Smirf991
Green Sparx
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#59 Posted: 04:13:46 06/06/2011 | Topic Creator
It just hit me, like turning around to stare down the barrel of a shotgun. (exaggeration) I just found another reason to dislike SSA...
I neither love nor hate Spyro, but I do like games.
Originally, I had set pretty high goals for the game, even before it was announced. I lowered them slightly when they announced it as a reboot, only because they started from scratch. (Like windows Vista(we all know the end of that)). After that, when the toys were announced, and their association with the game, I continued to lower the bar, now expecting a pretty good game, but nothing outstanding. A- to A range. The announcement of 32 toys did not really help the game all that much. The announcement of the people involved did not change the level of quality that I was hoping for, even Toys for bob, it just seemed like time for them to make something amazing. So then I sat and waited for a game that I could give a low A to. I blinked, then saw the new videos, and then it hit me. This game, from the beginning was not trying to be Outstanding. It was designed to be somewhat entertaining and mind numbing. Like a beat-em-up, only in "3d", or like Angry Birds mostly addicting, mind numbing and something to waste time. All Acti was trying to do with the game is draw in money, and expand the fan base, while trying to mask it with a "new" way of gaming.
So now I am forced to drop the bar, not lower it. I can no longer say that it deserves at least a mid A, I would like to; but not without feeling like I am overating it. As of now, the highest grade I can give it without that feeling is a low B. (so, on a scale from 1 to 10, a 6.5 to 7.5)
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