Everyone's complaining about this since... - It's Nintendo - Its a feature aimed at the new audience - Its making games simpler for everybody. (nintendoworldreport.com)
The founder and president of Tokyo - based game studio NanaOn - Sha, and developer of such milestones as PaRappa the Rapper and Vib Ribbon, remarked: «It's my desire to make games simpler, and make them available to new audiences.» (gamehotel.net)
We're big fans of Miles «Tails» Prower here, and while we're in favour of keeping the Sonic games simple and excessive character - free the one big exception is Tails. (gamewatcher.com)