Times where critics REALLY missed the mark… A Thread

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IcaroRibeiro said:

78 for Fire emblem Radiant Dawn is a crazy score. I'm sure it would be at least 84~86 range if released today. The ethos during 7th generation was "gaming need to be easy and accessible to sell to anyone", and this was even more true for Wii Games. There was also a big amount of criticism because a strategy game don't make good use of motion controls, the horror!


78 for Detroit Become Human is also a crazy take. It's easily a high-80 game

Radiant Dawn is by far and wide my favourite Fire Emblem game due to its story, which really hammers in how bad war is and the aftermath of it. No other Fire Emblem game had anywhere near such a deep story.

What probably cost them so many points was that the lord was very unusual with Micaiah and the fact that many heroes were just available for a couple missions and then gone again for a long while, making levelling more tedious. Plus the issue with the difficulty level names, which implied that the hard difficulty was the normal one in the west.