Famitsu Review Scores 10/17/17 - (Super Mario Odyssey)

[GuyDuke]

Veknoid_Outcast said:

guiduc said:

I don't know about integrity, but it's a different culture. Standards of excellence may vary between our Western culture and their, hence why games we would have never awarded a perfect score are praised by Famitsu, and vice versa.

It is all a matter of what pleases Japanese, in the end.

I think it's a bit of a cop out to lay this on cultural differences. Over the years, Famitsu has been unusually invested in the games it reviews, and it slaps high scores on almost everything. To me, it's simply an untrustworthy publication, national origins notwithstanding.

It is not trustworthy to me neither. I can't rely on an outlet that awards too many high scores. But is being too silky lacking integrity? That I couldn't be sure of.

So I have no faith in their standards of excellence, because they do not match the harshness I expect from a gaming outlet. But there is quite a gap between what sets those standards and journalistic integrity. Journalistic integrity =/= Strigency and rigidity. That's when culture comes in play: veracity comes in all shapes and sizes when it involves cultural perceptions. New Super Mario Bros Wii could be the epitome of what Japanese gaming culture considers a masterpiece, whereas here it's a different story.