![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() You can’t hold it to the same standard as grown-up games!” That argument can sort of seem reasonable at first glance, but it’s not something that makes much sense when you really get down to it.įirst off, we live in an era when it seems like a million new games come out each day and Nintendo alone makes kid-friendly bangers multiple times a year. “But It’s a Kids' Game”Įvery time we give a game a child could theoretically enjoy a harsh review, one type of comment inevitably shows up: “Well, this game is meant for kids, they don’t care if it’s simple/has ugly graphics/controls badly/etc. It’s not unthinkable that with a bit more time (probably a lot more) the fun could have been found here, but what we got instead feels like the bare minimum required to look like it might be alright and get it out the door so that Quest for Balance could live as yet another trap on store shelves, laying in wait for well-meaning parents who don’t know any better. If that’d been paired with a game where the side activities were actually entertaining instead of pointless fetch quests, where switching between your teammates provided interesting bending playstyles instead of different flavors of the same button mashing, and where this legendary story was retold in a way that respected the source material rather than using it to shoehorn in overused and only loosely related minigames, Quest for Balance might’ve actually fulfilled its promise. ![]()
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