9th August 2005, 4:18 PM
That's all good points, but I have to say that even if using a water cannon to hover or boost really high into the air or run around the water is, in the artistic sense, original, in the gameplay sense it's nothing new. The fact that it was water really didn't add anything to it. Boosting into the air has been done, so has turboing around and hovering for small amounts of time at the height of a jump. The only really unique gameplay thing was the actual squirting of the water to wash things. That really wasn't the most fun thing in the world though. It had it's moments though, and it was original, so it was something at least...
"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)