Runbow, the "Indie Smash" for WiiU - Metascore: 89

[Never]

Goodnightmoon said:

Samus Aran said:

Never said:
The demo didnt wow me. I cant rule out the possibility that it might be great but indies do seem to be judged by a diffrent standard. Is this game really worth ten metacritic points more than yoshis wooly world?

Yeah, generally speaking critics are much more lax for indie games and it does annoy me sometimes.

That´s because indie game scores doesn´t have to be compared with full priced retail games, ever, some people do it just because it fits their agenda. This game costs 1/4 of a normal one, and it looks like a great party game with tons of content, indies have their own league.

One problem I have with this is some indie games are genuinly great to my mind and worthy of great scores equal to quality full priced games. If you're going to inflate scores because of the price how will you distinguish the truely great indie games from the ok ones.

I'm not saying price and value shouldn't be considered at all in a review but the balance reviewers are striking seems wrong.