7 April 2008, 10:55 PM
Oh yeah, I should've expected you to be that kind of gamer since they're pretty common.
Well, it may seem childish, but that's just Shigeru Miyamoto's style. He's never liked the realistic approach to gaming, he's like a cartoonist in his own way so anything he comes up with will have a very unrealistic, innocent and "childish" feel about it. But then that's what people love about his games and he's very insistent on it.
Back in the days of the Super Nintendo, Rare had released Donkey Kong Country and the critics wanted him to make a game that was equally "realistic" (back then that's how they viewed it)... Miyamoto refused to do this and instead did the exact opposite of what the critics wanted him to do and created Yoshi's Island... a game that is entirely "childish" where the graphics look like they've been drawn on with crayons... and that was one hell of a brilliant game and one of the best Mario games EVER. It certainly shut up the critics XD
That said, I don't think a little kid, unless they're pretty damn clever, could really play a game like Pikmin since they'd find it too hard and get impatient with it too easily. In fact, from my experience, kids seem to hate Pikmin because THEY think it's childish. On the other hand, a lot of adults I know love it because it's creative, challenging and really gets them thinking about how to manage the Pikmin to do all those tasks at the same time.
And yes, Pikmin did very well and people are screaming for Pikmin 3 on Wii.
Well, it may seem childish, but that's just Shigeru Miyamoto's style. He's never liked the realistic approach to gaming, he's like a cartoonist in his own way so anything he comes up with will have a very unrealistic, innocent and "childish" feel about it. But then that's what people love about his games and he's very insistent on it.
Back in the days of the Super Nintendo, Rare had released Donkey Kong Country and the critics wanted him to make a game that was equally "realistic" (back then that's how they viewed it)... Miyamoto refused to do this and instead did the exact opposite of what the critics wanted him to do and created Yoshi's Island... a game that is entirely "childish" where the graphics look like they've been drawn on with crayons... and that was one hell of a brilliant game and one of the best Mario games EVER. It certainly shut up the critics XD
That said, I don't think a little kid, unless they're pretty damn clever, could really play a game like Pikmin since they'd find it too hard and get impatient with it too easily. In fact, from my experience, kids seem to hate Pikmin because THEY think it's childish. On the other hand, a lot of adults I know love it because it's creative, challenging and really gets them thinking about how to manage the Pikmin to do all those tasks at the same time.
And yes, Pikmin did very well and people are screaming for Pikmin 3 on Wii.
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