Recently, a lot of Ubisoft games went on sale on eShop. Including Splinter Cell 3D for the 3DS. Well, I couldn't remember the last time Ubisoft had a 3DS sale so I took advantage of the situation and bought Splinter Cell 3D. The game usually sells for $29.99 and it was now selling for $7.99
Anyway, I've been playing the game for the last two days. And whenever I come across one of those inevitable 'hacking 3D puzzles' the game will crash at random.
You cannot progress in the game without solving those particular puzzles. The only reason that I've been able to progress in the game, is because I'm now saving my game very often. Usually before I have to solve one of these hacking puzzles. Because the moment I try to solve one of them, there is a 80% chance that the game might crash.
And it's incredible annoying. Because in most cases, a save spot won't be nowhere near the immediate area where I'm trying to solve some of those puzzles. So I have to backtrack to a previous save spot to save my game. Sometimes I cannot backtrack, though. Because the game won't allow me to do so. So I have to take my chances and hope the game won't crash. And if it crashes (it usually does), I have to do everything all over again from my last save.
Anyway, at first I was thinking that this is a problem that Ubisoft has to solve. But then I figured, WHY IS NINTENDO SELLING A BROKEN GAME ON ESHOP?
And that's a good question... I mean. guys... you're asking $30 bucks for this game (whenever its not on sale - which is most of the time). Can you please ask Ubisoft to at least patch this game for that asking price?
And if they refuse to do so, can you please post a WARNING on eShop informing consumers that this game WILL CRASH during normal gameplay? I think it is unexcusable that this game can be sold in this condition.
Thank you.