This is pure spin at its finest. You're essentially saying Nintendo sends games that aren't "mainline" out to die as shovelware and it doesn't care about the quality, time and budget of these games and the reputation of having its name attached to them.

So basically, what you're saying is that... for tentpole, flagship games, Nintendo goes ball to the wall and makes sure to deliver a masterpiece that consumers and reviewers are sure to love... nah, that's just crazy talk. Nintendo publishes piles of shit and pays off unofficial sites with "Nintendo" in the name for great review scores, because that's a much better idea than putting out great games that can speak for themselves.

By your logic, MK8D, Mario + Rabbids and Ultra Sun and Moon should be considered spinoff games as well. So in actuality, the only games that NintendoLife have awarded perfect scores are Breath of the Wild, Splatoon 2, Samus Returns, Odyssey and Axiom Verge, the last of which is a third party game. Keeping in mind that a perfect score does not suggest that the reviewer is at all saying the game is perfect; that is a killer lineup of games that you'd be hard pressed to find five equivalents on another console released in the same period.

Oh, and I just took a look at your profile. This is all about bias, right? Well let's see:

Currently playing: Yakuza 2 (PS2) as of Oct. 24, 2017

Favorite games: 11 PS3 games

I get the sneaking suspicion that you haven't played a single one of the games awarded 10/10 by NL. Sorry RJTM1991, but I really don't think you have a right to call someone out on bias.

Nintendo Life is NINTENDO. 

Or it seems like that, based on their ratings.

'Cause the guy with the Paper Mario avatar and page full of Wii games totally isn't biased, right?

I agreed with another user earlier that reviews from Playstation and Xbox sites shouldn't be counted either, so I'm certainly not biased, I'm just not a fan of fansites that do nothing but pad review scores.

Also, I can't have an opinion on Nintendo games because I have a Playstation? That's just stupid.

And yes, again, mainline Nintendo games are different than spinoffs. For example, you can't compare Animal Crossing: New Leaf to Amiibo Festival, or Mario Strikers to Odyssey. No need to turn this into something that it isn't.

When the guy with the Paper Mario avatar and page full of Wii games showed you proof of how the site in question is unbiased in its reviews, he sounds a lot less biased than the guy who reads one article headline and comes up with a half-assed hot take on the spot.

And you can have an opinion on games you most likely have never played all you want. Your opinions become worthless when you haven't played said games though.

It doesn't matter if mainline games are different from spinoffs. Nintendo still publishes them, advertises them, tries to sell them and wants them to review well. What's just stupid is your suggestion that they are somehow irrelevant.

Also, the same people that run NintendoLife run this site:

http://www.pushsquare.com/

With some of the same staff members from NL. Does this mean we shouldn't trust them for game reviews on Nintendo OR Sony consoles? They must be raking in hella cash from all that moneyhatting.

Yeah, there's no way a game should get a perfect score when it's basically just a port with some added stuff. No matter how good a game is, if it launches twice, it should be docked due to lack of innovation.

Been playing it 15hrs so far.

The story is weaker due to some of the added content and story that came with the content. And the RotoDex has somehow managed to be made more annoying than Sun/Moon. But other than that the game is much better.

And for those saying the same is the exact same, they're full of shit. It is not the same whatsoever. That being said it is still very familiar. And things run a lot quicker since things have been streamlined -but like I said before, the streamlining definitely makes the story weaker

Unfortunately, no, there is no National Dex. This is a glaring issue in this Gen and I hope it remains in this Gen only because it's absolutely lazy not to have it in. 

The game itself, for me is a 7/10 if you already played S/M since the game is still very familiar.

It's a 8.5/10 if you never played S/M prior

And overall I'd say it's a solid 7/10 as a Pokemon game. Its lack of a National Dex, still having lag (better than in X/Y and S/M though), and annoyingly long tutorial (basically the first island) hurts it. 

Well, no, you listed a bunch of terrible cash-ins and tried to push that as proof. You can say whatever you want, it's completely different.

"And you can have an opinion on games you most likely have never played all you want. Your opinions become worthless when you haven't played said games though."

Who said I haven't played them?

The site's called NintendoLife, it's run by hardcore Nintendo fans who owe their current jobs to Nintendo, and I'm guessing that they'll get review copies and other things sent to them too, but they're totally not biased, right?

You're just blindly defending a fansite because you're a fan, I think it's pretty pointless to continue this.

Pokemon Bank (which got updated recently and now works with USUM) is pretty much the National Dex now. Can someone explain to me the big deal about missing an in-game National Dex, outside of not being able to read dex entries? Not saying that it shouldn't be present; I just want to make sure I'm not missing something crucial.

I  just beat the first Island Kahuna, and I'm enjoying the main game a lot more than I thought I would. I skipped S/M and spent a year hearing about the silly story, nonstop cutscenes and Hau, so now that I'm actually playing it, I find that the negative hype isn't nearly as bad. Granted, I'm sure some of this was addressed with Ultra.