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The PC gaming scene is as stale as ever. I thought Mini Ninjas would be nice, but it turns out to be just another Lego-style wannabe with "console disease" and lazy programming.
My main gripe of course is that the game crashes before getting to the main titles. Just to be sure it wasn’t my l33t pirated (and TPTB ripped) version I downloaded the demo from last month. It also crashed to desktop at the exact same point. Error was the familiar "memory could not be read". Windows XP SP3.
But that would have been a pretty short review so I booted up Windows 7, unpacked the game once more, got into the actual game and found a ton of other gripes. The biggest being that the game isn’t particularly fun. Kind of like Lego Star Wars or whatever without the puzzles. Hard to control, clunky, cheap, monotonous and iffy. And with tons of annoying tutorials that clog up the screen and break the momentum. And speaking of controls, I couldn’t use my Logitech Rumblepad 2. This is obviously because "Games for Windows" encourages devs to implement support for the XBOX 360 controller. The one I didn’t buy but kind of wish I had after I realized the shenanigans behind the scenes. Kind of like when you start using your ATI card and realize the Nvidia has actively worked to sabotage games across the board for anyone not using their hardware.
Then the game crashed. But I was able to start up again and continue from the last save point fortunately. Oh and another little detail. I didn’t get any sound in the game. Just in the videos. Couldn’t be the rip so I’m betting this is a bug. Way to go.
