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Kerotan on 14 May 2016
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CGI-Quality said:
Teeqoz said:

Just because someone who thinks that is the case wrote an article about it doesn't mean it's true.

 

Unless TWP says anything about it, there's nothing suggesting that it's a satire review.

If that's true, why do two reviews exist from the same source? One saying Entertainment, the other, Comic Riff. Both AP members writing separate reviews from the same source (totally different in wording, scoring, and tone).

Of course people are going to assume one of them is satire, especially when the lower scored review is a day newer and was instantly added to the most popular review tracking site on the internet. I agree with you that there's no official suggestion that it is satire, but in that same breath, there's no official word that it isn't. So, the speculation makes total sense, particularly when you consider that there's not even a score in that review (read it carefully, the "Entertainment" one written on May 11 explicitly gives a 4/4, while the other doesn't grade it at all). Somehow, Metacritic considers it a 4/10 with no posted numerics. 

Probably a publicity stunt.  In which case it worked.