He's a troll, he loves the attention. Same with FFXIII and AC2's 4/10.

He is indeed a troll. These guys get paid like $5-$10 per 1,000 views, and controversial articles get more views than normal (for lack of a better word) articles, so it's a no-brainier for him to want to write a controversial article which will rile people up because it puts food on his table, and wine in his belly! Lulz (it's a game of thrones reference...I think)

absurd
his words are correct to a degree, but the score is absolutely unfair
the game has amazing grafix, nice story, great dialogue and lines, characters full of personality....
the gameplay is on the simple side though

for me would be somewhere between 7 and 8

I'd day it's one of the BEST battle systems in a JRPG; very immediate and multi-layered.

What else has he reviewed?  I'm interested in knowing that track record...  I don't want to give it hits so I won't go over.

Game preordered and I'll be picking it up at the end of the week.

I thought the street date was tomorrow?

It is.  I just have a ton of work to finish up for school's second summer session.  I'd be disciplined and get it done with this game at home, but the temptation would be too great.  So I'm considering picking it up Thursday or Friday instead of tomorrow!

Permission to edit thread title from "Destructoid" to "Jim Sterling?"

Lol, what the heck? That score is for a Bob The Builder game or something! xD At least this game tried! (And looks quite interesting!)

Final Fantasy XIII 4

Xenoblade 8 (I think)

Chaos Rings 9.5

Dragon Quest 9 a 9.5

Deus Ex 9.5

I think he gave Deadly Premonition a 10 too...

These are the ones off the top of my head.

He normally ties to be controversial and imo Underrates things for hits, and overrates things he likes. I don't always disagree with his scores. But his writing is very immature etc. However, I do find Last Story significantly (2-3 points lower than xenoblade personally), the musics great though as expected.