| RolStoppable said: I have nothing against the thread being derailed and I am the original poster, so no need to apologize. Besides, the integrity of this magazine is part of the topic anyway, so it's not even derailment in the first place. But personally I do think that they are influenced by hype every now and then, although by far not as often as everyone else. For example, their Cave Story review. They tend to be more generous if some personality had been working on a game. No way is that a game worth a 10, even an 8 would be pushing it (I would give it a 6, btw). And at other times they surrender to international gaming journalism. I think I've mentioned this to you before, they put Shadow of the Colossus among the milestones of the past decade which doesn't really line up with their review of the game. They weren't overly impressed and gave it a score of 77, I think. This just screams revisionism. But anyway, they are still the best magazine there is. |
Yes, I remember this, but in their milestone article they said about SotC that "despite its broken controls and empty world this title is a milestone because the bosses are levels and the game evokes feelings like grief, empathy and despair". Not complete revisionism, but revisionism still, I agree. It looks to me as if the guy who wrote this part of the artcle tried to justify at the same time their original score and their changed opinion. Of course I'm aware I was exaggerating a bit there with my statement about them being always unbiased and not falling for hypes. Everyone is biased and falling for hypes sometimes.
There's one thing I actually even strongly dislike about M!Games:
They don't have the guts to put the games they recently liked or currently like the most on their cover. Even though they love Wii and DS (just like all other systems), for some reason they rarely put a game from a Nintendo system on their cover. It's mostly HD console action games, boring and predictable covers like all other gaming magazines these days. The Xenoblade picture on the first page of their review would have made a great cover picture but they didn't even put it on their alternative subscription cover. Another one of many missed chances.
The recently discontinued printed GEE (they unfortunately switched from print to app store) was the only German gaming magazine that had the same quaility level of articles as MANI!AC/M!Games and they actually put not only Nintendo system games on some of their covers but at least once even a handheld game on alternative covers.
Meanwhile I found out that M!Games also reviewed Solatorobo and rated it 85. Indeed a very interesting issue for me.
