Explain the Metacritic Gap Between Tropical Freeze and 3D World

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3D World was fun, but it was definitely GROSSLY overrated. A solid upper 7.

I think both the retailers and the Wii U's presence at large as well as the lingering prestige of the 3D Mario lineage put a lot of pressure on critics to inflate scores sky high when they truthfully really shouldn't have.