Game Reviews are TRASH
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- Опубліковано 1 лис 2022
- Coney learns about the worst IGN game reviews according to this video, and gives his talk on review critiques in the video game industry and why they keep getting away with it.
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Crying with laughter at this. Your reaction to me saying 'blathering' was brilliant! Cheers for watching, Coney mate. Glad you guys got a chuckle out of it. Had no idea more than 300 people were ever going to see this video lol. Really helpful seeing my video through the eyes of someone else, so thanks.
It was a very funny video
big fan bro keep it up
the over-the-top pissed off british dude persona (if that’s what it is) here goes crazy please keep it up
I don’t know how to explain it, but you’re right, there is absolutely a difference between a 9/10 with no cons and a 10/10 game.
I would honestly argue that there are even 10/10 games that have cons.
The difference is 10/10 implies it has no specific demographic and *everyone* can enjoy it. 9/10 with no cons acknowledges that it’s main “flaw” is that it isn’t universally appealing. It’s not listed as a flaw because it really isn’t, it’s just purposeful design. Hades fits here because not everyone like rougelikes.
And yeah 10/10 with flaws is also a thing, but more complicated.
@@emanonomoi I heavily disagree with the opinion that 10/10 media has to have mass appeal. If anything, I find that games that hone into a specific audience can achieve a more personal feel and leave a greater impact.
Everyone is into different things, and by your logic the only games that would qualify for 10/10 is stuff like Tetris or Mario Kart, since those are the only games that truly have "universal appeal".
Games like celeste or resident evil 4 would be disqualified because not everyone likes platformers or horror games.
@@emanonomoi Really depends on how scores are meant to be interpreted.
a) As a measure of how much the reviewer liked the game
b) As a measure of how much the reviewer thinks the audience will like the game
c) As a measure of some pre-defined qualities of the game
d) As a measure of comparison against other games inside (and sometimes outside) a genre
In all of those types of reviews con-less 9/10 and 10/10 mean different things.
a) Liked it a lot, but not quite enough
b) Thinks people will like it, but not enough
c) Great but not Excellent (or just a consequence of the algebra not working out)
d) Great but doesn't feel better than other 9/10's or close enough to other 10/10s
@@kyx5631 Oh there's absolutely 10/10 with flaws, even 10/10 with a hell of a lot of flaws (Looking at you, breath of the wild), but I didn't wanna open that basket of worms in this youtube comment.
I only trust one man with my game reviews and that is OnlyOneHere on metacritic.
Amen brother
that's our GOAT
I clicked hoping it was more OnlyOneHere :/
@@2maka5u 0/10 no OnlyOneHere
the vod channel just uploaded the onlyonehere vod the other day too its meant to be
I really feel coney when he says there are no winners in this video. The British dude is letting out his colonial gamer rage lmao
Yeah and Coney saying Death stranding bad is just plain wrong
The Death Stranding reviewer was a winner for sure. That is the most 6/10 game ever made
@@notimeforcreativenamesjust3034 He literally followed it up with "Ah, but people are doing the whole "It's actually just misunderstood" bit."
And that's exactly what you're doing lmao
@@OwNAvenged I liked it when it first came out, theres no change of opinions here
@@notimeforcreativenamesjust3034 For the amount of people who absolutely couldn't care to get into the game, a 6/10 is like a perfect score. When giving a score for the masses, you can't just say it's a 7 or 8/10 'if you're into this specific type of thing' and act like there aren't countless people who are not at all interested in it, even amongst fans of the creator
“I hate politics in games that’s why I love bioshock” might be one of the funniest comments I’ve ever heard, it’s so good
I love how I've already seen 2 comments about OnlyOneHere. It's hilarious how he's become such a well known character in Coney's fanbase
I remember when I was reading Splatoon 3 reviews, and there was 1 insanely negative review. I clicked on the persons profile, and was pleasantly surprised to see it was OnlyOneHere.
I almost wonder if OnlyOneHere is satire but I'm just gonna keep telling myself it's not
@@taylortots5549 I am convinced it’s real because they also have a “parody” account called “onlyonemissing” where he gives games he gave 0s and sarcastically reviews them as 10s. It could be a copycat but the way the reviews read are so similar.
