Until Dawn Review Thread - Meta: 80

[binary solo]

d21lewis said:

binary solo said:

Seems like people who know, or can recognise, and appreciate the deliberate cheesyness of the teen slasher horror genre this game is playing on are liking the game, generally. And people who either don't realise that the game is intentionally corny or they think the game doesn't pull the cornyness off well are not liking the game so much.

Odd comment from Polygon, that sort of sums up, again, the brokenness of the review scoring system "It's not a great game, probably not even a good one.." They gave the game a 6.5.
For a game that's "probably not a good game" I would expect a lower score. Of course I have a problem with a reviewer who says a games is "probably" anything. The job of a reviewer is to give us a definite opinion not a probable opinion, i.e. say "It's not a great game, it's not even a good game..". Did the reviewer not actually finish the game?

Jim Sterling score 9.5/10 and is not up on metacritic yet, so that will bump the average up a bit. I respect Jim a lot. He pulls no punches, as a wide gaming interest and if a game like this was badly executed he would rip it to shreds. To give a game like this a 9.5 means he really likes the movie genre emulation element and he really got into the whole schtick. But not everyone is going to be able to allow themselves to be swept away by that schtick.

Sounds liek you need to get quite far into the game to really start appreciating it.

From what I heard, he gave Onechanbara Z a really high score and that game is atrocious.  That's coming from me, a lover of boobies. He likes what he likes but sometimes, I just have to question his judgement.

I'm not saying I always agree with him, but I respect him because he seems to be free and honest with his opinion. And he pretty much hates the corporate nature of the whole game industry, so he's not likely to be doing patsy reviews to suck up to the biz. Thankfully he doesn't rely on game company advertising to make money, so he doesn't have that little conflict of interest to juggle.

Also he gave Onechanbara Z 7.5/10. A good score, but one could never accuse it of being a really high score. It might be a lot higher than it deserves, but 75 vs the metascore of 58 isn't wildly outside the bell curve.

I'm looking forward to the zero punctuation review. Yahtzee has mostly been reviewing games I don;t really know or have an interest in, so it's about time he got around to something I want to hear about. He did review Rocket League, but that's a difficult gamer to review with his sort of humour. Hard to put dick, vagina, pooh and bum jokes into a game that has no human presence. Until Dawn has plenty of scope for all that vulgarity, so it should be a fun review whether he loves or hates it.