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Teeqoz on 20 November 2014
Slade6alpha said:
It's not just the score or the humorous complaint, it's the actual review.

She spends far too much time (2-3 paragraphs) on the aspect of excessive water, and HMs. The whole piece isn't very well structured also IMO. What about Mega evolutions, or the new story content? I just didn't like the overall presentation of the review. Score doesn't mean jack to me.


At least you read the review Slade. And that's why I ❤️ you.



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Zekkyou on 20 November 2014
ktay95 said:
Zekkyou said:

I think it's a a perfectly valid criticism. The excessive number of water pokemon and incredibly tedious water navigation sections (of which there are many) where my two biggest gripes with Emerald. From what the reviewer says, those navigation sections haven't aged well at all, especially when considering how far the series has come in hammering down on boring fluff. That's exactly the kind of thing i want to be told by a review.

The only reason people are up in arms about it is the score. If it was a 9 with the same complaint nobdy would care.

Probably, yeah :/ Heck, an 8/10 would probably have been enough to stop the majority complaining. Many people seem to put a lot of weight in the jump from 7.9 to 8.0.



Ljink96 on 20 November 2014

It's just like art. Take criticism and move on guys. But Miyamoto said "games aren't art"... F U IGN!



Zekkyou on 20 November 2014
Slade6alpha said:
It's not just the score or the humorous complaint, it's the actual review.

She spends far too much time (2-3 paragraphs) on the aspect of excessive water, and HMs. The whole piece isn't very well structured also IMO. What about Mega evolutions, or the new story content? I just didn't like the overall presentation of the review. Score doesn't mean jack to me.

I was glad she spoke about those parts in detail. With all the cool new features, i'd hoped that they'd have focused on fixing some of the original's more glaring flaws.

Unlike most you actually read the review though, so i can respect your opinion o/



ktay95 on 20 November 2014
Zekkyou said:
ktay95 said:
Zekkyou said:

I think it's a a perfectly valid criticism. The excessive number of water pokemon and incredibly tedious water navigation sections (of which there are many) where my two biggest gripes with Emerald. From what the reviewer says, those navigation sections haven't aged well at all, especially when considering how far the series has come in hammering down on boring fluff. That's exactly the kind of thing i want to be told by a review.

The only reason people are up in arms about it is the score. If it was a 9 with the same complaint nobdy would care.

Probably, yeah :/ Heck, an 8/10 would probably have been enough to stop the majority complaining. Many people seem to put a lot of weight in the jump from 7.9 to 8.0.

Its all Fran Mirabella's fault =P



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Spade on 20 November 2014
Zekkyou said:
Slade6alpha said:
It's not just the score or the humorous complaint, it's the actual review.

She spends far too much time (2-3 paragraphs) on the aspect of excessive water, and HMs. The whole piece isn't very well structured also IMO. What about Mega evolutions, or the new story content? I just didn't like the overall presentation of the review. Score doesn't mean jack to me.

I was glad she spoke about those parts in detail. With all the cool new features, i'd hoped that they'd have focused on fixing some of the original's more glaring flaws.

Unlike most you actually read the review though, so i can respect your opinion o/

If she didn't put that simple thing in there at the end, "-too much water" the whole thing would not be made out to be some defense mechanism to hide the fact that the game for her, and a lot of people had too much water present and was a legitamate complaint. 

I haven't played this game in over 10 years, but I think one of my complaints was the HMs and the water aspect too. I hope the Latios aspect helps remedies it, but who knows. It was a real complaint that I can see though. 



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ktay95 on 20 November 2014
Teeqoz said:
Slade6alpha said:
It's not just the score or the humorous complaint, it's the actual review.

She spends far too much time (2-3 paragraphs) on the aspect of excessive water, and HMs. The whole piece isn't very well structured also IMO. What about Mega evolutions, or the new story content? I just didn't like the overall presentation of the review. Score doesn't mean jack to me.


At least you read the review Slade. And that's why I ❤️ you.

Fuck reading, video reviews for the win =D



XanderXT on 20 November 2014

I really didn't like how she removed at least .2 points for things that weren't problems 10 years ago.



naruball on 20 November 2014
XanderXT said:
I really didn't like how she removed at least .2 points for things that weren't problems 10 years ago.


Games evolve over the years. A GTA game that scored 9's a decade ago would get 7's at best today. 



KyleeStrutt on 20 November 2014
Soriku said:
Is "too much fire" a complain for Ruby?

Too much land you mean.