Summary
Don't believe the hype!
The Good
This game is sort of like a cross between a RTS and Pokemon. You're basically a god, and you float around trying to convince people to worship you. It's a novel concept. Black and White certainly gets points for being unlike other games. It's rare that you get something this original.
The Bad
Unfortunately, the big gamble didn't pay off here.
The controls are clumsy. It's impossible to navigate to precise locations quickly. This in itself wouldn't be so bad, except that the game requires precise movements.
The creature hinders rather than helps. It would be nice to have a giant cow helping you do the routine work, but half the time it eats your villagers, and the other half of the time it's throwing them into the ocean. On top of that, some of the levels won't allow you to even use the creature, meaning that you have to do everything yourself.
The idea of this game is somewhat offensive. I don't know, maybe it's just me that feels this way. One of the objectives of this game is to convince these villagers to worship you, and thus add to your "godly influence". It seems to me to be a mechanism of self-gratification for people who don't get enough attention.
The story is uninteresting and uninvolved. It's there merely to give some mediocre reason why you're slapping your giant cow around in a desperate attempt to make it behave.
The Bottom Line
This game is absolute, complete, and utter garbage, and is not even suitable to be a coaster. If you ever see it on your shelf, you should avert your eyes and hope that it dosen't make other games suck by merely being in proximity to them.
