wombat123 on 25 February 2017
| KLAMarine said: The press gushed about GTA 5 and I found that game to be mediocre. Hopefully praise for BotW isn't more of the same hot air. Judging by the footage I've seen, I'm reminded of Wind Waker plus more and I love WW. |
To be fair, a lot of western publishers are guilty of being too friendly with game reviewers. They give them free stuff that they can sell on eBay, they invite them to parties and make them feel almost obligated to grade their games on some kind of positive curve. Also, publishers can really screw with a publication's advertising revenue if they don't play ball and really piss them off with a bad review. That being said, I recall there were a lot of rumors about Rockstar (or Take-Two) essentially leaning on reviewers to give GTA IV great scores so I wouldn't be surprised if they did the same for GTA V.