The thing about too much water is that it's right. Everywhere that has water in the late game has the exact same encounters, as well as high encounter rates. It's frustrating and unrewarding
Repels exist for a reason
@@patrickburton1401 I think repels being required to get through (not enjoy, get through) 1/3 of the map can def be notee as a flaw
@@patrickburton1401It doesn't change the fect that for a good chunk of the game you have no new encounters
The main thing that I've heard is that they gave the original games a 9 out of 10 despite it having a worst problem with the water section of the game. This is the big issue with IGN, they get different people to review different games, and as such they're inconsistent inconsistent and unreliable. That's really the actual issue with IGN and not "they review the game that I like badly and it makes my gamer blood rage" like most people's issues with them.
The thing is, while thats true until some extent, ORAS introduced the flying on the top of latios which allows you to straight up ignore most of the water sections and instead give you new things to do, by the time you get to that, you are done with the water unless you are doing the regis initial puzzle on the rapids, and at the point you can do that, you also get the upgrade to national dex encounters and the dexnav upgrade, in the originals? yeah no, screw you gamer, eat up all the water routes every time, still, repels help a lot and they are less obnoxious to use later games
The twitch comment “gamers (as a slur)” at 0:46 had me dying 😂
this guy feels like he fell out of a time gate from 20010-ish youtube
I don’t think I’ve ever seen a more accurate depiction of Gamers than this video. It seriously needs to be studied by future generations.
You get a gamer influencer commentating the opinions of a gaming top 10 reviewer’s opinions of a game journalist. Discourse of all kinds in 20 minutes
It's crazy how they ordered the tier list on the number of dislikes instead of a ratio.
Gamers don’t do math
Thank you!!! Spot on
@@bibbyboxx2219 Have you seen Mobile game players they do a lot math same with MMO players
Sheer number draws you to what got a lot of negative attention. Ratio will bring you to some review with 25 likes and 100 dislikes. Doesn't really have the same oomph or lean well into the type of video he was trying to make.
There are so many people who don't understand the "Too much water" meme. It's funny out of context, but the actual review was just about there being too many water pokemon compared to all the other types.
I think the overwhelming amount of water types in those games kinda goes hand-in-hand w there being too many water routes, it’s kinda the same review. But if you’re right and it’s just about the Pokémon themselves i think that makes the review much much worse funnily enough, just don’t use them, buy repels.
He missed how the Unleashed reviewer was intentionally shit at the game 😭😭😭
I thought this was gonna be an Onlyonehere metacritic video.
Onlyonehere is the only critic I believe in
Idk why IGN got shit on for the "too much water" ruby/sapphire thing. Even though those were my favorite pokemon games as a kid I remember even at 10 years old hating how many water sections there were where I was just stuck in random encounter hell.
9 year old me who didn't understand how Repels worked hated those water routes and the multitude of Tentacools and Wingulls that lived within.
I understand where she's coming from with the too much water statement, but at the same time, it fits the theme of the game too well for me to complain about it. Also repels are a thing, and eventually you get to fly around to whatever location you want.
Yea but how do you take out the water in a remake. They actually made it much more bearable then in the original
It’s called repels
the water is just uninteresting to look at. it's just a big flat open area without any identifiable terrain like the land has. it's just like 1/3 of the area of the map is just completely blank
Playing Death Stranding feels like watching one of those weird art pieces directed and staring massively know Hollywood superstars where you know it’s “good” but you’d never actually watch it given the choice.
On the "9/10 with no flaws" thing, I can agree with that. For me, a 10/10 piece of media (game, show, etc.) has to leave a lasting impression on me. There's a personal, subjective level to it. As an example, I played Axiom Verge and Hollow Knight at around the same time. Both are great Metroidvanias that accomplish exactly what they wanted to do, but only Hollow Knight left a major impression on me. I have no complaints about Axiom Verge, it's just that there's some intangible quality missing from it, or missing from me, that prevents it from having the same impact.
Man i remember feeling like I was crazy defending "Too much water" back in the day, it's a perfectly reasonable criticism of Hoenn as a region and that whole thing was peak gamers taking something out of context (ie just reading the blurb instead of the review) and running it into the dirt
Lol it’s a water region tho I mean
Not really cause it’s literally a tropical region though
@@z.t.9491 It being themed tropically doesn't fix the problems that that design decision creates
For like half the game, every wild Pokémon is water and every trainer used water Pokémon. It gets repetitive and tedious quickly and forces you to use certain pokemon or be at a disadvantage instead of properly diversifying your team (which is hard unless you like water pokemon). Not to mention travelling on wide open spaces of blue tiles isn't very interesting compared to the variation in designs you get in the rest of the game, AND of course every water tile can spawn a random encounter so you're just absolutely spamming repels the whole time. This wouldn't be too bad occasionally but the second half of the game is a constant barrage of water routes and running from wingulls.
