Tiktaalik said:
Just so folks don't label me as Mr. Creepy Fascination With Ziff-Davis, a recent review that I thought was particularly bad was the 1up Too Human
review. If you want to label any piece of critical review as a "fanboy rant" as someone said earlier, label this one that, not Parishes WarioLand Shake review.
the review may not be badly written (actually i find it well versed) but it still remains
wrong. why? because it belittles something which is, if not unique, then at least a fairly-damn-rare experience these days, ergo doing a disservice to the review's public. so what if shake it! compares to warioland 4 (haven't played it, btw)? how does that negate the merits of shake it!
here and now (when did warioland4 come out again)? by mr. Parish's logic all the FPS, racer, or pretty much any other establised series these days should be flunked on sight, for the simple fact that they always come as iterative advancements, sometimes mere facelifts, of the old highs in the series. gran turismo? hah, give me a break - everything past the original is a zero on Parish's scale (and racing fans can go suck a DFP too). metroid? pfff, it's same 'ol same 'ol. those senile FPA fans that celebrate every rare drop of metroid across the decades are confused and can't tell a shooter from an RTS anyway. final fantasy? don't get me started on that one! wario land shake it? a souless warioland 4 with a new layer of paint. and on, and on.
at the end of the day, Parish comes out as a spoiled brat, putting his persional warioland4 expertise before a contemporary gem, something which can be viewed as the ultimate flow of every self-righteous critic, their utter vice, in a way: taking themselves more seriously than the work they give their opinion about.
ps: i don't give two figments about scores.
pps: i'll pick warioland4 these days, just out of curiosity - to see the game which can make shake it!, a marvel of a platformer, look souless. and i'll be expecting nothing less than shock and awe, i'm warning you! or else.
