If people haven't figured out IGN is full of a bunch of attention whores jumping up and down flailing their arms for attention, they should by reading these kind of articles. They have clearly defined themselves as siding with the bickering internet community and their 'hardcore' vs Nintendo is killing gaming conspiracies. And their constant scores and jabs at Nintendo's expense are a travesty at the term 'Journalism'.

IGN has always felt that they were an accurate gauge of the publics opinion on gaming. Turns out that they were always just trying to play catch up with the trends of the market, and this gen they chose the wrong backer.

Do be warned that it isn't really for everyone; if you come in expecting a standard music game, you'll leave bitterly disappointed. But if you take it as it is, it's a surprisingly fun and, yes, deep experience. I've had it for two months now, and I'm still stunned at how much care obviously went into this game.

@BTFeather55: Sorry you place such a premium on how things look, rather than how things are.

Life is going to hit you hard soon enough, assuming it hasn't already.

@Undying: Well, that's unfortunate.

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Yeah.

     What kind of a statement is that?  "Oh you like how thing's look more than how they are.  You deserve to have life hit you hard."

Two points. One, it was a direct response to this statement that you just made:

"The longer I am delayed from being able to play with a character that looks pixel for pixel the way Lucy Pinder does in her pics the more not so glorious it becomes imho."

Two, you're putting words in my mouth. Look at what I wrote, and then look at what you wrote that I wrote (...). They're not the same, mate, not the same at all. Yours is vindictive: mine is pitying.

But enough of this; we're drifting off-topic. Make your final rebuttal, and then let's move on.

BTFeather: I am curious, how old are you?

It says how old I am on my profile page. 

Why do Wii fans care so much if IGN or any other magazine cares about Wii Music? IGN is filled with regular people that happen to review games for a living. If they hate Wii Music it's their opinion and they have every right to bad mouth it in the magazine they work for. Just like Wii fans have every right to go online and post or blog about how great the game is. Wii fans remind me of all the Sony fans from the PSX and PS2 generations in that just because their system of choice happens to be selling the most that every website and magazine should give every game on that system amazing reviews and if they don't then they suck and have no credibility.

Two points here as well (seems to be the theme of the day...).

First, as happysqurriel points out, this was hardly an honest review on IGN's part. The reviewer, Matt Casmassina, went into the game wanting to bash it. This isn't some conspiracy theory, mind you: he literally said just that on more than one occasion before he made his review. Honestly thinking a game is bad is fine: not even bothering to play it in-depth before hating it is quite another.

Second, notice that I did not link to the review, but to a year-end blurb about the game in which IGN is being petty enough to say that "we have failed" to prevent any sales for this game, "despite (their) best efforts to warn the world."

That goes beyond mere professional dislike; it's incredibly childish. But it's also really, really funny, which is why I thought I'd share the laughs.

I do work in a High school and one of the problems I have with my students is that they hate to think by themselves. They just read what they want to read or take what TV/rock bands tells them to think and they think that the world turns around themselves. Also most of them, the ones that do some reading, memorize some "clever" and "edgy" words to use on arguments even if they don't apply and don't face the truth: they are ignorants and happy to be ignorants. They don't care as long as they make people angry and even if they do know they are wrong they will stick to their illogical but clever arguments. When you said that you never played the game, says that wii gamers are cult and said that "you don't want to think by yourself" but prefer to read others opinions (in other words, you prefer people to think like you), you just reminded me my students.

Of course, they are 16-18.

      Well as Scatman Crother's character Mr. Bloom says in Speilberg's Twilight Zone:  The Movie, being young at heart is what really matters.