not sure why the huge fuss over them giving away perfect scores. i saw the list and its still relatively small. yes most are recent 2 years. but they are also very different games from one another. which is what makes them keep their credibility for me.

i mean look at recent, we have nsmbwii, mh3, boyonette, dq9, mgs4, 428, brawl.

none of those games are in each others genre at all. and i think we can all agree that they are the best in their genre's. well dont' really know this bayonette or 428. but mario is in a league of its own, brawl is, mh3 and dq9 are just HUGE phenoms in japan.

now if a ton of them were all in same genre, like say shooting or something hten yea its loosing credibility, but how is giving the best in each genre a perfect bad, and also they are on many different systems.  and no don't just quote me and bitch about final fantasy being better than dragon quest.  we are talking about japan (famitsu) here.  and japan loves dragon quest more, so drop it

At last a decent review. Get it on Meta! Am pretty sure Famitsu are better respected than those onion pricks so these 2 reviews should just be swapped. Famitsu on Meta and Onion OFF.

That's the fourth one this year.

Add FF13, and it will be FIVE perfect games in one year. Really?

Famitsu has become a joke.

yea i have no idea who onion is either and a few other 70's.  I mean i haven't played this game and haven't played a ton of other games this generation, and even games that i know i woudl not like I can understand thier value.  Sure I might not see MW2 as the best game ever or even like it, but I know that it is a great game, and can see that it is at least in the 8-10 range.

and i thik everyone can agree and see that this game is great, made great, fun, replay value, not buggy/laggy/gliche, and so on.  THere is no excuse for giving it a 58, or even teh 70's that it got.  not saying it deserves a 100, or even 90+.  But anyone with a half a brain can see its at least an 8.

rating mario, codmw2, and other great games this gen any lower than an 8 is just showing your bias fanboyism and unprofessionalism.  Now yes I'm sick of seeing a thousand 9+'s this gen, I feel like over half of them shoudl be in the 8's, but I still can see them for them being great games and that they don't deserve lower than 8's.  Which to me an 8+ is a great game.  9+ is the best there is that genre, and will be remembered and played generations to come.  They won't be tossed aside when a new game in that genre comes out, they will hold firm as the king.  (or used to be, now there are so many 9+, and they are outdated within a half a year.)   

reviewers need to rethink this replay value.  they need to not only think, can i play this for hours on end, but WILL I.  If the game will be tossed aside in a couple months because the next shooter (picking on shooters since so many) comes out.  that is not a 10 in replay value.  Or if they find themselves going back to playing halo 3, after a month or two of MW2, then bam that is not replay value.  Replay value is when you are still playing mario bros 3 on your old consoles, or a hack on computer, or on wiiware.  Or still playing contrra, or tetris, or replaying some rpg for the 100th time. 

Its not i'm just forcig myself to get all trophies/achievements and then when done/done with that game.  Now being a non player of both MW2 and Mario at moment, I can't judge fairly, but I think its safe to say in the future more people will be STILL playing this new mario than will be playing MW2. 

So the most recent Final Fantasy, Dragon Quest, Monster Hunter and 2D Mario games have all gotten perfect scores now.

I kind of wonder if they given 40s to games like Bayonetta and 428 just to make their pandering to the biggest franchises less obvious.

TheThunder said: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Famits%C5%AB#Perfect_scores More perfect scores in 2008-09 than in 1998-2006 Those guys make IGN look like the academy awards and that's saying something

I would say that in the past two years technology has allowed for games that are consistently better than anything in the last two generations. I'm sorry, but most of Famitsu's perfect scores in the last two years I agree with. It's hardly a scandal...the games in question really are that good.

My vote is that FFXIII will not receive a perfect score, but will recieve a great score just the same.

Because we have 4 excellent games this year? It's soooooo difficult to accept this fact?

@edit: And LOL look at what you are saying. Final Fantasy is quality franchise, it will be an excellent game for sure. FF13 probably will deserve a high score and if you see a 40 you will go crazy saying "OMG Famitsu is a crap now" and you will completely forget that Final Fantasy is an excellent franchise. Come on.. where is the sense here?

The fact is that the game industry is evolving, it's more easy to make an excellent game now than before, and you can't blame Famitsu if we have a lot of great titles this year. They won't make excuses to give a low score for a game just to make the magazine seem more severe (like EDGE), if the game deserves 10 they will give a 10. 

well its a nintendo casual game that somehow stole his manliness.

if uncharted 1, 2, mgs4, modern warfare 2, killzone 2, and other hardcore manly games or i mean "M" games where all 10's there would not even be an eyelash batted, just bragging about how great their consoles lineup is. 

And the other side would be talking about how biased reviews are, like they already do. 

I agree.