Hmmm perhaps Lair is a bit like Red Steel in a way(oh god, I’m almost as bad as Julian Eggebrecht) as some people just didn’t get the game. Although I personally loved it. I guess the difference here is that

It still doesn’t excuse him from making some of the other excuses about the title.

The same can be said for Lair but after listening to an interview with the developers on EGM Live I’m not sure I agree. In the interview they talked about how some people had problems with the controls of the game which most reviewers have stated as being one of the big problems with the game. They tested among lots of different people and found that alot of people who were new to games really picked them up well while the more experienced gamers didn’t. They beleived this game down to how traditional gamers play games, thier arms are usually static while they play so a game like Lair challenged the usual conventions of play for these gamers. I think it comes down people relearning how to play games since there are major differences between traditional games and motion controlled games.