Hoenn was my generation growing up, and I love it dearly, but there being too much water is completely true. The real issue is that if they wanted that much water they needed to give it significantly more variety to make it interesting.
The problem comes in that their original ruby and sapphire review that was not at all counted as a negative and the originals got a better score because of it
@@poliorice3600 Expectations change in 15 years lmao
Crazy that some people in chat couldn't understand between a great game held back by flaws and a good game with no issues being both being 9/10. It's like every game has some kind of checklist of requirements to meet to be 10/10
Yeah fr it’s not hard to comprehend. Games/movies/songs don’t reach a 10/10 because there are zero flaws. They reach that mark because you absolutely love them. Not having glaring flaws does not equate to loving a game to that extent. People with that viewpoint take out any subjectivity in a review and only look at the game on paper
@@garrettpullen9740 that is the issue that a lot of people don't seem to understand. You can't say a game is 9/10 with no flaws and don't give a reason as to why it's not a 10/10. You are either covering yourself so nobody can say you are wrong, you are too scared to voice your opinion, or you are unable to make a good review. Hell, you could say the game is dull, not enough ambition, too cut and dry, ANYTHING too justify being it a 9/10, but it's just people are unable to convey what they feel in words.
I don’t like IGN, but one thing I think is weird with people criticizing it, is that they think that everyone at IGN is a monolith or something, and they bring up multiple different bad reviews even tho they were reviewed by different people. We have to look at the reviewers individually, it’s like how people talk about rotten tomatoes as well, as if there’s like a council of people who collectively decide on a score
Thats true, holding the reviewer accountable when it really isn't their fault isn't something that people should be doing. My only issue with the people who review the games is that some of them are obviously not interested in the games they review or they start comparing it to completely different games and use said comparison as the benchmark. For example, they did this with SMT and Persona 5.
I dont really agree with this. Its a review meant to represent ign thats why its posted on their channel. They def need to have more then one person reviewing a game
It doesn’t matter they still gave bad reviews
IGN is a media company, a collective of people working toward the success and promotion of IGN. There's no standards they consistently practice, which has many believe that scores are propagated by paid promotion and bribery. They don't hire the right person for the job because it doesn't matter, they're getting paid for good reviews and not paid for games that receive low scores. If game reviews are motivated by paid promotion or identity politics, then the scores are predetermined and therefore deception.
I mean putting unsuitable reviewers on projects is a flaw with IGN
They don’t have a good enough understanding of there reviewers to assign them to appropriate projects and likely don’t have enough specialists for more niche genres tgat don’t appeal to the mainstream audience so you get shit like doom 2016 being reviewed like a battlefield game despite the game being designed like an old school PC boomer shooter with a focus on arcade style fun rather than more modern games preference for endjess multiplayer skinner boxes or console focused cover shooters
So happy this became a video, watching it live was hilarious
"What did she mean by this?" < "WOT ON URTH IS SHE BLATHERING ABOUT"
This is a really interesting issue because game journalism does often seem to come from a place that is out of touch, but gamers are largely unable to voice their dissatisfaction with reviews in a specific or productive way. I think a rotten tomatoes-like approach where games have a critical score and an audience score might help with these kinds of issues.
I think a part of that is that voicing dissatisfaction in a reasonable, productive way feels like its typically ignored. Big, loud and explosive gets people heard on the internet.
Also Metacritic has an audience score and its just as useless as the RT audience score for the most part lol
>a rotten tomatoes-like approach where games have a critical score and an audience score
That's just metacritic. Gamers still cry about it.
Metacritic exists but people still throw a fit there's no pleasing people they will hate you for not liking there game
The problem with pokemon sword and shield wasnt that it didnt have all the pokemon, its that they explained they wouldn't put them all in because it was going to take too much time/resources with making the new ones and updating old ones. So you'd expect the pokemon actually in the game to be like looking good right? NOPE, THEY REUSED 3D MODELS AND LIED ABOUT IT. So basically their explanation didn't make any sense, they were already porting stuff in, no reason to not do it for everyone or say its for the "meta" instead of outright lying. I would have been fine with saying they wanted to encourage a healthy competitive meta, which they did a good job with. But yeah, when people got the game and investigated the models and discovered the nodes (i think thats the term for the 3D points) were all the same as older 3D gens, I at least, was livid
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They also wanted to flog DLC
I remember in around 2008 my 4th grade teacher was explaining how language is constantly changing and he said that "gamer" is now a word.
