...what...

This should enlighten you, Duchess.

The Duchess Approves of this.

It was a very silly review.

I seriously think IGN makes sure their authors are drunk before writing reviews. That, or they really have no idea what they're talking about and make up cons to seem credible. 

The amount of hate that review is getting is staggering.

Part of me wants to laugh because what game did you think you where reviewing.

And the other part of me feels kinda bad for the reviewer.

The water really was always kind of annoying though...

The water really was always kind of annoying though...

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oh my gosh this too much water review is a thing?

what

I kinda thought it was a joke...

I think that review seemed a bit fair, to be honest. Maybe not the score (the score seems a bit dumb and arbitrary, and doesn't seem to match the body of the review), but the actual content, because the review was generally very fair, but when water is not just a backdrop but an integral game mechanic in both battle and the overworld, too much of it CAN get a bit annoying.

Having played Pokémon games in the past, I know full well what it's like to get tired of facing the same Pokémon in the same environments with the same moves. And for people who have gotten used to the more recent game regions which tried to balance and vary things better, I can see how it might be frustrating to go back to a game region that predated that kind of balancing.

It's the same way people got a bit sick of single-biome story years in the later years of BIONICLE. It's true, it usually made sense for the settings of those particular story years! But "making sense" doesn't mean it's enjoyable for people who have come to expect more variety.

10/10, expected, hoped, delivered.

Also, OR/AS(And for that matter, everything since B/W2) has this awesome 'auto-repel' feature, where it asks you if you wanna reuse one after you use one once, when the old one runs out.

So, the water complaint is slightly minimized, especially with the new gridless surfing. =P

Also, it wasn't really an integral game mechanic in battle, it just showed which was likely. And Electric types reign supreme there, forever and for always. =P

 

The water really was always kind of annoying though...

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Thank you for that wonderful morning chuckle I got when I first read this yesterday.

I guess I do prefer Ruby for a reason heh.

I really do agree with that one point though. I never much cared for it.