Little Deviants review: Little interest

Most new consoles tend to launch with something designed to showcase the hardware's abilities. Such games are generally designed to wow new adopters with all the snazzy tricks their new toy can do. The best of these combine plenty of graphical bells and whistles with innovative gameplay mechanics that aren't possible elsewhere -- something like, oh, let's say Super Mario 64.

Others in the "launch showcase" genre might leverage the abilities of new hardware, but they do it in a more disconnected way. I'm talking, of course, about the mini-game collection. If you're lucky, you might get a batch of diversions that not only show off a console's capabilities but are also genuinely entertaining. Other times, you get a conglomeration of disparate, perfunctory experiences that never coalesce into a cohesive product.

In other words, sometimes you get Little Deviants.
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