Do you remember the guy that used to make posts here about trying games but always complaining they were too hard when he clearly didn't bother to learn the mechanics of it? Well, I think that guy got himself a job at IGN.

Non effort port and a smallish DLC for full price and full release. I mean its a great game but a low-key effort from Nintendo that not everyone will appreciate. Particularly if you already played it already on on Wii U. Otherise, its a must have for any Switch owner.

I have to admit that it's a joke we both could've made independently, but I'll send him my cohort of lawyers just in case.

But seriously, thanks for the intervention.

Now that I'm posting here, I'll say that, even if it's weird that a remaster with more content has a lower score that the original game, it's true that the reviewer may not be the same person and has probably a different taste in games and maybe even a different reviewing methodology, so that 7 is also understandable. In the end, reviews are just opinions.

Okay, I only watched the 3D World's portion of his review, and if I remeber correctly, he complained about the multiplayer, fixed angles and animations (some of them). Was Bowser's Fury that much of a deal to lower the score to 7?

They actually seemed to say they liked Bowser's Fury better. The complaints all seem to revolve around the game being too hard. They even complained that when you die too many times the game gives you a golden leaf which gives you incincibility and the Tanooki suit. But, apparently being invulnerable and having a crazy good jump isn't enough because you could still potentially fall down a hole. 

Any challenge is apparently too much for this reviewer.

So we are reviewing the correlation between price and quality now and not just quality? What madness is this?

Scores are assigned to the quality of the game. It should have nothing to do with the cost of the game.

People need to stop being so invested in review scores.

At the end of the day, a reviewer is a mere human being like you or me, and a review is just their opinion.

Honestly, the hysteria that goes on whenever a popular or hyped game scores less than a 9/10 has gotten pretty ridiculous. 

You might be on to something, maybe its the same guy.

I'm not a reviewer so I wouldn't know. However value is one aspect a lot of people consider in reviews (in general) so it should be applicable to someone reviewing video games.

Say for example, a smaller scale game like Spiderman Miles Morales (an expansion) would be a rip off at full price and even at $50 its not that great value for money when it is essentially a 10 hour game, it might reflect or have an impact a persons review.

However this isn't a 7/10 game imo, but this is an opinion piece from an outlet. No need to get over up in arms over a single digit or two in a review score, yeesh. (Not directing this at you btw)

I agree no one should be up in arms. I said my last comment amusingly btw, not annoyed lol. Internet doesn't detect tone of voice sadly.

I don't connect review scores and value, personally. If I want to know the value of the game I do research on it. The review score, to me, tells me how well the game did at what it was trying to do in the genre it fits inside. But that's just me and that's fair we all look at review scores differently. Thank you for explaining your perspective.