| Kasz216 said: Yes. Lets look at the Warior Ware games. The Mario Party games did change a decent amount between games, like most if not all the minigames. However the regular reviewer just sees it as "It's still just a collection of minigames." |
Minigame collections (and "casual" games in general) tend to receive poorer reviews (in general) for the same reason; because consumers do not seem to care about certain 'features' developers tend to leave those out or do not focus on them, and these are the same features that reviewers tend to focus on because it is easier to claim objectivity when dealing with them.
As an example, many reviewers look for advanced graphical techniques as a way of "objectively" determining the quality of the visuals in a game; at the same time, most consumers look for games that look polished not necessarily games that use the most advanced graphical techniques. What this means is a game like MySims (seen below) that has an entirely appropriate and polished graphical style ends up being docked marks because of its appearance:
