It's a ten for me, you're not playing with those Japanese subtitles are ya? And you're avoiding thr stealth when you can? And you're playing on hard?

Everyone has a different interpretation of a 10 and a 10 is never a perfect game. Look at Tony Hawks Pro skaker 2 and all the 10's it got and again I'll mention TW3 cause it's a staple in this, when that game released on ps4 it was a MESS, they've fixed and refined it now but there were so many issues that you'd come across hourly like falling into a hole and being utterly stuck, not that this happened to me but I had problems on the hour every hour and as the month went on they slowly patched some of the most glaring stuff out, waaaay worse than Tsushima but still on that initial playthrough I rated it a 10, I know you don't and couldn't get through it but it's my GOAT and on my most receent third run in Janurary it's the most polished it's ever been but it doesn't matter, I'd still rate 1.0 a 10 cause it's that good for me. 

But hey, Where are these glaring issues you speak of? I have only seen one so far and that is Jin getting caught on rocks after a jump,the camera  which I've now mastered with no hand holding lockon needed and the zoom outs when talking to NPC's which is there,obviously to save animation time.. I've not seen any clipping or majour animation flaws

That happens sometimes, some games have clear flaws but you just love it so much.

You can enjoy it a lot more than that number represents it, but critics should score it accordingly to the flaws it have.

I'm glad I'm not a critic, tho xD

Demon's Souls for example, it suffered from some really bad framerates drop on the mines when the lava bugs where still alive, and killing some made the game almost freeze sometimes.

But to me, that game is GOTG material and more than worth a 10/10.

Curious as to why you're willing to take the reviewers' word for the open world being generic but completely and conveniently ignore their word on how amazing the combat is? The combat has been receiving universal praise. You don't have to do much research, just look at the OP for reviews' snippets. 

It's funny how so many of you, who obviously don't game mainly, if ever, on their PS4, are here just to tell us what Sucker Punch metacritic score ceiling is and then kindly highlight (or cherry pick) all the negatives that the vast majority of open world games suffer from. Oh well, I blame Phil, not much exclusives-centered discussions can be had on the Xbox forums I am afraid, so you'll have chime in here I suppose. 

In the meantime, the rest of us will enjoy playing Mitsurugi in vastly bigger stages than those offered in Soul Calibur

When I used to write reviews in the forums here back in the day I used scores to simply symbolize the review but I broke it down in 5 parts (gameplay, story, graphics, music and difficulty) which where assigned adjectives to them (bad, good, etc).

I think there is a lot more than just how fun it is, I think lots of things affect different games in different ways, but at least a balanced mix should be present on all reviews. Things matters more or less to each games, so its a case to case scenario.

It's a pretty strange thing, trying to mix objective and subjective things into a hard cold number, it's definitely not an easy job to do and doing just one (full objective or full subjective) certainly doesn't represent the game properly in many ways.

I think its fun to talk about it and that's why I make this threads, but in the end your own opinion is always the one that should matter the most.

Have you found these flaws though in your game? I haven't after 20+ hours (maybe 24 now), what reviewers are saying these flaws exist and to what extent?

Hmm, I gotta say Don, that's one hell of a nitpick.