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[Runa216]

outlawauron said:

Runa216 said:

ryuzaki57 said:

 

"but I cannot ignore how boring the second half was for me.  Half of the game was a mindless, time consuming chore that required little to no interaction from me.  That's not fun, and the score reflected that. If you guys find it fun, then awesome, I'm happy for ya, but me...I didn't find it fun at all." > You're perfectly free to feel that way but there's a huge problem : a review shouldn't be a simple personal opinion. What diffenrentiates your review from the one I wrote on my blog? You may influence many people not to buy the game just because you didn't think it fun, while those people might love it. I don't say that against you (sorry if I there's any offense), I just reckon that reviews in general are a really flawed system unfit to today's market. Back in 2009 there was a little JRPG called Trinity Universe, but I didn't buy it because the reviews on French sites were quite negative. I picked it up in 2010 because I was still curious about it, and now it's one of my favorite games of this generation. 

 

 a 5.4 is still positive.  

Come on now. I'm not to going to get into the validity of game journalism and how you should review, that's an issue where everyone seems to be set in their place. But a 5.4 isn't positive at all. The 4-6 area is generally bad-mediorce. I believe VGCs assigns an 'average' which by definition isn't positive.

Well then Mediocre, as the review label says. I would not call it decent or good or anything, Mediocre is a fine descriptor.