Way to add salt to the injury. :C

I woke up to this and so glad I was off in my prediction. Not by much, but to see such enthusiasm for a game is truly heartwarming. Good times for gaming this year.

A lot of sites and reviewers have explained that perfect scores do not mean flawless, as no game have ever been released that is without flaws.  It's supposedly about recognizing the special status of a game.

Perfect scores are a little easier to justify in cases where they're not using a 100 point sytem.  Many games with huge, glaring flaws will be given perfect ratings in 5 point systems like the former X-Play.  Some use 10 and 20 point systems, and others use letters like in school.  

Curuios to see how much each game affected anothers score.

There was one preview I breifly scanned and recalled them talking about the arrow firing in both games. They talked about the physics in Zelda's arrow shooting in how you had to adjust for distance and so on. YOu know aiming ABOVE a creatures head instead of sniping in teh crosshairs. And then they mentioned how it made Horizons SNIPING arrows feel elementary or something to that extent.

Seeing how both games released within days of each other, I could see the reviewers having to review both at same time and thus may have lowered or highered one games score based on what one did better or worse than anothers.

On the other hand, a low score would mean delicious clickbait ad revenue!

Horizon has an amazing variety of arrows which Zelda does not have. Anyway its a different approach and Horizon requires you to know where you are shooting as that is the way to defeat enemies.

All scores should be lowered by 10 then.

But then 90 would be the new perfect and since nothing can be perfect, we'll have to lower them some more, making 80 the new perfect, and so on and so forth.

How many arrows does Horizon have? I've watch a few hours of a let's play. They have normal and fire arrows essentially so far. Guessing they will have electric arrows at some point. Also saw with the little ear piece you can see the giant gas canisters on enemies backs or other weak points, you then shoot them. Nothing revolutionary. It's neat. The fire arrows blowing up teh gas tanks is really cool and seems to do massive damage.

But Zelda has many arrows. You have fire, ice and light arrows, normal arrows. Then you have whatever that one arrow is on the figurine or used in teh trailer. Is there bomb arrows in this game?

But the point of their critique was not about variety of arrows or how to kill, but how unrealistic the firing of arrows was. Meaning you could aim at the center of a target from 10 meters away or 100 meters away and both would hit the center of the target. In Zelda, (and other games, Zelda didn't invent this) you can't aim at the same spot. If you 10 meters away you can aim at center, but if your 100 meters away you would have to aim say a foot above the target.

That is realism. When playing two games at the same time or one after the other, things that like may stick out to some and make them dock one score or raise anothers.

98 so far! Amazing scores, Nintendo bringing this new gen in guns bows blazing!