I don't know anything about Glixel but I think they liked it: "In a year choking with exceptional game after exceptional game, Persona 5 still manages to stand out as the unmissable RPG. For me, it has more soul, passion, humor, and panache packed into one percent of its 100-hour odyssey into thiefhood and triumph than any major release of the past year. " http://www.glixel.com/reviews/persona-5-a-japanese-rpg-with-soul-passion-and-panache-w474007
| roadkillers said: On the topic of Jim Sterling, his reviews are odd, giving a certified groundbreaking game like Zelda or even Persona 5. Then giving a 10/10 to Deadly Premonition, a game that barely hit 70% on meta.. Also on a side note, the dudes famous now. I had no idea who he was 3 weeks ago. |
Sterling is an interesting case. I was a regular at Destructoid before and during his rise to "Internet Personality" status. He built his empire by appealing to angry teenaged boys with vulgar language and sensationalism. I'm not kidding, either--this gimmick was literally including words like "piss" and "cum" in reviews and he often published rants against readers and developers. He used to include insults against David Cage in articles that had nothing to do with him or his games, for example. He didn't check his sources and often got his facts wrong but rarely owned up to it.
I always called him the Rush Limbaugh of video-game journalism because of his tabloid style but it allowed him to create a rabid fan-base.
On the other hand, his scores don't bother me that much, though they seem out of place (to me) at sites like Metacritic. That's because you can tell he doesn't sit there and consider the negatives and positives and give a score that a game "deserves", he just kind of goes, "I didn't really enjoy it that much, it gets a 6," and tacks it on the ass of the review. It doesn't mean much to anyone except Jim Sterling but he's also not trying to appease anyone with it. I'm not a fan of that style because it doesn't help me as a consumer but I don't really have a problem with it, either. Honestly, the best way to deal with the way he scores games is to just shrug and move on if it's not what you're looking for in terms of review format.
