Wednesday, October 14th, 2009
Originally posted on 1UP
If I were foolish enough to open this review with a reference to an impossibly endless debate between strongly passionate sides that could completely derail whatever I had to say about the game itself, I’d probably do it like this: Spore Hero is a pretty good argument in support of Intelligent Design. Well, at least in terms of game design, because if going from Spore to Spore Hero was entirely a process of evolution, it was one that went horribly, horribly backwards. Unlike the universe-spanning PC simulation it’s spun off from, Spore Hero is a disappointingly generic third-person platformer with some very light “Metroidvania” influences. You start the game with a barely evolved creature that crash lands on an unfamiliar planet, and you then explore the different locations, help out the inhabitants in different ways to earn new creature parts, and evolve/unlock more complex — and exploration-opening — abilities.
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