When I first saw Spore in 06 sometime I thought "OH forget YEAH THIS LOOKS AWESOME".
When I first saw the new 'kiddy look' whenever they did that, I thought "I'll still get it for the creature customization and stuff".
And silly me, I bought it at a store with no return policy. As awesome as the concept is, and as little actual potential as there was for them to really forget it up, they did. It just feels stuffty. Tacky. It got dumbed down way too far, and everything in the game is just so simplistic and repetitive that it's just boring as stuff. And it's not challenging! I first played in a net cafe and got to the space stage in less than four hours. And then when I played it at home, I couldn't even stand it for that long. Just got so boring after the tribal phase, the gameplay just becomes literally point and click with no actual thought involved. And you can choose to take the peaceful path, except it's loving identical. Your projectiles just look like sound instead of missiles, but the effect is exactly the same! Your choices don't matter. The effort you put into evolving your creature doesn't matter. At the end of the game you will have the exact same as someone who makes snake monsters and thinks they're funny.
And that, ladies and gentlemen, is the bitter moment of the morning. Now I'm off to take a massive stuff somewhere else
SPORE + ZYNGA + BLUEBALLS IN MY HEAD ALL AT ONCE FFFFUUUUUU