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Dulfite on 30 July 2014
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episteme said:
Dulfite said:
episteme said:
Wow, that's a high score, I'd score it 8.8.

Combat was too easy and repetitive, but everything else was pretty great. I never had to laugh so much in a video game.


That's the thing about my review system. It prevents me from putting a general score up and instead I grade each area then add them together. Sometimes the grades surprise me too lol.

The system doesn't work well for every game... How will you score Mario Kart 8 when the story is your most important aspect?

It will probably have an incredibly similar score to MarioKart 7 due to it's lack of story. I remember the days when Nintendo used to put a story into some of these types of games (like some of the really old Mario Party games). It's not that they can't do it, they just choose not to. And since they are intentionally being lazy when it comes to the story, it will have a significantly reduced overall grade. It wouldn't take that much effort to put a semi decent story into a Mario Kart game:

"Oh no! Waluigi and Bowser have stolen the legendary time crystal and warped back into time! You must race as baby Mario and friends in order to beat them in the 50cc grand prix in order to return to modern time and race as adults! What wonders await the winner of the 100cc grand prix? You'll have to find out!"

See how easy that was? You see how ridiculously easy that was? But NO! No one wants to put a story in a mario games (other than the rpg ones). It's stupid. The whole system is stupid and I'm not changing my reviews because the system is dumb.