Did you even read my statement?

Clearly they want to keep Japanese beach volleyball genre game down. (Honestly I just wish it would die in a fire already). 

As far as I can tell metacritic only counts western rewiew sites for it's score and DoAX3 got western rewiews from sites that are on metacritic. And it got over four, wich means it got scored.

None of this, however breakes any of Metacritics 'rules'. You discount the fact that DoA includes a finished english localization, but I'd argue that, that along with all of the controversy and therefore publicity tecmo drummed up for the game it made it much more accessible to Western reviewers.

No one in the West is going to rewiew a game that is either likely going to be localized and might be under embargo still, or one that is likely never going to be released outside of Japan in case it doesn't have any localization already. Now add the intense media coverage this game has already gotten, and of course you're going to have a few sites trying to satisfy that interest.

Hey You Pikachu probably would have gotten early western rewiews too if it had the english localization ready, since the media interest in that game was also there.

Metacritic didn't handle this game diffrently, the media did. Your beef shouldn't be with them (at least not for the reason you're giving) but with the sites that decided to rewiew this.

It actually sounds more like your Issue with Metacritic is that they exclude Japanese/Asian rewies in the first place, not they broke their own rules (wich, as far as I can see, they didn't).

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I wasn't referring to that... 

There are other sites as well...