Email: Oh, I get it now

I was reading through your “I Just Beat Super Mario 3D Land” E-Mail (I wish more game journalists would point out the stuff that guy pointed out, by the way). Mario is known for jumping, so I was astounded to learn that the triple jump was gone, the long jump was nerfed, and also needing to charge the backflip (from another source). Half the fun of 3D Mario games was pulling off crazy game-breaking acrobatic feats to find shortcuts through the levels. My reaction “Wtf? Why would they do this?”

Then I read “Skyward Sword Makes Me Hate Mazes.” Oh, I get it now. They don’t want me to develop skills to break the game they worked so hard on, they just want me to jump through the hoops they’ve carefully constructed in the way they specify.

I’m not going to say I’m never going to buy and play this game, because I’m certain I will at some point. However, now that I know these extra details, it’s been taken off my list as a must-buy game for whenever I buy a 3DS, and is instead a game I plan to buy during a slow release year if I have some extra money kicking around.

Yes, I enjoy it greatly when emailers give me their impressions of these games (as I’m not buying them).

The reason for these great emails was because of the lack of a comment system. Newspapers and magazines used to have a ‘letters to the editor’ type of thing. Interesting letters were published. Uninteresting ones were not. I try to adopt the same thing with emails. However, I don’t have enough time to put up all the emails I’d like to. “Isn’t is just copy and paste?” No, there is a significant amount of formatting that needs to be done. Those emails came from people who have been at this site for quite a while. One thing I have to watch out for is people who try to push some view (they may or may not be working at a marketing company). Other times, some people try too hard and send a five page essay complete with pictures (which would take forever to transfer into the blog format).

With the Internet style of open comments, quality is very scarce. No one is going to bother writing anything decent if it gets lost in a sea of junk. So a big thankss to the emailers over these years for providing quality emails.