I will never not be salty over the ign sonic unleashed review
A 9/10 game is like a very well-written school essay that follows the instructions to a tee. “Minimum of 5 pages”? It’s exactly 5 pages long. “Must have at least 3 sources”? It has exactly 3 sources. There’s nothing wrong with it, but it could’ve been so much more.
Coney laughing at britishisms for 22 minutes. i love it man
I’ll stand by the fact that ORAS did in fact have “too much water”
I don’t know why they phrased it like that, but there are too many water routes and too many water Pokémon in the game
That originally video feels so nostalgic lnao
Holy shit, I actually just watched this list today! What insane timing!
Gotta love it when Coney puts out a vid on my birthday. Thanks for the present bro!
Alright, IGN giving Alien Isolation a 5.0 really hurts me. That game is absolutely amazing and a 5.0 is way too low
This guy sounds like the most British British guy in Britain
oh my god what's the song at the start i love it
10:16 That doesn't make Pokémon change. Kids will still buy it, and they likely won't notice why people hate some games or "features" included in them.
The competitive mad scientists will *always* buy the game. Likely even both versions to guarantee access to every Pokémon and ability to trade with themselves before end-game.
>The competitive mad scientists will always buy the game. Likely even both versions to guarantee access to every Pokémon and ability to trade with themselves before end-game.
This is just wrong lol competitive pokemon is divided between people who don't really bother with the games and play on simulators and the ones who play official nintendo tournaments in which case they do build teams in game but no one really cares about having mons or abilities for the single player mode lol
The "competitive" side of single player is in nuzlockes or mods that increase the difficulty of the game, as without self imposed challenges the games are very easy (kids need to be able to beat it)
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Look, I do think that SMT is inferior to Persona, but I also think it's ridiculous for anybody to criticize SMTV for not being enough like Persona 5. First off, expecting anything to be as good as Persona 5 besides maybe another Persona game is setting yourself up for disappointment, but more importantly, the two franchises split off in the first place because they were going for different vibes and focuses.
Your last point is exactly why people hate the comparison between the two. In my experience, SMT is way more focused on the difficulty in battles and strategy in using demons while Persona is more story and character focused. Disliking SMT for having a lacking story is fine, but giving Persona a pass on it's difficulty is a double standard
That's the disappointing and annoying thing about anyone talking about Persona. It's gotten to the point where every RPG is being compared to Persona 5 which makes it impossible for any RPG game to stand out. Especially if it has any kind of school setting, they automatically expect it to have a dating Sim like Persona
Exactly, they are two very different franchises. SMT is way more focused on the battles and the strategy you use while Persona has the benefit of having an overarching story and activities and ways to level up rather than just the battles. The fact that a bunch of people and that IGN reporter compared the two is just obnoxiously ignorant.
There's other persona games and other main line smy games that are better than 5
Tried getting into p5 a few years after playing P4G and it being my fave single player game of all time. After 50 hours I couldn’t get into it - the UI is nice but really hurt and strained my eyes half an hour into a play sesh, the writing was not up to par with P4G and the characters were just real cringe. The dungeon design and music were pretty banger tho, maybe I’ll give P5R a try one of these days
Gamer isn't a weird word. Video games are an extremely new hobby by humanity's standards and hobbies have enthusiast names, so people invented one for gaming naturally. That's how language works.
For example, book lovers/collectors are called bibliophiles.
Gotta love new coney video and lunch
There's a spyro remake?
Ok the bike thing is kinda cute in context
I unironically adore death stranding. There's something so soothing and melancholy about it's meandering pace, muted colors, soundtrack, and bright yellow traversal aids placed by others that make your trek a little easier. The problem is that I wouldn't really call it a game in a classical sense. If I was trying to sell it to someone, I would sell it as an experience. That being said, it's one I find myself returning to often when I feel worn down and need a moment of decisive quiet.
I mean, to be fair, the water was lowkey mad annoying in Hoenn lol
And what about Alola?
