Perhaps, rightly, the cardinal sin of gaming. The issue isn’t that Mega Man 6 is bad…the issue is that it allows itself to be boring. Instead, it’s more like a dull documentary about a subject of no interest to anybody. (We’d have to wait another two games for that.) There’s nothing worth a chuckle, no heady “Did that really just happen?” moments, and no especially interesting creative missteps worth untangling. It’s not just bad by Mega Man standards it’s a fairly lousy experience even removed from comparison with its five far superior predecessors. And, of course, they help us to appreciate the art that does work…the films that surprise, the novels that move, the music that changes who we are, the video games that make the mechanical press of a button feel like an urgent and compelling adventure. Like literal autopsies, dissecting these corpses gives us a better understanding of what happened - or failed to happen - and can help us, as creators ourselves, to avoid similar fates for our works. It’s fun to pull these things apart, but it’s also creatively important to do so. About, as one of rock’s finest musicians once put it, the fine line between stupid and clever. About the missing connections, the faulty components, the same decisions that worked in one place being embarrassing elsewhere. To, yes, laugh at the sillier missteps, but also to think critically about art. I hope it comes, rather, from the active desire to analyze, forensically, what went wrong. While sniping criticism can come from a place of nastiness, I hope mine never does. That’s not a negative impulse, necessarily. Oddly, the more invested you are in producing works you can be proud of, the more interested you are in observing failure. But my creative friends - the ones who write, or paint, or compose, or make films of their own - are the ones that do enjoy it.
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Many of my friends don’t have the interest or patience required to watch a movie they know will be a wreck, and I understand that. I think the appeal of failed art is an instructive one. That, to me, made it worth the investment of my time and attentions. But sometimes I’d find merit where nobody expected it, and I’d get to show that off to the skeptics. To dig through the muck in search of something worth talking about. This is both because they knew I’d find enjoyment with it when most others couldn’t, but also because they could count on me to engage with it respectfully. When a seemingly bad game came along, it was assigned to me almost without fail.
You’ve seen me gush about many of them here, and when I worked for Nintendo Life, I earned a reputation for it. That comes from watching a pile of disparate components continuously fail to connect. That comes from the complete breakdown of what should be an elegant machine. There’s a giddy thrill that comes from watching the wheels fall off. What I’d like to convey by saying this is the fact that I don’t mind turning over some sliver of my life to a piece of art that, by all accounts, doesn’t deserve it.
While I have less patience for them overall, I even like some bad novels. I like terrible movies and television shows and music and video games. Shane on ALF Reviews: Character Spotlight – Willie Tanner.CH on Every Paperback from Hell Ranked from Worst to Best.Shane on ALF Reviews: “ALF’s Special Christmas” (season 2, episode 12).Tim on Announcement: The Lost Worlds of Power, call for submissions!.
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