Monday, December 20, 2010

Eh, who turns to Entertainment Weekly for game reviews anyway?

In case you haven't heard already, the fine folks at Entertainment Weekly recently turned a critical eye toward the games that were released in 2010--and ended up calling Kirby's Epic Yarn the year's biggest clunker.

Specifically, the magazine's Jeff Jensen complained that "there's a fine line between cute and grating, delightfully busy and irritatingly overwhelming--and for me, this hyperactively adorable side-scrolling puzzler crosses it."


     How can a game that has players unravel an octopus' knit cap be called the worst of the year?

Interestingly, EW gave the game a B+ shortly after its release and wrote that it is "likely the most adorable game ever. Yes, it's kinda easy, but you'll never stop smiling."

(Via destructoid.com)

2 comments:

  1. It sounds like they were just trying to stir up crap in an effort to try to make people care about what they have to say. Didn't work.

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  2. Yeah, I was thinking something similar, Justin. I'm guessing the writer desperately wants some "street cred" among hardcore gamers. Lame.

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