It comes as no surprise that Microsoft has an overly pretentious family enjoying the Kinect in this trailer. Looking past that, the video does a great job showing off how damn fun this game looks. It also gets me all nostalgic and fuzzy inside seeing Elmo and Cookie Monster beautifully rendered in a vibrantly colorful world.
Double Fine has been more experimental than usual lately, but they always know how to craft games packed with memorable characters and spot-on writing while introducing new and interesting gameplay mechanics with each new title. I look forward to the same amount of quality from Sesame Street: Once Upon a Monster when it launches for the Kinect on October 11th.
I. Still. Have. Yet. To hear why this game is ANY better than all of the other Kinect waggle minigame collections other than "OMG Sesame Street" or "OMG Double Fine" Can we stop acting like this game is going to be any better than the average kinect fare.
I've seen all of the traiers/e3 footage and so far I've seen nothing that some other waggle fest has already done. Like I said, if this same exact game came out, but had an Ubisoft logo on it, or if it had avatars instead of sesame street characters, this game would be written off immediately.
@llort het.
It has more character and style than the average minigame romp, no? If anything, it's going to be funny and have a weirdly intriguing story due to Double Fine's writing. I gues you're probably....pretentious.
Yeah, it might have a good story and stuff, but a good story isn't enough to justify praising a mediocre minigame collection, that's what movies are for. Just because it has personality, doesn't change the fact that it pulls this shit-
It's a game for kids, a game that looks like it will even be fun. If you don't have kids then don't get this game, it's a pretty simple concept, Destructoid.
Its a video game for kids, its not supposed to be complex and deep. Kids love waggle, anything to get their asses of the damn couch is great in my book.
Where's the guns, the nitro boosts and the elaborate yet intuitive complex control scheme?
Where's the grizzled vet soldier? The naive but optimistic rookie? The once powerful wizard, now attracted to the darkness more than the light?
Oh yeah - it's a SESAME STREET game, for CHILDREN, and their PARENTS.
Why is it different to any other family/waggly/jumping game? It's SESAME STREET. "But why it's just waggle with Elmo, Cookie and Grover!" you say.
Sesame Street is just television with Elmo, Cookie and Grover , it's the same experience, but with licensed lovable characters - why not just pop your kids in front of whatever's on TV and say "enjoy this kids, some clever person on Destructoid said that essentially this is the same gameplay experience as watching Sesame Street, so shaddup"
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11:00 PM on 08.12.2011 | 
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also, COOKIE MONSTER IN A FUCKING TIE.
I've seen all of the traiers/e3 footage and so far I've seen nothing that some other waggle fest has already done. Like I said, if this same exact game came out, but had an Ubisoft logo on it, or if it had avatars instead of sesame street characters, this game would be written off immediately.
It has more character and style than the average minigame romp, no? If anything, it's going to be funny and have a weirdly intriguing story due to Double Fine's writing. I gues you're probably....pretentious.
Or, TROLLING FOR RESPONSES.
So I will end this response with this:
:l
Yeah, it might have a good story and stuff, but a good story isn't enough to justify praising a mediocre minigame collection, that's what movies are for. Just because it has personality, doesn't change the fact that it pulls this shit-
Looks like good fun for its target audience, with the usual Muppet charm for the parents, too.
PLUS: Grover in a disco outfit!
Why is he not sitting on the couch?
It's not going to be little kids and obnoxious families playing this game. It's going to be me. Me and a thousand other man-children.
So this is nice :)
Where's the grizzled vet soldier? The naive but optimistic rookie? The once powerful wizard, now attracted to the darkness more than the light?
Oh yeah - it's a SESAME STREET game, for CHILDREN, and their PARENTS.
Why is it different to any other family/waggly/jumping game? It's SESAME STREET. "But why it's just waggle with Elmo, Cookie and Grover!" you say.
Sesame Street is just television with Elmo, Cookie and Grover , it's the same experience, but with licensed lovable characters - why not just pop your kids in front of whatever's on TV and say "enjoy this kids, some clever person on Destructoid said that essentially this is the same gameplay experience as watching Sesame Street, so shaddup"
Sheesh, some people.