Buy Your Kids Actual Sandboxes, Not Open World Sandbox Games

Dear SEGA,

How does Pyro Studios go from making PC strategy-games to Grand Theft Auto for 4 year olds? Are they doing penance for some past sin or something? This is the first game they've made for you, did they jump ship from Eidos when it was bought up by Squeenix? They should go back. Maybe they'll get the chance to make Final Fantasy Commandos. Who knows?

Now they're workin on Planet 51. Why? Is this how you get them to show you what they got? Kinda like someone's first day of work at a retailer and they're asked to clean up the toy aisle. That can't be right, though. They've made numerous games over the last decade or so, and they've all been received well enough. That should be all the evidence you need, I would think. I'm no industry insider, so I have no idea.

Since this game is intended for 4-12 year old kids, what's the deal with the GTA style of gameplay? 4 year olds don't need sandbox gameplay, they need actual sandboxes. Way to prep them for the games they'll play when they hit fourteen. What's your next licensed crapware game gonna have? Quick time events where the hero dismembers robots?

Now that I think of it, that's probably already been done in some other shovelware based on some CGI movie. Don't know for sure though, I don't normally pay attention to licensed horsepuckery. Don't let that stop you from making God of Planet 51, though. The mindless hordes love that type of game and will buy it up in droves, and you need all the money you can get. Especially if some of it goes towards making a new Shenmue.

I would probably play your shovelware if it copied Shenmue. Imagine how much better it would have been if the astronaut guy could walk up to anyone and ask for directions to the nearby convenience store? You could even ask people to take you to their leader, since you're the alien on their world. Kids would probably find that dreadfully boring though. So frakkin what? Put it in anyway.

Well, just do what ya gotta do to stay afloat, SEGA. Keep earning them breads and make another Shenmue, please.

Sincerely Yours,
Shenmue Fan.