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the_dengle on 10 August 2014
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Twilord said:
the_dengle said:
I assume you're referring to Captain Toad.

IGN has been talking the game up a lot, so no, they're not afraid to risk their "street cred" by giving praise where praise is due.

Great games deserve great scores. Unfortunately, I have no faith in most game journalists to correctly identify a great game when they play one.


You're definitely right about IGN talking it up already, but the pessimist in me feels like this is early damage control because they suspect it could easily warrant/demand 9.0/10. The fact it was possibly demanded into existence though does it a significant benefit.

 

But it still presents the opening for a fascinating hypothetical - could it be docked even 0.1 of a score from reviewers afraid of backlash due to it being so immensely pre-judge-able by consumers?

It's EAD Tokyo. No one who knows their pedigree would be remotely surprised if this turned out to be one of the best puzzle games of the decade.

The people who would be surprised are not the sort who browse the Nintendo section of IGN, so they probably won't even be aware of the score.

Anyway the game probably won't get a whole lot of 10s. Expect mostly 9s. This has more to do with it being a puzzle game than a Mario spinoff, I believe.