2:00 One year later, Coney would indeed find out that Sonic fans do in fact go crazy
I need to watch the vod cause we're missing a game
no way coney read my message in a youtube video im literally crying
Idk if any of those reviews are as bad as the xenoblade definitive edition one where they got the names of main characters wrong
I've never been this close to being on IGN's side
This video really is a great reacting video great minds think alike
I get annoyed when people talk about reviews like there is just some mathematical equation that just says how good a game is. People also care wayy too much on how good a game is
Also there are multiple people at ign, it is dumb to say "THEY GAVE THIS A HIGHER SCORE THAN THAT" when there are two reviews by two different people
I feel the same way about a site like Pitchfork for album reviews
It's just one guy reviewing it. It's not like it's imperative to the rest of the site or anything.
What so people aren’t supposed to care if the game is good or bad is that it?
It doesn’t matter who did the review it is still a shit review.
@@LegendsForever206 Good or bad can not easily be reduced to number tho
Its not on the list but Pokemon Mystery Dungeon Explorers of Sky might have the one of worst like to dislike ratios. 700 likes and 10k dislikes. Obviously they didn't beat the first dungeon lol
To be fair I'm one of those people. I think I was in the second dungeon and I got crit one shot by a starly about 3 steps into the dungeon and never looked back
@@sladevalen2120 skill issue
They criticized it for not having new content when they didn’t play long enough to see the new content
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Yeah death stranding is weird but might be cool to dive into
It’s kinda like music with the no cons by 10/10 thing. I liked every song in that new babytron album but there’s no way it’s perfect
8:27 if it's late game just buy repels or use fly...
Choo Choo Charles would probably be high up there
he is spitting tho, they get people who don't enjoy the game series or completely biased to other games, you wouldn't get a fps fantic to
play death standing and expect a decent review
I remember when IGN complained that Super Mario 3D world's rerelease was worse than the original, even though it was a port that added stuff. Main thing that I remember being so dumb was when they complained about CHARACTER DIVERSITY which is hilarious just because of how stupid it is.
Loved the ssx remake but I was cracked at SSX might be the most cracked I've ever been in a game. Although I do get the haters the funkyness was gone but it was pretty intouch with the more current snowboard vibe of big mountain.
You know looking back at bo3 it really does feel like a good 8.7/10 just for the zombies alone. Aswell as having workshop
It's also just an awesome game. Yeah the campaign is bad. But we've accepted that out of call of duty. It just got massive hate because the internet had/has a huge hate boner for movement mechanics for some reason. The "Boots on the ground" movement might have been the biggest chop block of the games industry since "People don't enjoy single player experiences"
@@freedfg6694 the campaign’s narrative was interesting but did not continue after bo2
what do you think an OnlyOneHere review of coney’s channel be like
LAZY and GREEDY thumbnails (ICANT)
surprised to not see dunkey here
Coney, woman who play softball do not engorge to man levels of thickness. That butch woman was hitting the juice
See Coney click Coney
>Watching/reading game reviews
Lol
OnlyOneHere should be the only reviewer that we should trust
"Last of us? ... Aaaaaah" is probably my favourite line in any video on this website
15:28 I mean I respect death stranding just for how balls to the wall WEIRD it is but you can do weird and still be fun (look at yoko taro) so i dont think its good but I do think its interesting
15:20 on repeat
I had watched this video not even 2 hours before he streamed it.
cool!
Just watched this video, now I will watch it again with My Content Man :)
I like it 18:00
The too much water review is a meme but in my opinion, the most infamous pokemon IGN review is Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Sky.
The reviewer gave it a lower score (4.8 iirc) than darkness or time and only played up to apple woods (like 1/8 of the game)
Explorers of sky, one of the best pokemon games of all time, is a 4.8/10 according to IGN.
SMTV was honestly the weakest in terms of story. Over explained (10+ minute text dumps) and rushed character arcs. SMTIV is still the best game in the franchise followed by devil survivor and P5R.
I've warmed up to it as it's gameplay was really good but it's story was just a really bad nothing-burger.
I prefer demons being tools you have to eventually fuse or they'll get weak and drag you down, but having a team of any demon at lv99 to kill Lucifer was really fun.
Yay coney vid
Ol machinma UA-cam era ass video 😂
I still need a spectrobes remake, those games FUCK! Disney sucks for keeping that banger franchise under lock and key!
