Most people I know that first heard about the Wii U didn't care. Everyone I know that's played it has loved it, some enough to buy it. Iwata's right, the appeal's not immediately present, but the players do most greatly appreciate. Word of mouth and actually playing it likely will be their strongest advertising strategy for a while to come.

Minecraft's mentioned as an inspiration/design idea in the description, but not the article. Is that significant, or just an oversight?

@liam82517 @barren167 I was speaking generally, mostly based upon the idea that I don't believe anything that has to be labeled as only available for adults is really anything worth dealing with anyway.

No loss, it's not like there's really anything good made for that age category...

*cue everyone hating me for believing otherwise*

At first I was surprised that so much of the review was taken from Arkham City's original review, but thinking about it, it's surprising that they wrote so much new for what's either a port or a remake (I forgot which). So... Yeah.

I wouldn't expect them to say anything else.

LotR seals it as a purchase from me, just because. The hard part's deciding the platform...

Makes sense to me.

In a few RPGs, especially early in the game, I often worried that I'll find myself trapped someplace with few items and low health, which means being unable to progress past the inevitable boss of the dungeon. This just sounds like constantly having that worry.

A couple of the jokes seem sillier than necessary, I think. Other than that, looking very good now.