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Sunday Comics: Dead Island What could be better than playing Endless Ocean on your Wii at home? Why, playing Endless Ocean on a Wii whilst on a cruise of course! From now until Feb. 29, Nintendo and Norwegian Cruise Line are hosting a sweepstakes wherein three lucky winners will receive a seven day Caribbean cruise. While on the cruise, the winners will be supplied with a Wii and some games to play to pass the time. Interested parties can sign up for the sweepstakes on the official site with winners being announced around March 5th. Complete rules can be found here.
Sounds like a pretty sweet prize, I just hope that whoever wins this thing will actually go out and do some actual snorkeling between bouts of Endless Ocean. Otherwise it would just be kind of sad.
I’m not sure what’s up with the porn terminology, but taking off on the recent talk about diverging groups of connoisseur game reviewers and the hoi polloi, Tale of Tales takes off on a rant about Eurogamer’s review of Endless Ocean. Saying there’s a desperate need for a ‘non-hardcore games press,’ there’s plenty of criticism leveled at the rest of us. I’d agree that game reviewing could be improved in a number of areas, but I think this might be taking things a bit too far:
If you haven’t quite wrapped your noodle around what Arika’s Forever Blue for the Wii is yet, this extended gameplay clip might shed some light. As you can see, it’s all in Japanese, as the Western version (Endless Ocean) won’t be released for months. Despite it’s high Famitsu rating, I have a hard time believing this is going to be a purchase for me personally.
