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Michelasso said:
Scoobes said:

Do you actually read these reviews or just look at the score? The content is far more important than the score and the review describes all the positive and negative points quite well. Edges reviews are some of the most well-written, coherent and critical reviews in the industry, regardless of the score.


Sure. Tell this to a student: you're good because you show to apply yourself, to study. I really appreciate your efforts. You just made few mistakes, so I will give you a 5/10 (in Italy anything below 6/10 means failure. One must take the class again). Or a D inthe US system. I don't give a damn about the content. Few have time to read all reviews. What it matters the most is the final score. If the score doesn't match the review then the reviewer is no good at all. I have been for a couple of years a Math high school teacher myself. I can assure you that to give the right score is one of the hardest part of the job. 

Anyway I looked for the Edge review of FF X but I couldn't find it. But honestly it would be just to understand how bad a reviewer can be. FF X is in the top games list of many FF players. Mine for sure. To have given it a 6/10 just shows a total lack of competence. And yes, I read also the couple of negative reviews for FF XIII-2, at least the one showed in the Metacritic. It seems to me that most of these guys give bad reviews to popular games just to raise THEIR audience. Otherwise they would still sunk in the anonymity they belong to. 

That's aboslute rubbish Edge don't have to adhere to the feelings of fans nor do any other reviewer for the matter, for one 5/10 is average in Edge's scaling which meant they found X above average, many people liked X but many people also didn't to claim it's a lack of competence because it got a score you don't like is being big headed and I'm guessing you also don't know how Edge rates and reviews games either. They're an industrial mag as well as a gaming one so they look at technical aspects, innovation as well as what progression a game has had over it's predecessors and even things like glitches can result in the score reflecting it as seen with the Fallout games.

This is why getting a high score in Edge is seen in the industry as a notable achievement, if every outlet reviewed like Edge the would a much more accurate reflection of the quality of games today.