I'm beginning to think game reviews are biased/skewed (or I have issues)

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ckmlb said:
You guys are really sad and trying to justify Wii games getting low scores...

They rate the game on criteria, not whether it's mature or not...

How do you explain Pokemon getting high ass scores even though the graphics are god awful and it's not a mature game?

So sad, the fact that they are on Wii doesn't excuse sub PS2 graphics in some cases and the fact that they are fun doesn't excuse the game being very shallow and limited....

 This isn't an argument that they just pulled out of a hat, Ckmlb. Reviewers have even ADMITTED that they're having trouble. Consider all these quotations:

From the EGM review of Wii Play: ""Play is for people who don't really play games, and as someone who really does, that's a problem."

Review of Wii Sports: "For the hardcore there’s not much here that you’ll be playing for more than an hour"

From Penny Arcade: ""We're not really set up to discuss titles like Brain Age, Big Brain Academy, or Carnival. That is not meant to impugn these titles in any way, because they're uniformly well made. I must admit to being taken aback by Carnival, whose manifestation of pure, country fair fun was a billion times more authentic than it needed to be. And Big Brain on the Wii utilizes some forward thinking online capability - the way you could race a friend's ghost in a multiplayer racing game, you can race a simulation of their brain in a series of puzzles. But in the same way we do not review most games for children, and most enthusiast sites don't, these "training" games represent a shard of the growing, fabulously lucrative "adult" space that has no resonance with me and probably most of the people they showed these games to."

There are many more, but those illustrate the point adequately; reviewers admit that these games aren't targetted at them, and there is a problem reviewing them.