Players’ own reviews are another matter entirely. Remember the whole 7/10 too much water controversy around Pokémon Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire? Madness. How many times have death threats and/or generations-long family curses been sent to reviewers who slagged off somebody’s favourite franchise? Too many, that’s how many. It’s a little frightening at times how much sway these sorts of things can have on us. Metacritic and the like are powerful tools indeed. Poor reviews can end careers, positive ones can pave the way for a multimillion-dollar franchise. They are then able to fire sweet, sweet, precious paragraphs of pure truth at us regarding the game in question. ![]() Video game journalists sit by their keyboards at night, trembling, as a great epiphany comes to them. A lot of the time, here in the gaming world, reviews are taken a little too seriously.
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