First off, you'd better start bitching when more reviews are in.

Second, it's 4% lower than Assassin's Creed for the 360 and this game is awesome, not every game needs  95% to be great... you are way too spoiled.

Nights isnt, and never was a game with mass appeal, it was based around old skool game mechanics even back in the saturn days and as such will always be a love it or hate it game. A lot of its appeal was how it used the new analogue control system, which of course is now a moot point.

I dont expect the current 360 crowd will every appreciate a game based on gaining high scores and achieving combos through repeated play of the same levels and so on, I'm actually surprised it rated this highly with the general press of today throwing full marks at every rendition of Halo.

Sega haven't destroyed another of their IPs, they have revived it, its just the market has changed so much over the last decade. If they had taken any other steps to bring the game up to date it would have been far far worse.
Its the radical updating that killed sonic, all of the recent DS and GBA iterations of sonic have been great games.

I do read the reviews, I choose reputable sites that tend to correlate strongly with my views on games which gives me a good impression on whether a given game is suitable for my preferences. You on the other hand appear to care far too much about meaningless aggregate numbers. My way is undoubtedly smarter.

 Gamerankings is completely worthless. Both as a statistical analysis and as a comparison tool.

I'd personally play a game first, before saying it didn't live up to it's predecessor. I'm still looking forward to playing it. I'm with Picko, I more watch for sites or reviewers who have preferences along my own. And even at that, I use the reviews to help determine if I'll need to rent the game I'm interested in first, to see if it's good enough, or if I'll outright buy it.

WTF is with the worshipping of scores these days? I miss the NES days -- I didn't even read the scores. If a game sounded looked and sweet to you, you checked it out.

All the reviews I read said it's kind of unpolished in terms of mechanics and feels rushed, but the gameplay that made NiGHTS fun is pretty much there (fantastic music/visuals + flying).

I wasn't expecting the second coming because SEGA has forgotten how to make AAA games. So many times in gaming it's worth taking the "meh" with the "great", and review scores don't reflect that at all.

NiGHTs should be rated a lot higher, but the reality is that Sega is just too cash strapped to buy another 10% on their review scores across the board, like the other publishers do.

Journey of Dreams... Woops... Not Journey Into Dreams... Journey "of" Dreams... Crap, I can't even edit the title...

Not too bad of a score, but nothing to brag about.

Hope it still sells well, everyone should play the game in one form or another.

Yay!  Smarts!