Well, let's get back on track, Does anyone plan to get Mario Tennis Open?
It was going to be that, or Rayman Origins (I skipped the home version, since I dislike being tethered to a TV), but the demo of that does not make it look good at all, unfortunately - it has a number of problems. For example, the camera is zoomed out a REALLY long way, which rather detracts from the nice animation since you can barely see it. It appears that this was done due to some vertical areas requiring a bigger viewport, but in spite of this, the level of zoom is still not out far enough! It results in leaps of faith when descending, and you can easily get killed before you've even seen it coming - it ends up looking badly-designed. This was in the first available level in the demo, and it did not inspire me to continue - I deleted it right after that. The sound isn't bad, but some folks have reported delays in the sound effects being played, too (they did seem a bit off to me, as well, but not that badly).
If this had been issued a month or two ago, it's entirely possible that I'd be thinking, "They'll probably realise how broken this is, and fix it before release.", but it's out in about a week, here, so there's clearly no chance of that.
UbiSoft really needs to polish up their porting skills - even Rayman 3D, which can quite fairly be described as a "loveless" port and which has a few minor but obvious niggling bugs (not game-breaking ones like this port of Rayman Origins - just ones that detract from the polish), was ported better than this.
