also, I don't think Dark Souls and Luigi's Mansion are supposed to be played with the same purposes in mind.

I can't speak about the objective parts, but from reading the review, having to redo solved puzzles because you die really does deserve to have points subtracted, if it's true.  I hate when games make you do that.

Yeah, seriously, people are disgusting me. Making personal attacks on a reviewer is immature, rude, and makes any actual points you have to make diminished.

Now, that being said, she didn't say (at least not that I can remember) that the game was challenging. She said that the challenge spiked inconsistently (super easy to hard in a matter of minutes and back down) and that lack of check points can be frustrating. FRUSTRATING, not challenging. I know I hate replaying the same easy parts of something over and over and over again for no reason other than "designers didn't put a check point there."

Extreme case: Let's say there were plenty of really, really easy levels in a platformer. Beating the first, let's say 3 levels took like 5-10 minutes. The next level was difficult (not impossible). Let's say there were no check points at all in this game. Anytime you died in the hard part, you'd have to replay 10 minutes worth, every...single....time. Now, if there were loot to grab or something in those levels that "carries over" then that could be ok, but if you honestly just had to replay those things just to replay them to get to a hard part, that is just bad game design.

Having not played the game, I don't know what I would give it, but I think the review is fine conceptually.

There is a difference between satisfying difficulty and difficulty due to flawed game design, not saying that Lugi's mansion is flawed, just pointing out why one game might get panned for difficulty while another praised.

Perhaps she is also more concerned about difficulty because this game's target audience also includes young kids. Either way if I convince myself to pick up a 3ds xl I will definitely be getting this alongside it.

he/she could have given it a zero.. doesn't change anything.


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I've noticed on a few occassions that Carolyn just goes into spouting facts about a game during parts of her reviews, rather than offering opinions.  It was the same for her reviews of Unit 13 & The 3rd Birthday if I remember correctly.

In a way it's kind of helpful if you're thinking of buying the game, but then she still scores based on opinion.

For a minute I thought you meant Audrey (the IGN reviewer).  I was going to point out that she's probably the most generous reviewer on the whole team!

But then I watched IGN's review and realised you meant Kezza.  Yeah, she tends to be pretty harsh with scores.

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