What is wrong with asking other people how a game is? There have been plenty of games out there in the past that didn't receive perfect reviews but have been phenomenal games. Some games just take getting used to our overlooking certain things. Red Steel for instance. The OP is just asking how people felt about the game after they played it and their expectations.
Xenosaga II is my favorite example. Has a 73 on metacritic, but personally I think it is better than I or III which both received high to mid 80's. I simply had to play the game for myself before I found out that the reviewers were too harsh with the game.
As someone else already mentioned, many of the people bashing Lair would support Mario Party 8 even though it got slammed by the critics and even though it is little more than Mario Party 7 with waggle controls. It is not like it filled a new niche or anything either because it is a minigame game, something the Wii has plenty of.
We had two bags of grass, seventy-five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high-powered blotter acid, a salt shaker half full of cocaine, a whole galaxy of multi-colored uppers, downers, screamers, laughers…Also a quart of tequila, a quart of rum, a case of beer, a pint of raw ether and two dozen amyls. The only thing that really worried me was the ether. There is nothing in the world more helpless and irresponsible and depraved than a man in the depths of an ether binge. –Raoul Duke
It is hard to shed anything but crocodile tears over White House speechwriter Patrick Buchanan's tragic analysis of the Nixon debacle. "It's like Sisyphus," he said. "We rolled the rock all the way up the mountain...and it rolled right back down on us...." Neither Sisyphus nor the commander of the Light Brigade nor Pat Buchanan had the time or any real inclination to question what they were doing...a martyr, to the bitter end, to a "flawed" cause and a narrow, atavistic concept of conservative politics that has done more damage to itself and the country in less than six years than its liberal enemies could have done in two or three decades. -Hunter S. Thompson
