While many longtime game fans sneer at mobile gaming, I've always tried to keep an open mind about it. Done right, a touch-based game is perfectly valid as a form of interactive entertainment, and while there are plenty of banal and pointless titles clogging up app stores, there remain surprisingly wonderful offerings. 

A game's quality is defined not by its platform, but by how it uses that platform to provide an entertaining experience. With that in mind, I was hoping Borderlands Legends would be one of those enjoyable surprises, and not the limp little spin-off everybody had expected it to be. 

Oh well ... limp it is, then.