“#9 & 10… As well as leaving a period out, you misspelled ‘clicked’ as cliked, but who is counting your errors? Well, perhaps the most glaring one should be pointed out since you made such a stink about it… the CORRECT spelling of Santa Claus is WITHOUT the ‘e’.”

Within the context of computers, “cliked” is as valid a spelling as “clicked”. And what I said about the spelling of Claus was, “Really, is it that hard not to put an extra E at the end?” the operative word being “not”.

“I know I should wait for Whiterabbit’s review because I know I can trust what he says to be accurate, but I am going to take a chance on you due to my own mitigating circumstances. If I find out later I have missed out on a decent game because I followed your advice, I will be miffed.”

Your “mitigating circumstances” are a remaining giveaway time of 20 hours? And, in case you didn’t notice, other people said the same things.

“I took offense at your personal attack of the programmers just because they speak a different language than English. I believe that is uncalled for. Laugh at their attempts to translate from their native language into English if you want, but stop the prejudicial bashing of the developers and the political assaults and slams just because they didn’t get perfect English into the game or its description. That is not fair and it is not just. How many languages do you speak and write? Also, the last time I checked, the Internet is not only accessed in the U.S. and North America. It is accessed around the world. Give them a break; at least they are trying.”

If you’re going to sell a game internationally, the least that you can do is hire a decent translator. It’s not a “personal attack” when I happen to mention that they’re Polish.

“Thank you for the technical information on the game play. I have thrown my back out so every second in this chair is painful. I will not bother downloading this game due to your review of the game play. There, do you feel credible yet?”

I was making a joke about how nobody cared about what I had to say until yesterday, when I wrote my review of Bistro Stars.

>Secularsage

Thank you for your advice. I will try to improve my future reviews. Thanks!

tina

PS-Lockett- must say you’re doing a bit better today! I didn’t mind reading yours today. Although if it’s a review, like someone said, personal opinion/feelings could be left out? That’s 1 of 10 reasons I never review, I just “chat”, or “comment”, I guess. lol:)

Lockett — if you want to write reviews, you first need to learn how to write. Your “review” was just a bunch of rambling nonsense that could have been summed up in one paragraph. You also need to learn that there’s a difference between discussing a product’s pros/cons and just stating your own opinions. The former is greatly useful to others. The latter, only slightly.*

I’m no writer by any stretch of the imagination, But man oh man, you nailed this guy good. I couldn’t agree more with your statement.
It was all babble.
I think WR. does a good enough job. I seldom read his entire write up. Not saying he is bad, just super long winded.
So, if I won’t read WR. entire write up, I know I am not going to read another review.
But after your comments, I felt the need to go back and read this review.
Secularsage is correct in his opinion or at least I agree 100% with em.
I also passed by todays offering. Thanks anyhow, GGAOTD. see ya tomorrow.

WR provides information above and beyond the game, which is appreciated — he lets you draw your own conclusions. That’s why so many people cheer him on.

As for “Santa Claus,” it’s a platform jumper than features a scrolling screen and simple “kill and collect” gameplay. What really merits discussion is that this title was clearly not coded very efficiently, since only the menu screen at the beginning runs at full speed. The game requires far more memory than a simple title written with Shockwave should. The game seems like it’s running at about half speed. I also had problems doing basic things like putting in my name due to the game hanging on the entry screen. I was hoping to adjust the frame rate through the “options” screen, but the only options you have are to turn off the sounds and music (yes to both, please).

Since the game is pretty much unplayable on my system, I’m not going to mess around with it. Normally, I can get at least a half hour’s worth of enjoyment out of even the weakest offerings, but this one’s not worth the trouble. Ah, well. Thanks anyhow, GGOTD.

*(Why yes, I am a professional writer who used to write game reviews for a living. Thanks for asking!)

As for the poor spelling in the game, that is completely unacceptable. If you make and market a game or application for English speaking users, make sure you use good English. If the developers are Polish or whatever and can not translate perfectly into English, make the game for Polish speaking users. Nothing wrong with that. We ARE a global community but if you can not use a language correctly, do not even attempt to put out a game in that language. You lose credibility instantly.