![]() ![]() ![]() The GamePad is easily the console’s biggest strength, not its main problem. I just wanted to write in to reply to a few of the points Barry made in his Wii U feature, although Nintendo have made quite a few mistakes with the console I didn’t agree with much of the feature. I heard that sound way too many times from 720°, Super Sprint, and Toobin’, etc. PS: A bit late I know but my favourite sound effect is the ‘Dong!’ you hear when inserting a coin into the old Atari arcade machines. These are minor quibbles though, any game which can make plain coloured rectangles into such varied and interesting characters has got to be worth playing! In fact the whole game overall could do with being just a bit more challenging. The only negatives I would say are that the puzzles are overly simple most of the time, which leads to a slight lack of satisfaction when completing them. I’ve downloaded the soundtrack from his website for £3.99. I found out it’s by a local chap (to me, anyway) called David Housden. It makes you start to wonder do we really need to bother with next gen consoles? The music is amazing too, like an 8-bit Sigur Rós. Although the graphics are extremely minimal, everything is so artistic it just works perfectly. Just finished playing Thomas Was Alone and thoroughly enjoyed it. Budding platformer developers could learn a lot from it. It really had me engrossed! Didn’t think I would be that interested but watched it right to the end and loved it. Now I thought who would take their time to analysis such a topic, but at just under five minutes I thought I’d give it a whirl. Scrolling through the various videos, I found this. With all this talk about Super Mario World coming to the Virtual Console, I decided to take a look on YouTube for some videos to take me back down Nostalgia Avenue. And why is the game itself such an obvious clone of Game Dev Story? GC: Hmm… those comments seem a little too perfect to be real. ![]()
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