Anti-aye.
Use 'ms'. Honestly, it's not taken or anything, and your abbreviation is too long. Why not tack on 2 more letters and just write 'olympics'?
...Oh wait, microsoft. 'mso'?
Anyways call me Mr. Skeptic, but most of these games like too similar for my liking. How many times can they reinvent a "swing the wiimote back and forth" game? The answer is obviously tons. Tons of times. Under the pretense that each is radically different for the length of time you'll need to spend on the event.
The environment looks drab as well. I understand this is the Olympics, and therefore it's going to be a boring 'oh look I'm in a stadium' atmosphere, but other Mario games have never been dragged down this much by realism. Games like Mario Tennis or Mario Kart still manage to bring some flavor into play instead of "you're on a clay court and you're Mario isn't this fun", or "look you're on a racetrack as Yoshi this is simply amazing". Mso is far too unimaginative for my liking. There's Sonic and there's Mario, but they're more or less cardboard-cutout athletes because you don't see anything you can recognize definitively from either franchise. This is just like if instead of making Mario Strikers, they took FIFA and replaced everyone with Mario characters. Where are the iconic shells, or the universally recognized fire flowers? Games like this are blatant cashins, mso moreso for the Sonic/Mario tie-in.
The gameplay itself doesn't sound very entertaining to me either. Most of the events are short, and rather bland. Running in particular sounds like a chore. I mean, swinging the wiimote up and down is hardly engaging which mso is trying to be. Your character getting winded is just dumb, and it places artificial limitations on what you can do. I can think of no respectable game that intentionally hinders your movement for going too quickly. Shouldn't you getting winded, as these events are supposedly demanding, be what prevents you from a mad hatter dash to the finish? I'm willing to bet they realized how easy it is to get a perfect time and needed some way to balance it out. Really, there's only so fast the sensor bar can track your movements, and getting winded only spaces things out a little, which is why I doubt mso will be competition worthy. I have a billion other complaints about this game, but for the sake of time I'll let these points be digested and addressed before I front more.
