It isn't hard to get a real good idea of a game before it's release these days with all the coverage across all game sites. Or did you not know this Wii Man?
Mark seems to know what makes a great platformer, as implied in this paragraph: "It's all a bit stop and start..." Which is cool. So he criticizes DKTF for not fitting this criteria. Which makes sense. However, then the sub-title of his review Frozen in Time doesn't really make sense,since it's changing the rhythm up from previous DK games and other platformers.
Actually, TBH, the whole "Frozen in Time" subtitle has me utterly confused (for more reasons than one). I mean, it almost seems that Mark was looking for a DK game that was frozen in time, because then it would have had the pacing and rhythm he was looking for.
Am I going anywhere with this or am I striking out big time?
@NTM23 @Rotondi What else could the reason have been? You can't just arbitrarily depreciate a games review score over time (Well, I guess some people might claim that game review scores could change decades later). The reason in WW's case, it was simply a re-release that only focused on the graphics.
I remember Gamespot mentioning that the HD remake of the Wind Waker was dropped 1.3 points from the original for just sort of just being an HD remake, even though the game was absolutely gorgeous and amped up to 60 FPS. Well, Here's the Definitive Tomb Raider, upping the graphics and getting the same score as the original.
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