Teen anime bullshit

Team Ninja ruined Metroid, and Nintendo let them

The combat isn’t the most painful part of Other M, though; that award goes to the stilted dialogue in its many overlong cutscenes. Instead of the subtle, effective storytelling of Super Metroid (which Other M follows in the Metroid timeline), you’ll get cinematics that look beautiful but often run as long as 15 minutes, exhausting players with repetition of obvious plot points and overwrought dialogue as mature and interesting as a teenager’s diary.

Emphasis mine. Sad. Leads me to ask, is this going to go down as the worst Metroid title of all time?

Bitching and moaning

Smooth Harold knocks one out of the ballpark.

Rather than blame the safe creative bets, bloated budgets, and $10 HD surcharge (yes, many games carry an MSRP of $60 these days) for the decline, developers set their sites on used game sales.

Project Ten Dollar. Bitching about used games. Single use unlock codes. None of this benefits the consumer, and yet the executives tell us this is exactly what they’re meant to do.

The great irony

Scott Pilgrim Versus the World, which is not technically a video game movie, may very well be the best video game movie ever released in a theater.

Since most movies based on games suck, this isn’t saying much, so I’ll add that, by itself, the movie is actually quite good.