Nintendo Power - Conduit 2 review

[LordTheNightKnight]

kitler53 said:

LordTheNightKnight said:

kitler53 said:

i've heard nothing but good things about chinatown wars -- that is to say nothing but good things until someone made a thread here about chinatown wars something something core games and nintnedo.  after that i hears lots of terrible things about the game but not before.

i've heard mostly positive things about black ops and MW2 but i've heard more noise concerning MW2.

personally, i've been burning from word-of-mouth just as often as being burning by reviews and I've got to agree with boutrous -- they're basically the same thing.

If you mean word of mouth to you personally, that's not what I mean. I mean in general, not anecdotally.

i meant both personally and in general.

I have two friends that played the game,...they both liked it a lot.

Here are 344 comments nearly all of which are cheering chinatown wars on

amazon reviews are glowing for both the ds and psp versions

that of course is very in line with ds and psp metacritic scores

i hate to derail this thread so i won't any further but your definition of good/bad word of mouth seems very subjective and easily influenced by whatever argument you are hoping to prove.

i like metacritic scores -- it is the absolute best way to remove as much subjectivity from and inheritly subjective task.

1. I meant in helping sales, which I agree is not the best use of that term. Sure people like Chinatown Wars, and it had better legs than its small openings, but the sale show it's a well liked niche game, instead of the mainstream games that the 3D games are.

2. Okay, listing the scores is technically objective (an opinion is subjective, but that someone has an opinion is an objective fact), but it still won't matter if the opinions of buyers differs, which is why I argued against the claim someone made here that reviews and gamer's opinions are the same. It's not just Nintendo systems which show that assumption is BS.