@DonFerrari, @Nate4Drake
Bad gameplay can certainly ruin a game's score, and as seen by these reviews, it has in many cases. If the game is boring and not worth your time, it should get a bad score. Usually reviewing a game is to help consumers decide if it's worth buying.
If I buy a game and am not happy with my purchase, it wouldn't matter how good certain parts of the game were; in most cases, the overall score is not an aggregate of it's "sub-scores" for things like sound design, graphics, difficulty, and gameplay.
But ultimately, each publication makes its own decisions on how to review games, and the good ones are more credible among consumers.
On a side note, notice how I say things like "usually", "in many cases", "in most cases", and "should". Its because there is no master template for reviewing a game, and there's a multitude of criterion that can influence the score of a game.
It's the same with movies, too. I'm not big on movies myself, but a movie isn't guaranteed a certain score just because it's CG effects go beyond anything before it, or for great acting.
Also, when did it drop to an 83? Still a good score... Hopefully I'll fall into the camp that thinks it's better than it performed by reviewers. I just hope that the 83 isn't a buffed score based on it being a Kojima game. It's possible that many reviewers went easy on this one.
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