Okay, here's a place to finally unleash my rant.
I've been getting Nintendo Power ever since I was, like, seven. Looking back, it was maybe just a little infantile, but I have almost every poster from every issue since 103 on my walls. It was that big a deal. Then... came that infamous '05 makeover--and with it, clearly, a rapidly modified staff. So stunned was I at such a crucial part of my existance--then, at least--turning into garbage, and mildy obsessive-compulsive, I labored over a two-page grievance about what the folks at NP had done and fired it off. They either never read it or thought I was insane, because nothing came of it. Now, I'm really only getting it because I just, for some reason, can't bear to stop after nearly a decade of constant subscriptions... and I like the posters (though they print them on the other side with cheaper paper now--go figure).
In a nutshell, what was once an enjoyable and kinda-biased publication is now a shoddy, sloppily made POS that seems legally required to make at least three asinine typographical and/or factual errors per month, and at least one use of the word "badass". Their layout is inconsistant, their computer evidentally only has three fonts, and the whole tone comes across like something your mom would write when she was trying to sound cool. It's sad, really, because this was supposed to be a great new beginning for them, a "maturation", as I think they said at one point. For I while, although I hated it, I thought maybe they'd succeeded with a wider audience, but as I'm rapidly seeing on many a website with the announcement of this story, that's not really the case. Sure, I'm getting a little used to the "New NP" (it's been two years, FYI), but if it does go down... eh.
...Oh, and if they wanted to prove they weren't biased, giving Twilight Princess a 9.5 wasn't the best way to do it. What beats that? When Jesus breaks into the gaming biz? Come to think of it, I don't think they're biased (well... at least not totally biased), I just think everything else on Nintendo systems ususally sucks so much in comparison.
