8th May 2003, 9:22 PM
Though pushing connectivity is the only way I can think of for them to justify forcing people to use the link up to unlock stuff in Prime. A linkup like Pokemon Stadium or Animal Crossing is actually FUNCTIONAL (though you SHOULD have been allowed to visit the island in the main game without the advance), because you take data FROM the game with you on the go, alter it, and bring it back to upload back INTO the game. That is the ENTIRE POINT of the linkup. Using it like a frickin' key (or in the case of windwaker, an UNNESECARY second screen, where an overlayed transparent screen could do the same job just as well) is inexcusible.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)