So reviewers are docking Smash 10 points or more for no reason?

[Zekkyou]

Euphoria14 said:

ToxicJosh said:
Well. If memory serves, it's -2 for handheld, -5 for being Nintendo, and then -5 for not being that month's primary advertiser.

Or is it +5 if you ARE the advertiser?

It's hard to remember how review scores work sometimes.

Never understood this style of thought. Last gen and even now Nintendo games get some of the highest scores overall as per Metacritic. Many sites even rated Super Mario Galaxy as game of the generation.

Yep, Nintendo are by far the most critically aclaimed publisher in the world. The assumption that there is some mass anti-Nintendo conspiracy among reviewers is pretty ridiculous. Or at the very least, if there is one they're doing a very poor job of it :p