Mark

Getting lost in Pokémon Mansion on Cinnibar Island makes me feel as annoyed as when I was 10.

"And to the Nintendo executives who killed a sequel to Link's Crossbow Training, we'd like to personally thank you."

I'm going to overreact to this simple well meant statement and take it out of proportion, but a sentence like this is really telling, and so infinitely annoying. Thank Nintendo for what? Another iteration of the Zelda 3D series as opposed to a more interesting spin on the actual alternative potential of the Wii Remote peripherals?

I haven't actually played Crossbow Training because the lack of general support for some of the Wii peripherals have turned me away from the ones I'm less inherently interested in - I know that my looking over them is basically encouraging their premature demise, but I don't see my individual purchase making any large influence - but had a second and more expansive CT come out along with a slew of other games supporting things like the gun shell and wheel, I'd be more inclined to buy them. Yes, games like these are clumsy and pale in comparison even to mediocre franchise iterations of the same thing for the tenth time, but don't forget those games weren't without their flaws at the start and a myriad of them have aged horribly. This is a direct and obvious example where consumer purchases have encouraged another standard game sequel rather than a genuine experimentation, and the sentiment that caused it is simultaneously smug in a misplaced manner and horribly oblivious to the consequences of its narrow train of thought.

Again, I'm intentionally overreacting (not to 'troll', just to illustrate my point better - your local newspaper's editorial pages are full of this manner of expression) and as much as I hated Twilight Princess and lament the lack of interest in games like Crossbow Training, I'm essentially walking in lockstep with the rest of us. I just wished there'd be more realization within the hivemind what exactly this train of thought is reinforcing and discouraging when a company decides it's time to put out a new game.

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