Splatoon Review Thread - MetaCritic 81% / GameRankings 81.46%

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forest-spirit said:

Einsam_Delphin said:

Talks about price and lack of content, but doesn't even mention the free updates. Mmmmmm!

As it should be. Reviews should only look at what you get out of the box; future content and patches should be disregarded.

I agree with you but reviews should also be amended in the future for when that additional content does arrive.  I feel that a lot of the Mario Kart 8 reviews on the internet today no longer do that game justice mainly because they have not been updated to reflect the enormous amount of new content that is available for this game.

If a year from now Splatoon has a voice chat feature added by Nintendo due to public pressure, 3 times as many maps, numerous new game modes and countless other updates I will be very sad if Metacritic still says 81%.  That said, for today, I think that it is probably a fair rating.