What is the worst game so far this gen?
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Attention - Anyone listing a game other than Wiffle Ball (DS)
STOP IT
There has been no worse game this generation - no, Haze, Hour of Victory, Sonic the Hedgehog, Phantasy Star Universe - they're all better than Wiffle Ball Advance on the DS. Let's go down the list:
1. Name
Wiffle Ball on the DS.... what the hell were they thinking? Why not just call a game "Baseball" or "Soccer" - this is something you did in the NES days. They get -10 points for sheer stupidity here. During the dev process it was called "Wiffle Ball Advance" - way to go geniuses, make a Wiffle Ball game on the DS and call it "Advance".
2. Graphics
What... the hell... were they thinking?
Everything in the game looks like it was done in an hour in Photoshop, and it was all pre-rendered. That means, you guessed it, regardless of what you do you see the same crappy animations over, and over, and over again. Just for that, -30 points.
Hey, at least you get to play as superstars like "Adam" - the 16 year old "not a star" of his neighborhood Wiffle Ball team. There are star Wiffle Ball players? Good to know...
3. Gameplay
I guess if you want to capture the "fun and spirt" of Wiffle Ball (and really... who doesn't?) you might give it a try. You control both the batter and pitcher at the same time, with the same button - forget about "using the DS" to its finest, or even having AI - nope, you hold and release the A button to play the game. There's no real running or fielding - you swing blindly at pitches, control the AI pitch, control the swing, and well "everything". It's an insanely stupid game, whether it's the "two outs per inning" rule (what... on earth?), that you can catch a ball after several bounces and have it still count as an out (what... on earth?) or that a curve ball can go out and then come back in (magic?) - everything that could be wrong has gone wrong.
4. Sound
The sound effects make no sense, and the background music is the same 5-second sound clip played on an endless loop. Guaranteed to make your eardrums bleed, -30 points.
5. Concept
What the hell were they thinking? Who on earth would fund a Wiffle ball game? In fact, when was the last time "wiffle ball" was popular, and why on earth would you simulate a "safe version of baseball". Worried someone might get hurt playing virtual "real" baseball? I give them -80 points just for being so daft.
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There you have it, a total of -200 points, if we start with 100 points, that means the game's penalties take it to -100, or a -10.0 - a perfect failure. The DS gets the first -AAAAe of the generation, the most perfectly terrible game ever created. From concept to execution, nothing about this game is fun, enjoyable, or even playable. It's barely a game at all, rather it's a collection of fail so epic that it deserves the title of "worst game of the generation". It challenges Big Rigs for the title of "worst game ever".
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