Why Edge rated FFXIII so low!

[Crystalchild]

So you saw Edge's Review of Final Fantasy XIII, but how did they come to this rating? let me explain.

so we need to understand how to imagine Edge as a whole. Edge is a Magazine at first, and what do they need to do? they want to sell those Mags of them.

Darth Vader would say:

but thats not all!

at first, we need to understand them, so lets take older Final Fantasy Review's to make a comparison, for Example FFXII's Rating:

'A work of progressive genius that hauls its staid genre up by the bootstraps and takes its place alongside the WOWs and Oblivions of this world. It's altogether too good to be true.' [Christmas 2006, p.74]. - 90/100

okay, thats a great Score given from Edge there. but lets take a look at a very special thing in this:

'takes its place alongside the WOWs and Oblivions of this world. 

so, they're compairing it with World of Warcraft and Oblivion, both RPGs, and both are Rated high from Edge. but lets take a closer look:

It’s a game designed to exhaust the world’s supply of adjectives. It’s a world littered with riches - tiny details sewn into a vast, varied and utterly spectacular canvas. [Sept 2005, p.90]

so we can say that they are very biased towards games of Open Worlds, as noted you can take World of Warcraft as an Example.

so its becoming clear, how they do their criticism for RPGs:

 

so Edge Rated after the Formula they have in stock for Games like this, and so we can tell:

Square-enix screwed it up by not giving them an Open World. shame on you square.