First Bayonetta review scores (Famitsu)
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OG_Original Gamer
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Ahhh man, why did you do that, anticipation is painful.
It's amazing. All the stuff available in the game is easily a years worth a season's pass of DLC. Thank you, PG and Nintendo.
Oh shit! Less than one month!
Punished_Snake
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Good score, but does anybody know GameMaster score for the first Bayonetta?
Edit: I checked Metacritic and the magazine gave the first Bayonetta 93.
I only had the PS3 version and didn't bother playing it after comparisons rubbished it. Too late. Got it cheap though.
This will be my first play through of it, and I intend to play B1 before the sequel.
Embargo for print lifted a couple of days ago. Embargo for online lifts the thirteenth IIRC. So four more days.
Opinionatedfish
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So, they've given out... 23 perfect scores in 28 years.
Since they base their scores on mini-reviews amongst a semi-random selection of four review staff, it would seem that they have a decent record.
But yes, corruption, totally. Because it's not possible for someone in Japan, who lives in an apartment that doesn't allow pets, to enjoy the best "pet dog" simulator that was available at the time. It's not like Nintendogs had that weird economic budget side of it or the "Bark Mode" which became the basis of StreetPass in it either.
Nintendogs was a social game in Japan and the first of it's "breed." It was light years ahead of the Tamagotchi games and it had popular dog breeds in an interactive environment. Of course, Nintendogs is probably responsible for Konami's Love Plus titles.. and weird social "tag" games on mobiles; but it was also a good game. The social aspects of it were ground breaking and the title is still popular with children today. It spawned a whole (terrible) genre on mobile phones, the Wii, and the Nintendo DS of pale imitations. That is not the fault of the original game. Drag it out of your drawer and give it a go. I'm sure your dog misses you.
It may seem silly now, but (at the time) Nintendogs was something amazing and it impressed four people out of the review staff of about a dozen or so people.
Is it a 40 out of 40? Not to me, but to at least four people.. it was a 10 out of 10.
Also, at the time when Nintendogs got a perfect score, the magazine had given out all of about three perfect scores in almost 20 years. So, their scores used to be a big deal.
The newer review staff seems to be more liberal about handing out 40/40 scores. But at the time when, and a few years after, Nintendogs got a perfect score.. Famitsu scores were a big deal. So, saying they are discredited for giving a perfect score to a game that revived a dead genre (life sims), pushed the limits of what defines a "game," and redefined the social experiences of a game is ridiculously short sighted.
Since they base their scores on mini-reviews amongst a semi-random selection of four review staff, it would seem that they have a decent record.
But yes, corruption, totally. Because it's not possible for someone in Japan, who lives in an apartment that doesn't allow pets, to enjoy the best "pet dog" simulator that was available at the time. It's not like Nintendogs had that weird economic budget side of it or the "Bark Mode" which became the basis of StreetPass in it either.
Nintendogs was a social game in Japan and the first of it's "breed." It was light years ahead of the Tamagotchi games and it had popular dog breeds in an interactive environment. Of course, Nintendogs is probably responsible for Konami's Love Plus titles.. and weird social "tag" games on mobiles; but it was also a good game. The social aspects of it were ground breaking and the title is still popular with children today. It spawned a whole (terrible) genre on mobile phones, the Wii, and the Nintendo DS of pale imitations. That is not the fault of the original game. Drag it out of your drawer and give it a go. I'm sure your dog misses you.
It may seem silly now, but (at the time) Nintendogs was something amazing and it impressed four people out of the review staff of about a dozen or so people.
Is it a 40 out of 40? Not to me, but to at least four people.. it was a 10 out of 10.
Also, at the time when Nintendogs got a perfect score, the magazine had given out all of about three perfect scores in almost 20 years. So, their scores used to be a big deal.
The newer review staff seems to be more liberal about handing out 40/40 scores. But at the time when, and a few years after, Nintendogs got a perfect score.. Famitsu scores were a big deal. So, saying they are discredited for giving a perfect score to a game that revived a dead genre (life sims), pushed the limits of what defines a "game," and redefined the social experiences of a game is ridiculously short sighted.
That's nice. Now explain the 9/9/9/9 score for Yaiba: Ninja Gaiden Z.
The score for Nintendogs aside, it's incredibly obvious Famitsu is just a glorified PR mag now.
Opinionatedfish
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That's nice. Now explain the 9/9/9/9 score for Yaiba: Ninja Gaiden Z.
The score for Nintendogs aside, it's incredibly obvious Famitsu is just a glorified PR mag now.
Yes. It is called that now, but not when it gave Nintendogs that score, Famitsu had not been dragged through the dirt by competing websites and magazines.
Which was what those paragraphs were about. To help people comprehend it better: Nintendogs earned the 40/40 it got at the time because it was a new type of game that offered a lot of value to the four people who reviewed it and it pioneered a new kind of direction for the industry as a whole. Nintendogs birthed the modern StreetPass culture and contributed greatly to Mobile market design. Saying "LOL! They gave Nintendogs a 40!" is a bad argument born of a general cultural and historical ignorance.
As for later scores in the more modern era? Eh. Famitsu scores are based on the OPINIONS of four random people from their review staff. If you disagree with their take, feel free to disagree with it. However, until there is visible proof of corruption (actual designers writing reviews, proof of cash for higher scores, score fixing, or post print review editing for the sake of advertisers), the allegation of corruption is just that: Allegation.
So, yeah. I'm tired of people dropping on Famitsu over Nintendogs. If you have proof of corruption leading to higher scores, produce it, show it, and back it up. Citation needed.
sixteen-bit
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that's fucking hilariousThat's nice. Now explain the 9/9/9/9 score for Yaiba: Ninja Gaiden Z.