noname2200 on 26 April 2008
| Parokki said: I don't like how this game has been graded. It's clear that they loved it, and the only thing even resembling a complaint is "you'd better use control option B rather than A, because it's a lot better", yet all the scores are 7.something and an 8.5 for graphics. They're basically capping the scores at 8 because it's a low budget puzzle game, even though they describe it as pretty much the best low budget puzzle game imaginable. Of course you can't really give the same score as Brawl or GTA4 either, which really begs the question if there's any point in using the same scale for every single game out there. |
This is why I think reviewers should move away from grades and scores altogether, and simply have their review state what's good, what's bad, and what type of player the game will appeal to. Sure it'll mean a little more work, since metacritic won't be able to do all the reviewing for us, but it'll hopefully force the reviewers to go into a bit more depth.
Oh, and thanks for the find masschamber. This means there's yet another Wii game that I'm interested in, but which has to compete with the half dozen others for my puny wallet.
