And gaming sites are now praising the raise in score saying people actually like it and that this is a victory against bots. :P

10/10. Well played.

A thing I forgot, in most games you have to wait like 20 seconds to get back into the game once you die. In TLOU2 it takes like 2 seconds. How did they do that? It was so amazingly fast.

Xenoblade has been doing this for a long time. So it's not some hardware miracle.

Odd way to look at it as a win. Its not all bots posting negative reviews.

This could become a bad look for Metacritic as they are also deleting actual negative reviews while keeping the positive review bots in the mean time. It can make them look bias and the fact they don't do this with every game. Example: Warcraft Reforge sits on a 0.6/100 with 30,000 Users hating the game shortly after the China protesting incident, that User score has not changed since. Treating some companies with special privileges will only back fire in the long term reputation of the site.

The video below is a good watch about whats happening.

Ill will be making a separate Post about this shortly.

Well I wish more games would be like TLOU2, Sekiro and Xenoblade then. Hopefully this is what many of the PS5 games will do.

Actually I think the amazing thing is that so many games load that long after a death. Amazingly bad.

Respawn after death is usually a checkpoint close to the point you died, same level or area, so basically you already have loaded all the world, monsters and textures you need. But alas, most games drop everythign and reload the damn level. So all you need for a faster reload after death is devs with two braincells and enough resources to do their job.

Im sure Sony will utilize it, but I still have my doubts about it being very common among third parties.

That would be amazing. Not very long until we find out for sure.

I guess I know why you are pissed and would be an explanation I gave on here that shows similarity to the first game, let it sink and perhaps it will set.