Well, to give them a little credit those WERE the kind of games people were playing 2 years from then with the Sega CD, CD-i, 3D0, etc. Unfortunately most of them were terrible. But it's interesting to see the reaction to adventure games peppered with FMV when it was the big new thing...
Parasol Stars getting a 4 is just ridiculous, though back in the 90's gamers and publishers in general seemed to want to distance themselves from the "kiddie" type games and move towards more "cool" and "mature" games. Makes sense, but trashing a great game just because of colorful graphics and simple gameplay is a bit shortsighted to say the least.
