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Worth buying? Damn Skippy!

So far I'm about a half an hour into the game and I'm not digging it as much as I expected. From what I've played so far it's just not a very "great" game. Maybe an average game at best. I'm hoping that my frustrations with it go away with time. I completed the first task in the game and changed my little world a bit.

I'm kinda miffed at myself too, I've been so looking forward to playing this game for such a long time and I feel so let down. Does the game get better? What am I missing here?

 Well, without knowingwhat is frustrating you, I will assume its the drawing.  That gets much easier with practice, and eventually you'll be able to draw everything easily.  Well, maybe not everything, as I am only 25 hours in, but up till now I've gotten pretty good at all of them.  Bloom took me a long time to master, as sometimes it would register as a 'sun' drawing (that got REALLY annoying in the mr. orange minigame), but now that I have it's awesome. 

 I will say that the game gets much better the more strokes you know.  Combat gets more in-depth, with multiple ways to fight enemies, and overall it just gets to be more fun.

 That said, all this is obviously my opinion and Your Mileage May Vary, etc. 

What are you having problems with? I was in the same position and I'm loving it 6 hours in.

@Alpha_DK: Alright you're opening a can of worms here and I'm going to piss off some people by saying these things but it keeps bugging me and I guess I have typing diariah tonight ;)

Please don't be offended by what I have to say...

Let's start with the graphics, it has got to have the worst graphics of any Wii game I own. I don't expect HD graphics but I do expect everything to be at least clear and easy to see. The game has a very very soft look to it that hurts my eyes. The textures are subpar, the lines around things are sometimes too big or too small.

Controls: The Paint Brush surprisingly works fine, the attack command (in battle) that's linked to the wiimote (waggle if you want to call it that) similarly to the slash in Twilight Princess is broken for some strange reason. It works fine in open environments to smash pots but doesn't work at all in battle mode.

Story: The story is bad... like... really bad... Why does my character have more then 1 name for instance?

Saving: Unless I'm missing something, you can only save while standing on mirrors? If so... that sucks... I like to be able to save and walk away from a game at any point. The save method seems so ancient.

I am half thru the game now. Its a fantastic game.

I think it's kinda strange that this was described as a 40-hr game when I finished it in under 30. Granted, I missed a glaive somehow, but still.

The only motion I found that didn't work well for me besides the dodge was the figure-eight fire move - if I took it slowly and made a (seemingly) perfect drawing, it wouldn't register. But if I did a quick, half-assed version, it workedevery time. Weird.

Oh, one more thing: What do those "Karmic" items I received do? And what do you get for every stray bead?