Skullwaker on 26 August 2015
| patronmacabre said: I agree with your statements. I wasn't actually indicating whether there was or was not any bias, I was simply wondering how it would be possible to analyze whether or not there is any actual bias against Japanese games by Western critical outlets. And, as I said, it's really, really hard to actually evaluate whether such bias exists, since the only major review outlet in Japan is Famitsu, and I think most people agree that Famitsu by itself isn't exactly... well, for lack of a better word, unbiased. Maybe if there was a Japanese equivalent of Metacritic that was prominent, this could be easier. I think, maybe, using Amazon review scores in Japan would be viable? Again, I would have to compile a really long list of data and put it into R, and I am really, really way too lazy to do any of that. |
Amazon reviews in Japan are really, really awful. Even worse than they are in the US, I'd say.
