On the (further) decline of the gaming industry

What? Harvest Moon Cute?
How is it possible to
Make it MORE girly??

I get an email this morning with the weekly Nintendo DS news, and one of the featured games is the game above. Seriously. Harvest Moon CUTE – “because girls want farming, too!” WTF does that even MEAN? This is already a game predominantly played by girls – did you feel the need to make it particularly degrading or what?? Christ. Screw the gaming industry right in the face.

On the Decline of the Gaming Industry

Puzzle games - delight!
But these days it seems they're all
just another clone.

Nintendo bugged me with their weekly news letter today, linking to this game. I was at least mildly interested, the puzzle-gaming-whore that I am, until I started looking at screenshots and realized it was just a bottom-up puyo-pop/dr. robotnic's bean machine. Sigh, I say!