Kotaku - Platinum Games' Hideki Kamiya has a new video game out. It's not getting perfect scores or perfect reviews. Yeah, like he cares. Here's one of video game's most expressive game designers brushing off criticism as only he can.
Vice president Hideki Kamiya, director Yosuke Matsumura and producer Yuji Nakao discuss the standalone release.
Adam from NoobFeed says, "The Wonderful 101: Remastered is a creative adventure full of amazing boss fights and dynamic events. The boss fights are thrilling cinematic encounters that test your skills in a multitude of ways and the game constantly changes in such a vibrant way that it's hard to predict what will happen next".
Only PC and PS4 Pro can deliver a sustained 60fps.
I don't usually trust reviews. Usually I wait until I play a game for myself and I wind up checking out what appeals to me (it's why I actually found Duke Nukem Forever enjoyable when most didn't).
It's not like W101 has received poor scores. On Metacritic it has a 79 (last time I checked it) which is hardly bad, and most of the scores have been in the 80-95 range. So if you want to use scores anyway, they're pretty positive either way. I see no reason to make a fuss.
EDIT: Also Kotaku is a POS tabloid "germalism" troll site. I should have figured this was from them.
IGN score: 7.4
That's what happens when you give Keza McDonald an original game to review. She was praising DmC off the ass only after playing that abysmal demo. Not surprised. I'll judge it when I get to play it myself. I still have full trust for Kamiya.
Reviews cant be trusted for some games. Better to just try it yourself all comes down to personal preference.
Lol At what Kamiya said.
"Is that IGN thing your god or something?"
This guy cracks me up.
I'm not even going to read the article because it's from Kotaku and they're likely taking the stance that reviews from sites like them are important. Kotaku can go suck on something and I really wish the lame excuses handed to us about why they are still being prominently featured on this site, despite a vast majority of the userbase voting them down, would just stop and we get rid of Kraptaku once and for all. I encourage everyone to continue downvoting this sh*tty site no matter how little it actually does, and please stop submitting stories from that site and its sister sites like Polygon.
On Topic: Kamiya is absolutely correct, and for a larger reason than he probably addressed. Review scores have been factored into deals made between developers and publishers to the point where review sites and metacritic have actually become powerful entities that can determine what kinds of games are made and what kinds of games are not made. We've already seen stories about contracts that stipulate a certain metacritic score in order for the developers to gain bonuses, or even sometimes full pay, and it's ridiculous.
Reviews are simply meant to be an opinion, not a gauge of total and broad quality. Of course, you can't ignore multiple opinions that say the same thing, but at the end of the day it's up to you to decide how good or bad the game is based on your preferences and experiences.
In my opinion, the numbered/lettered/starred review system needs to die in favour of just a descriptive one containing only opinion and nothing more.