Hummm ... I actually thought Jim stopped doing scored reviews after the whole BOTW fiasco happened. When did he begin doing them again ?

Anywoo, despite the fact we can see all too clearly that he has huge tendancies to diverge on certain points that don't matter too much for the review in it of itself.
Outlying scores are always gonna be a thing so to me it's still a huge surprised that the game hasn't dropped much more than it did.

By the way, Jim goes by they/them.

Their reviews should go by ugh tho

I thought so too. Was really confused when I saw the 75 for Metroid Prime Remastered.

I like their takes on most things, but definitely not the reviews. Had no idea they still did those, actually.

A lot of people seem really invested on an arbitrary score for a game they already know they like. Does that one slightly lower review score somehow affect your enjoyment of the game? Or change anything about it in general?

Honestly, now that Metroid Prime's metacritic score has dropped below 95, I think I have to cancel the game's presence in my list of favorites. It's clearly not worth it anymore. And it's all Jim's fault, now the game is ruined forever.

I think of Jim the same way I think of Yahtzee (Zero Punctuation). They're doing characters, and that's fine. But they shouldn't really be doing scores, since they're really doing more of commentary of the industry than evaluating a game strictly on its merits and they shouldn't be included in aggregate scores or anything like that.

I'm glad we can come to such a logical and rational conclusion about this matter. This is obviously the only correct decision here.

It's like one of user reviews which stated "it looks better on emulation on my steam deck, this one runs like crap and cannot maintain 30fps" and gave it a 0.

It is annoying to see such comments based on deliberate false stuff just to be more visible.

When I was in high school, my Latin teacher decided that we all needed to do a presentation, and the students would give grades. And there was one guy I didn't like, barely paid any attention on the nonsense he was saying. And then I gave him a bad review. And the teacher decided to not count my review. And she was right.

Same situation here.