Dr. Mario is every bit as addicting as I expected, but I AM SO ANGRY that there is no stat-keeping for local multiplayer. WTF?? Why would they bother to keep stats for Single player and Online Multiplayer but not local? It just makes no sense to me. My wife and I were finally relegated to writing down our records on a sheet of paper. :/
I can only guess that Nintendo was worried that people playing local multi would be more casual than those playing online, and they might be intimidated by seeing how badly they're getting beat, and then they would stop playing video games altogether for the rest of their lives, and go into law just so they could create legislation banning all types of video entertainment, and finally dance on the ashes of the razed video game industry...
Actually, it's probably something more paranoid than that.
Nintendo can be so incredibly arbitrary with what they decide not to include in a game, it almost feels like it's on purpose.
I can only guess that Nintendo was worried that people playing local multi would be more casual than those playing online, and they might be intimidated by seeing how badly they're getting beat, and then they would stop playing video games altogether for the rest of their lives, and go into law just so they could create legislation banning all types of video entertainment, and finally dance on the ashes of the razed video game industry...
Actually, it's probably something more paranoid than that.
Nintendo can be so incredibly arbitrary with what they decide not to include in a game, it almost feels like it's on purpose.