Oh I was most certainly not expecting a high budget adventure title.
But what I was expecting is more than just a hogwash of horrendously basic control scheme and unresponsive lock-on battle system, appaling musical score and sound effects, and somewhat semi-original, yet at the same time highly uninteresting, theme and world. I haven't even brought up the ridiculously difficult to use camera control.
When I hear people saying comments like;
I seriously beg these people to get out more into the Game Industry. To consider Cubivore one of their favorite games...? Honestly, Cubivore is hardly even considered a "Sleeper Hit" amongst hardcore gamers (Such as games like ICO, Psychonauts, Beyond Good and Evil, and many more extremely stellar games which had the misfortune of bad marketing). If it's not a Sleeper Hit, and it most certainly was not a Best Seller, what status does that leave it with? Oh yea, thats right... a dust-collector on the verge of disappearing from the industry.
Honestly, I'm not telling people to hate this game. In fact I seriously could not care less if you thought it was a charming little title that brought a semi-dark comedic view on society and whatnot.
But what I will point out through your entire post is that you did not once object to the main point of my entire post; Cubivore is an atrocious suggestion for a Fully Playable character in Super Smash Bros. Brawl. So really, you can keep to your little cult following of this horrendously mediocre and subpar title as long as you dont seem to have any objections to my main claim. If I want my "open-ended and unique" gaming experience, I'll look elsewhere.
Oh, that? Well, there're a million characters that deserve to get in before them, but they sure as hell aren't as bad as Laughing Dog or That One Guy From That Place (Link's Uncle? New Age Retro Hippy?) Unlikely, and maybe slightly undesirable for most, I'll give you. A prejudiced "WORST EV4R," not so much. But it's pretty hard to believe you when you say this was the 'main point' of your post when 80% of it wasn't about how Cubivore isn't a good idea for Brawl; it was about how you thought the game was the 'most horrible in the universe' or some crap like that.
Let's get something out of the way. I'm not going to try and tell you that Cubivore is a fantastic, perfect(!) game, or even as good as ICO or Psychonauts. All the major review sites I've seen gave the game between a 6/10 and a 7/10, which, ratings wise, is 'average,' and/or 'pretty good.' That's about what I'd say the game was as a whole. That doesn't mean it's a 'fantastic sleeper hit,' but it does mean it's not a 'horrendously mediocre and subpar title,' either. One of the best things about Cubivore, and a good reason why it might be one of someone's favorites, is the loads of potent personality it brings along with it.
If anything, Cubivore is a 'sleeper pretty good game.' I would imagine nobody here's under the impression that it will or should go down in the major books of gaming history as some artistic masterpiece. Cubivore isn't a 'sleeper hit,' and it has little in common with any of the games you listed as such. Whereas fantastic titles like ICO, Beyond Good and Evil, and Psychonauts all floundered thanks to failed marketing, there still remains the fact that these games were all highly accessible for the average, casual gamer. You put a controller into Chad McCheesesteak's hands ("My dad owns a dealership, bro, I can get you a sweet deal,") and he'll enjoy any of those previous three titles.
Hand him a GC controller with Cubivore rolling, and it's more than likely he'll just get confused. This doesn't mean there's anything wrong with Chad OR Cubivore. (Well, if Chad is a frat boy like I imagined, there's actually already plenty wrong with him already. But that's for another day.) It just means this is the reason the game is where it is.
Nobody else thought the control scheme was that horrendous. The camera was annoying at times, but most people I know would hardly call it game breaking. You were expecting maybe polished controls that do exactly what you think they should when you come into the game?
The sound was called charming if not slightly annoying by most any review I've read, be it publication or friend. Yes, it was unconventional, but it was still done well, and it was still highly atmospheric. You were...maybe expecting a completely normal game soundtrack?
The atmopshere and setting, all in all, was well put together, convincing and, again, charming, by most people's opinions. It was also, like the rest of the game, a little dark and/or disturbing. If you flinch on reflex whenever something is a little disturbing, then again, this just isn't the game for you. You should probably also count out a number of major artistic works of fiction while you're at it. You were expecting maybe a kids game?
By the way, never meant the game was any sort of 'dark social commentary.' I only meant that it's theme has an air entirely of a somewhat dark-comedy view of the animal kingdom and survival of the fittest as a whole. Neither sugar sweet "circle of life," nor pessimistic, "kingdom of brutality and pointless killing."
All your points against the game, quite frankly, make it sound as if you simply didn't like the theme and artistry in the game and overreacted to every little nitpick you could find. All your little problems are, for most players, really just that; little problems. There's a pretty big difference between a game you don't like and a bad game. Most of the time, these two things come together. But, like right now, not always. Sometimes people don't like perfectly good games.
It would be nice if you could face up to the fact that you just didn't like the game. That, maybe, the enjoyment you: one person out of billions on the planet, derived from it, the joy that you: just as much a pointless worker ant as everyone else here, found in it, has nothing to do with how good the game is as a whole.
Don't try to 'review' games if you can't rightfully be objective about it. And if you don't care what we think about the game, then stop being a first class jerk about it by insulting our intelligence. If you really just want to say 'bad idea for Brawl,' then say it instead of using it as an add on to how much you think the game sucked from the bowels of hell and how uselessly moronic we all are for liking such a game.
If you're going to play games based on what you think they should be and not what they actually are, then please, do look elsewhere. Some of us have enough headaches as is.
Did Cubivore sell wel in Japan?
