The latest review scores from Famitsu have arrived. Oddly enough, God of War: Ascension – a western game – has received its first review in the Japanese magazine.

Here’s the full listing of scores:

God of War: Ascension (PS3) – 9/9/9/9
Crysis 3 (PS3/360) – 9/9/8/9
Super Robot Wars UX (3DS) – 8/9/8/8
Steins;Gate (PSV) – 9/9/8/7
Frontier Gate Boost + (PSP) – 8/8/8/8
Winning Post 7 2013 (PS3) – 8/8/7/7
F1 Race Stars (PS3/360) – 7/8/7/7
Sword Art Online (PSP) – 8/7/7/7
Winning Post 7 2013 (PSP) – 7/7/6/7

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Highest score of the week? Lol. Good for it, though. Hope this bodes well for the western review.

That Sword Art Online score is quite low by Famitsu standards. Wonder what they didn't like about it.

It's a port of a PSP visual novel, which in turn is a port of an Xbox 360 title, I believe.

Sadly, not the saviour the Vita needs.  But won't hurt either.

Not as good as the GoW III score but still really nice. Famitsu really likes FPS games, it seems like.

Not sure if you've seen the trailers, but the game looked like crap. SAO should have been a high speed action RPG like Ys, with skillful dodging and parrying, not a slow menu dig stand around waiting forever for next attack like FF12. Way too much emphasis in the game for the partner system and dating the various characters over fighting too. It's 100% a fanservice game.

Thanks for that.  I guess I just assumed from the COMG hype that it was going to be a well received game.

Which I suppose it will be if it's fanservice, but still.

I was hoping for a perfect score :(

It doesn't matter, because it's gonna be awesome!