Oh... the typical "Boo hoo, the game I like didn't get 15/10 and everyone must by law have the very same opinion as me, therefore everyone is a bunch of idiots, boo hoo!" thread. Move along...

I hope you aren't being serious here. Different reviewer and a different time. If Majora's Mask was released in 2015, it'd do far worse because of it's old mechanics.

What you people don't get is that the one con doesn't acount for the whole -1.3.  There just weren't enough positives to make the score higher.  DUH.

Games don't start at tens and lose points. It's possible to have nothing *wrong* with your game and yet not warrant a ten because it doesn't have enough good to warrant it. Scores are awarded bassd on what the game's quality warranted. Not saying I agree with this score; they just lost a lot of staff and that has certainly had and will have impacts on their ability to supply a proper perspective. I'm just saying that's not how reviews work.

I never personally said its bad, I'm talking about from the view point of the reviewer.  This is all subjective, which is what reviews are all about.

Games don't start out as 10s by default and then lose points based on flaws. IGN and several other major game review sites have said this many times.

Regardless, if 1/4 of a game's content is lackluster, it should feel lucky to get such a high score.

And this is why score based reviews need to go away... They don't amount to anything, pun intended.

Although, I'll be sad to see them go if they do. Scores are good in the hands of people who don't take them as absolute fact.

I will, but actually I was just saying that within the context of IGN's review they felt one of the four dungeons was inadequate. Had nothing to do with my own thoughts on the game.

I would have good things to say about it if I ever felt like saying good things about it. They're here in my head but they bore me.

*Channels inner IGN reviewer*
I give this thread a 7.8/10. It has too much water.
I also give the human responsible for this thread a 7.8/10, as the human body has too much water.

No, but seriously.

I miss Audrey. I used to love her Nintendo reviews because, well, she's a Nintendo fan like myself. When she said a game was good, I knew I'd like it, if she said it was bad, I knew I wouldn't. They really haven't gotten back to that yet since she left, and it's pretty much gone down hill. Now, I just watch the video review to see a quick snippet of what the game looks like, and go to Destructoid for reviews. They're not always great, but they usually get it right, and the comments section is usually great.