Entertainment Weekly call Kirbys epic yarn worst game of the year

Publication without credentials to review games gives dumb opinion about game. I mean, I could really care less about the saccharine sweetness of Kirby, but I'm sure it's not the worst game of the year.

Entertainment Weekly is irrelevant.

There are worse games than Kirby's Epic Yarn. Not really fair in that comment.

" @KaosAngel:  Have you finally, completely lost your marbles? You cannot in all seriousness mean the absolute garbage you are writing in this thread? Kirby is not a game because it's easy? What? So unless a game pistol whips you to death like Super Meat Boy, it can't be a game? As for the HD, that has nothing to do with this. The reviewer found the game to be too cute for his taste. And why the comparison to SC2, ME2 etc.? There's a difference between being the worst game of the year, and simply being below the best. Jeff Jensen is free to think it is the worst of 2010, but I doubt it's because of it not being in HD. "

Why do you care what he has ti say about video games anyway?

odd. 
 
i enjoyed watching the game and as i am older i am not going buy it, but if it was around i would gladly run through it. 
  
i've played video games with young kids before and it can get frustrating. 
some games need to be about exploration as well as cause and effect, not lives and re-starting in the same spot over and over.  
 
from what i saw, and read, Kirby seemed to be a step above a lego game.

Deadly Premonition is better then Kirby's Epic Yarn.  You heard it here first.

" @Fallen189 said:

"  Stop thinking your life is a sitcom. "

 I think GT5 is this year's best driving sim... "

" So i checked metacritic and the game has 89/100 in critic reviews. How can any responsible reviewer be so far against EVERYONE else in this case "

Devil's Advocate if you will...
 
I think someone could just as easily construct an argument against Giant Bomb giving a five hour platformer with no additional modes and a challenge level of zero a perfect score because of nostalgia wrapped in amazing graphics.

I think it's a sad review for a reasonable game that has a unique look and was brave enough to try something different with a known franchise.  It may not be a Kirby game in the "classic" sense, but not every release has to be.  What's most upsetting about this EW judgment is while you and I might not use Entertainment Weekly as a source for game reviews there are lots of people who will because they don't follow the industry closely or at all.  The folks who shop for their friends and family members who play games or the ones that play very casually.  A negative comment could hurt sales this holiday and that might dissuade publishers from being more innovative with even their big franchises. 

Hold on playboy does videogame reviews?

Can't see how you can like GT5 when graphics are such a big deal for you.

And the EW-guy is equally retarded.

Update on the story: The guys from EW says he was wrong:
 
 http://www.destructoid.com/jensen-admits-he-was-wrong-about-epic-yarn-190084.phtml

Since when did anybody care about what Entertainment Weekly said?

Mario Lopez can suck a fat one.

That's pushing it a little, the game was based around the design for kids anyway. Personally I think the fact that they were able to create a world of fabric and make the player feel like they can touch said fabric is an achievement  all on it's own.

Epic Yarn isn't even the worst game on its console, not by a long shot. With all of the crap that comes out of the Wii every week, you'd think people would recognize the 32 karat diamonds that come out of (sic) it every once in a while. 

" @The_Patriarch: ...your skills at sarcasm are brilliant.  You must be a charmer with the ladies. "

 I think it funny how people think EW and their critic can't not like a game.    Art and game play are subjective.  To be honest I do not find the hand stitched yarn-look very engaging...just as I find most 'home-spun'  primitive folk art  the WORST sort of art ever made.  

Just not a fan of .... 

" So i checked metacritic and the game has 89/100 in critic reviews. How can any responsible reviewer be so far against EVERYONE else in this case "

"  I think it funny how people think EW and their critic can't not like a game.    Art and game play are subjective.  To be honest I do not find the hand stitched yarn-look very engaging...just as I find most 'home-spun'  primitive folk art  the WORST sort of art ever made.  
"

" I think whenever we disagree with a review we should make a thread about it.   "

entertainment weekly. yeah, those people don't know what they are talking about with video games. it would be like having a person write a review for something they have no idea what is going on.

One man's crap is another one's gold. ^^

ITT: People who have not played Kirby's Epic Yarn.

That's just a personal distaste for the art style disguised as genuine criticism. Bleh.

well, it is heavily  cute, especially if it's either play this game, or plunge the blocked toilet. But that is balanced by the awesome visual and art. And then I may realize 2 things, 1) that the game may not appeal to me but still be legit, and 2) whoever did the graphic work for this has seen god, maybe more than once and maybe more than one god. Purty, purty game. Nice concept of patterns and such, almost mathematical. I would like to see another, say a girlfriend or wife or child enjoy this game, and I would enjoy watching. 
 
Playing it,well.........

I'll no doubt get called a dick head for this, but reading the defence the guy wrote pretty much convinced me that I'd most probably not like the game.
 
"Still, do I seriously think Kirby is the worst game of the year … or do I just strongly dislike it, think its wildly overrated, had some major aesthetic and philosophical objections to it, and hoped to use my “Worst” entry to provoke debate about cutesyness? I’d say more of the latter. So yes, I have a small pang of regret for calling Kirby’s Epic Yarn “the worst game of the year,” but only a small pang, especially since it’s barely a game. But if you asked me for my top-10 list of interactive storybooks for children, it would be pretty close to No. 1. After all: It is really, really cute." 

" I'll no doubt get called a dick head for this, but reading the defence the guy wrote pretty much convinced me that I'd most probably not like the game.
 
"Still, do I seriously think Kirby is the worst game of the year … or do I just strongly dislike it, think its wildly overrated, had some major aesthetic and philosophical objections to it, and hoped to use my “Worst” entry to provoke debate about cutesyness? I’d say more of the latter. So yes, I have a small pang of regret for calling Kirby’s Epic Yarn “the worst game of the year,” but only a small pang, especially since it’s barely a game. But if you asked me for my top-10 list of interactive storybooks for children, it would be pretty close to No. 1. After all: It is really, really cute."  "

I really don't care that he said Epic Yarn was the worst game of the year. Maybe to him, it was. But his justification as to why was weak is what opened himself up to criticism.