The Medium Review | PassionForGames

David from PassionForGames writes: Far from the Silent Hill spiritual successor games media painted it as pre-release, sparked by Akira Yamaoka’s involvement, The Medium is nonetheless an interesting fork in Bloober Team’s portfolio. It’s their most ambitious project, but ambition doesn’t translate to quality.

[CaptainHenry916]

I would have gave the game a 6.

[Darkwatchman]

Could have been a 6 if it had a consistently memorable soundtrack

[CaptainHenry916]

Fair enough 😂

[NeoGamer232]

Most horror related games get highly mixed reviews. This one is no exception.

[richie007bond]

A WordPress blog, no need to say anymore.

[CaptainObvious878]

I'd trust a wordpress blog before I trust the sjw infested gaming media.

[potatoseal]

There are loads of reviews that give this game a 6 or under.

[Livingthedream]

And the opposite is true as well, I think some people love it and some hate it.

[boing1]

It has a bigger chance of being genuine.

[Destiny1080]

first contender for GOTY

[Kilua]

I doubt it will even get nominated for anything.

[potatoseal]

/s

It won't get nominated for any GOTY ever

[giovonni]

I give it a 7.5 by no means is this game a 4,

[Livingthedream]

An 8.5 for me really solid. The disagrees are from ps fanboys. If it was a ps exclusive they'd be defending it like crazy on this site.

[giovonni]

I believe that. I’m going through my second play through to catch stuff I missed. I’m not worried about the disagrees. This happened with Alan Wake, halo wars, and Quantum Break. Oh, as specially Alan Wake.

[NeoGamer232]

Yup exactly what is happening with Destruction All-Stars right now.

[INXISIV]

Makes sense, gamesradar and pcgames gave it a 50/100 I guess they were been nice.

[alb1899]

Yep, gamespot gave it a 9.

[badz149]

Gamespot loves to be on the opposite of other mainstream reviewers lately. this is not the first one

[alb1899]

Ign gave it 8.

[S2Killinit]

IGN giving it a 8 was just inevitable regardless of what it actually deserves. They are consistently vouching for anything xbox.

[alb1899]

There is always an excuse, whatever.

[giovonni]

Damn the excuses.. ign gave them an eight... “ahh they favor Xbox” gamespot gave it a 9. “ oh Microsoft paid them off” 🙄

[Mr_Luke]

It seems that either you love this game or you hate this game, i've seen completely opposite reviews :/

[S2Killinit]

One group is paid reviews, the other is not. Maybe I’m wrong the guy beliw claims people who played it like it. Idk

[DJStotty]

On the xbox series x, you can look at the gamer reviews of the games, this is currently 4.2 out of 5.

I would believe the actual xbox gamers over any biased media outlet/N4G fanboy.

[S2Killinit]

I wouldnt believe gamers when they are the most biased themselves. Think about it, this game is the very first xbox game that is somewhat exclusive to xbox (if you can call it an exclusive). There is a lot of incentive to upvote it. Also, the voting on an xbox would be biased by design, people dont downvote things on their consoles so people that dont like something will simply not vote while people who either enjoy the game or want to prove something, will upvote. Same goes for other consoles.

[Rocosaurus]

And yet it has a "very positive" rating on steam. Most people who actually played the game like it.

[Furesis]

my dislike for this game is them claiming this to have silent hill like elements and other garbage they said and everyone ate that shit and hyped this way too much. i love silent hill and you could see from a mile away that this was not a silent hill game so for me it was more personal. i'm sure it is a decently made game but naah i don't like it.
And to clarify i have nothing against the devs

[DJStotty]

Did they actually sell it as having "silent hill elements"? All i can recall is they had a former Silent Hill employee working on the game.

Please provide a source with Bloober Team quoting said silent hill elements, and things that they overhyped.

I'll wait here.

[Furesis]

I think you are right. i think it was just the music. it was the media who kept calling it silent hill like and that's how i found it. like i said i have nothing against the devs. i guess i'm to blame myself for thinking in my head such things

they do say in a gameplay video that it is a psychological horror game and the gameplay revolves around two realities which are very silent hill like but i bet many other games have that too https://www.youtube.com/wat...

But in closing. I have nothing against the devs. People claiming in media that it is silent hill like just upsetted me (in articles, influencers and such). i still don't like it lol

and by the hyping things i meant other people not the devs

[DJStotty]

Lol, yeah even i would not compare the game to Silent Hill (please release another).

I personally found the comparisons silly myself that people were doing, the only thing that is close is when the world changes in Silent Hill, but the world does not change in the medium.

2 games miles apart imo.