If “being forced to strategize” is a turn-off, then maybe this genre is just not for you. And that’s fine, honestly. But acting like that’s somehow a failure of the game is missing the point entirely.

Same reason Taco Bell has a menu despite every meal being the same 4-5 ingredients combined slightly differently.  

“Scalpers/Resellers are adding value by setting prices that reduce demand.”

For a devil’s advocate you make somewhat of a fair point. The existence of the scalpers effectively proves that the consoles are currently under-priced and the theoretically correct solution in a perfect market would be for the price at normal stores to fluctuate fluidly to accurately reflect supply and demand.

With…

The only way this would add value is if the demand reduction (if there is even one) was enough to cause prices to drop. As it is, they are injecting themselves into the workflow and diverting the supply at an inflated cost. They are reducing supply by taking from the $600 price flow and pricing it in the 1000s. I…

Well, considering motion sickness bracelets are absolute nonsense pseudoscience garbage, I can see why they don’t help.

And then you have to hope he mails you the milk soon.

Right.

Beyond that they directly hurt the companies producing the consoles because the console is designed to be sold at a loss and make up the money in software and peripheral sales. Thousands of units sitting in various garages of the Jim Westrich-s of the world are selling zero units of software and peripherals, while…

Exactly!  Tesco isn’t standing between me and the farmer, because I will never go get milk from the farmer... and the farmer will never deliver it to me directly.  Now, if I try to buy milk at the grocery store and some dick jumps in front of me at the last second to grab all the milk, and then ask me if I want to pay…

“ They are rent seekers that make the market less efficient.”

That’s the thing people who claim capitalism don’t understand about scalpers.

They’re not capitalists. They’re actively HARMING capitalism.

Each step in the supply chain is supposed to add some sort of value to the product to justify the price increase that each step creates.

Scalpers simply add an extra step,…

Beginning of review reads like you wanting the game to be something else and not judging for what it’s actually trying to accomplish

I’m gonna be one of those people: What in the world are you talking about regarding Mario’s movement? I only have the WiiU version to base this on as of yet, but Mario (and the rest) were just as much a joy to control and run around as any Mario game. Sure, his move-set and everything is slightly different (as it is…

His comment on the camera controls also felt a little off to me. Like, the point of the game was that it was giving us a 2D-esque experience within a 3D world, so it makes perfect sense that we’d be given carefully curated camera angles instead of a free-range camera.

Given the complaints about Mario’s movement, I’m curious: Did you play Super Mario 3D Land on the 3DS?

Yeah I definitely don’t agree with Ian’s take on the game, but I guess it’ll hit everyone a bit different. Playing through the main game with my 6 year old was a blast, I’m excited to play it with her again now that she is older and won’t need to warp as much. 

As someone who found Odyssey generally easy (but still tonnes of fun) bar the very last of the postgame compared to other Mario outings, this mostly tracks for me.

Much of my disappointment with Super Mario 3D World centers on the fact that Mario just doesn’t feel very spry. Even with the Switch version’s increased movement speeds, I never quite feel 100% in control of my characters, which is further compounded by a dearth of movement options (the lack of a triple jump is a…

Bowsers Fury looks neat, but I’m still absolutely down for more Mario of the Clearly Demarcated Levels variety, now and in the future.