I've posted my reasons for disliking Angry Birds on Kotaku articles in the past before (and it's not just a "waaahhhh I hate it 'cuz it's popular" kind of thing). I summed up my arguments against the series (and its developer) in a Facebook note last year.

At what point will the world finally be tired of this insipid series? Far more creative and entertaining game franchises had a shorter shelf life than this.

If the very last of these skits has the real Prof. X rolling up and catching Mystique in the act of systematically firing all of his best team members, this entire series will be completely redeemed.

The twist is that everyone is forced to constantly think happy thoughts all day long, or Skipper will turn them into chew toys with her mind.

Did you see the Russian dashcam videos of when the meteor exploded in the sky? Not a single one of them had any sort of audible reaction to it, let alone the common sense to stop driving towards it.

There's only one proper answer when your kid asks about Angry Birds.

Cluuuck youuuu!!

Can this be next on the plate for a next-gen revival? Pretty please?

Why, that would be Bloody Roar! A fantastic series that I sorely miss.

Dang double post... Kinja is glitching out like crazy this morning.

So this game, getting mediocre-at-best scores across the spectrum, gets a "Something different... something impressive" tagline on the article blurb. Yet Super Mario 3D World, one of the best games on the system and averaging a 94 on Metacritic, gets the "not a very good Wii U game" tagline?

It allows you play offscreen using the tablet without a TV. That's a pretty significant feature of the Wii U. There are also moments that require you to tap the screen/use the mic, so to say the game "uses none of the touted functions" is simply not true at all.

This makes me really wish for a 3DS GameShark-like device (or Game Genie, to keep it with the SNES era) someday to change the camera viewing angle. Playing through the game like that would be both hilarious and a crazy challenge.

With the Wii (which sold at a lower price than the PS3/360), games were given lower scores in reviews because the motion controls (read: system features) were overused. Now with the Wii U (again: still lower price than the PS4/XBO), games are being marked down for not having enough new controls added in.

But why wouldn't it be? It clearly uses the power of the system to benefit the game, both in the graphics and the controls. Just because it doesn't feature every single gimmick that the system offers like an overdeveloped tech demo doesn't mean the game should be branded as "not a very good Wii U game."

Super Mario 3D World is a terrific video game. It's just not a very good Wii U game.

They're actually called "karakuri ningyou" (からくり人形) or, literally, "trick doll." And get ready to be amazed.

Wait for it.

Hmmm, you can play entire XBox One games remotely from your smartphone? I was unaware there was an app for that.

Oh yeah? Nintendo's console printed money. Just another case of Sony copying their ideas.