"If people would be more educated about what McDonalds food (and many more "non-food") really is, they would go out of business as well. But McDonalds has an excellent marketing department and has built up an near indestructible brand."
That's really vague, and going way beyond this thread. You don't like MacDonalds, but it does not change the fact that reviews don't decide the quality of a game. The customers do. This is so because they are expected to shell out $30-$60 (or other currencies) for games en masse. Claiming the reviews decide the quality is to claim that people have a say in whether they like something that they buy.
Not that you are doing that, but the very notion of reviews deciding the quality of a game basically does that.
So we will decide if Xenoblade is a good game, not the reviewers.
A flashy-first game is awesome when it comes out. A great-first game is awesome forever.
Plus, just for the hell of it: Kelly Brook at the 2008 BAFTAs
