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jacks81x on 12 February 2014
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Xen said:
ethomaz said:

Xen said:

Yeah... but it is Famitsu... their credibility is the credibility of dirt...

It's a decent selection, but pretty much nothing is a must-have thanks to cross-generation presense or lack of appeal to the JP market.

I think it is only here in the western that Famitsu seems to lack credibitity.

Their focus in Japan tastes and for that they really do a great job... these scores are maily focused to Japaneses... so that's why they differ a lot from the westerns reviews.

At extremely high scores for extremely flawed games consistently, their scores are not really molded to anyone I think. FF XIII for example. Nobody will argue that it's extremely flawed, even if it's a fan of the game, and yet, it got like 38/40 or 39/40 in Famitsu.

They are said to rate for hype, or at least that's something I remember hearing time and time again.

Yea, but to be fair, a lot of Western reviewers also gave FFXIII high scores.

IGN - 8.9

Game Informer - 9.25

GameSpot - 8.5

CVG - 9.2

1UP - A-