Mario Maker 2 world builder looks incredible. This is all I ever wanted from these games and I was so sure nintendo didn't care about it at all, so that makes me even more happy about it. Minor nitpicks aside, 8 full worlds with their own themes and so much customization is more full featured than I ever expected. This will be enough for me to play mm2 again for atleast a short while.
I don't think Vinny is trying to defend lazy game design. I think he is trying to encourage Dan to come up with a higher caliber of criticism against the game that is coming from a well informed place. Dan still kind of criticizes games in an unsophisticated way, "look at this part, it's just so bad because look at it!". I think Vinny is just trying to get him to be a bit more reasonable and say that so far the game has been bad and has these flaws. It kind of boils down to a fundamental debate on what Giantbomb should be, a wacky entertainment site that is built on the flamboyant personalities of the reviewers, or subjective but well reasoned critique that do their best to not set the game in an unfair light.
In regards to Ben saying the coins in mario kart are useless. I think he is mistaken that you need 10 to boost max speed, each coin boosts max speed a little bit. So basically coins in mario kart are very important. This proves mario kart > snowboard kids.
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