Critics Consensus The Review Detective:Yoshis New Island

Hi! We are Critics Consensus.  We post the regular critics opinion for video games and movies! Today it is the all new Yoshis New Island!

A Nintendo game is getting mixed reviews?! And it's not a Mario Party or Wii Party?! Better call the Nintendo Police BRING BRIIIIING BIING No seriously why is this happening? Let's look into it on a special edition of Critics Consensus called Critics Consensus:The Review Detective. If you had a better name you could tell me!!

Any way Yoshis New Island surprisingly isn't made in house. It's made by some developer called Arzest who has only made 3DS Mii features. Some Employees from Arzest worked on Yoshis Island DS, which is pretty good but the 3DS is more advanced technology and things always change overtime. Also it seems like this game was rushed which feels very rare for a Nintendo game I might add because critics such as Pocket Gamer UK and IGN have complained about the easy difficulty and uninspired gameplay. GameInformer and Edge even gave it some of the lowest scores of the bunch and said the 3D and graphics were shoddy.

Well not every 3DS game can be good right? Hopefully Nintendo doesn't take all the blame on this one.

Overall only get this game if you want to.

Yoshis New Island is rated E.

Critics Consensus:Veronica Mars

Hi! We are Critics Consensus.  We post the regular critics opinion for video games and movies! Today it is the all new Veronica Mars reboot!

Last year all the way back in March, the amazing Kristen Bell wanted a million dollars to reboot Veronica Mars into a movie. If you don't know what that is it's a classic teen murder mystery filled with comedy,suspense, and average teen tropes all sculpted into a 3 season show that was cancelled abruptly. Ever since then fans have been crying to get it back. Let's see if it's the thing that we and them wanted.

Totally. Mostly. At least.  Its got a 62 which is pretty fair and it's gotten 21 positive reviews and 11 mixed reviews. It's got great acting, and  doesn't have the most amazing script but it still has that Veronica Mars charm. It plays like a solid episode of the series as the A.V. Club says and it's probably a good treat for fans unless they spent  too much on that Kickstarter. Except if  they are a Veronica Mars fanatic.

Overall see this movie if you want to.

Veronica Mars is rated PG-13.

Critics Consensus:Need For Speed

Hi! We are Critics Consensus.  We post the regular critics opinion for video games and movies! Today it is the all new Need For Speed movie!

Let's be obvious here. There has never really been any good video games movies. The only halfway decent one was Mortal Kombat and even that has aged pretty badly too. So Dreamworks is rolling out a new Need For Speed movie starring Breaking Bads finest Aaron Paul. Let's see how it is. Obviously not very good if you do the research even before hand. 

We knew that Need for Speed would be formulaic and generic and it really is. Just listen to Washington Post,New York Post, and Rolling Stone. It's only gotten a handful of positive reviews (5) but at least it isn't as bad as House Of The Dead,Alone In The Dark or Max Payne. Ok maybe this movie isn't that bad anymore but its still not great.

Overall only see this movie if you really want to. It's not a cheap Fast And The Furious knockoff but you can do much better than this.

Need For Speed is rated PG-13.