Genius Sonority and Nintendo recently released a game in Japan and Europe called 100 Classic Book Collection for the Nintendo DS that offers a hundred different pieces of classic literature for the player's perusal. How have critics reacted to the compilation of works by William Shakespeare, Robert Louis Stevenson, and Charles Dickens (among others) thus far? They're not big fans.
The "game" currently has a Metacritic score of 72. The five reviews thus far posted on the site range from a 90 to a 40. The harshest critic was Eurogamer, who noted that for the twenty pounds (about $28) "you're getting a hundred copyright-free books that are a pain to read and some fairly rubbish electronical features."
The first question that came to mind was, "How the hell does a publication review a compilation of literature like a game?" The real question, though, is "How the hell does Nintendo release a compilation of literature as a game?" It wouldn't be so bad if this were some piece of software bundled with another game or with the console for no additional charge but c'mon, 28 bucks for a bunch of plays and novels you can read on the Internet for free? It explains why anyone would bother reviewing the thing - they want a reason to crap on it.
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Genius Sonority and Nintendo recently released a game in Japan and Europe called 100 Classic Book Collection for the Nintendo DS that offers a hundred different pieces of classic literature for the player's perusal. How have critics reacted to the compilation of works by William Shakespeare, Robert Louis Stevenson, and Charles Dickens (among others) thus far? They're not big fans.
