Now Playing Dead or Alive 4

I finally picked up DOA4 the other day. I've liked this series since the arcades and actually have an imported copy of the original DOA on my Saturn. This game lives up to my exceptions with only one issue. Man can it be cheap. Team Ninja excels at making games for game journalists. I know there is a gamer out there who just craves challenge but sometimes I have to wonder if it's better to just have something be fun. Don't get me wrong I find DOA4 fun, I just hate having to see my poor character face a beat down of biblical proportions when I am powerless to match or block it. Haven't taken it online yet. I don't need to be beaten and swore at at the same time. Overall it won't make me trade in my copy of DOA2 on my Dreamcast or DOA3 on the original Xbox but this is fun for now.

Broken Wii Tutorials

I really hate the recent trend in forcing players to go through some of the worst implemented in game tutorials I’ve ever played. I’m talking about SSX Blur and Sonic and the Secret Rings. I was able to complete the tutorial in Blur and found after some fumbling around the game is not half bad. Granted I had to forget about playing it like a typical SSX game. I gave up on Sonic, took it out of the Wii, and put it back in its Gamefly envelope all in the space of an hour. All I can say is I am so glad I didn’t run out and buy this like I did with SSX Blur. I understand the need to introduce gamers to the control scheme and how it works but there are better ways to do this. And there are games that do a better job of it.