before i say any thing, i brought this game for $10 after the shop could sell it as nobody would want it. My Idea would be that i could get a few easy achievement points, some cheap fun moments and a game which could utilize my 3rd controller. Sadly it does none of these. To some up the entire gameplay i would have to say that it is pure button mashing and nob turning which will leave you with hands with more blisters than skin or joints feeling as though arthritis has hit them. Either way i thought this kind of gameplay would have passed on now, sure the occasional one is fine but serious a whole 38 game of this A and B button tapping is just Bullsh*t. For having other people around it does cater to that but ultimately i think you would find that the games sap the fun away. and my idea of grabbing easy achievements was blown away since it is near impossible to grab a high record on all of the games. At that point i would be reluctant to give this a cool 2.0 however so some reason the makers of this game decided to make this game incredibly gorgeous. After waying out the positives and negatives this game only gets away with 5.0 for having great graphics, ALOT of games to try ( if you bothered after the first few) and for putting in decent amount of variety on the different game modes.
The only way i see fit on you owning this game is you were high on drugs, got it for free, brought it for next to free amount of dollars or were forced to.
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