I have lost faith in the crediblity of reviewers

[theRepublic]

Kurakasa said:

I lost my some of my faith in reviewers when a generic platformer like SMG got way too high scores. Some times they are too biased towards nintendo-games.

I don't think that SMG was a generic platformer, and I thought it was a great game.  But I agree that its scores were also inflated.  Reviewers are inflating all the scores of "core" games this generation, and this one certainly qualifies as core.  Anything that is technically good (graphics) also tend to recieve inflated scores.

The nostalgia factor helps Nintendo games as well.  But you have to admit that Nintendo's core fanchises are still some of the best around.