Okay
God I love coney so much
Shin megami tensei 5 looks good as hell
Oh my god I love ORAS so much. But yeah hoenn is a lot of water
my least favorite is the IGN LEGO Batman review
I fking love how unapologetic the guy reviewing the reviews are, I can't take it seriously and it just makes me laugh and sometimes that's just what I need.
Death Stranding go crazy
Literal worst take of the vid, DS so _coomfy_ how can you hate it?
@@Chilled_ catch me building zipline highways in the rockies whippin it like Ride w/ Norman Reedus
Personally, I have no problem with giving something a 9/10 with no issues. Personally, I never rate anything a 10/10 unless it is one of my favorite games/movies/shows, or if it is just such a good product that it blows every other option out of the water.
Where's OnlyOneHere video #2 😭
I know Sonic posting but on the topic of remakes/re-releases hear me out. I remember when Sonic Adventure came out on 360/PS3, IGN gave it like a 3/10. I won't deny it's aged poorly but a 3???
Man. The absolute shitshow that was the piggybacked hate on CoD BlOps 3. One of the legitimately best call of duty in YEARS. But gamers hate innovation and couldn't stand that they didn't get their EA Sports edition Modern Warfare 20. Well are they happy now?
My favorite part of the video was when Coney said "It's gaming time" and gamed all over everyone
For me personally a 9/10 and a 10/10 are basically the same in terms of quality and/or enjoyment; it’s just that a 10/10 is saved for games that I have like a strong emotional connection to or one that I always think about.
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As a postman myself, I really enjoyed Death Stranding
Xenoblade fans have had bad reviews going back to saga, but I believe IGN has a pretty bad one of the original Xenoblade where several important characters' names are wrong (like dunban became Duncan), major spoilers are shown, and the person talking is grating to listen to.
Too much water???
Coney looks so good here
I mean that last sentence they said regarding fragility is amazingly true for last of us 2. You can hate the direction the writing too, but it was still amazingly written in that direction.
I mean if you hate the direction of the writing you’re not going to see it as amazingly written. Can’t really blame them for not being able to kill the person that was beloved to Last of Us fans lol.
@@turkeyman631 hard disagree. I acknowledge that halo 1-3 are amazing games though I personally don’t like them. Anyone who takes their head out of the own personal preference can give credit where it’s do. I think the game is fantastically written. It just isn’t the story people wanted written, which I get. Part of me agrees. But I have to appreciate that it’s that feeling that makes it an achievement. That’s the essence of the game. It ain’t fair, your preference isn’t the reality of the world. Game was split in half. Divisive in its essence, even the games theme it it’s divisiveness in characters reflected even the players, and that’s intentionally. If that makes sense, the reaction was desired by design and they succeeded. That being said I will always wish I could have a spin off where I can watch their relationship build, Joel and Ellie, like I thought I was getting but I def truly appreciated the darkness of what we got
Hard disagree, they could've taken the writing in so many different directions, but they chose one of the worst ways to handle the story imo. For reference, from how they handled the beginning of the game to Joel's death to playing with Abby, it all felt..... unenjoyable. The way that Joel dies does subvert expectations yeah, but not in a meaningful way. When Joel dies, it comes out of nowhere and takes you by surprise, and after, you're just sitting there grieving and trying to hold it together until you suddenly switch characters and are playing as the same person who killed Joel. That interaction alone is one of the main reasons why people hated Abby and said this game was bad. You don't have time to reconcile with his death, the death is only present for the shock factor, and once you get to play as Abby, your hate and anger are still present, and trying to enjoy the game afterward just becomes tedious and disingenuous.
Don't feel bad. The Last of Us: Part 2 wasn't as bold of a sequel as Chrono Cross anyway.
On the SMT 5 review... Even if we assume that the intro about being Persona's edgy little sibling is a joke, that was probably the dumbest joke to make in this context. Persona being wildly more popular than its parent series is a *huge* sore spot for SMT fans and choosing to lead off with that was poking the hornets' nest on purpose.
To be honest, I don't know how and why you would care about popularity for a single player game. Just take the game and enjoy it? Who cares that another series is more popular (even if it is related)?
@@kyx5631 lack of an identity means latching on to their purchising habits to compensate. See also console wars, dub vs sub, ship wars and many many more pointless things people argue about
The companies promote this as it increases consumer-brand identification leading to increased sales and free marketing.
@@kyx5631 I mean... More popularity means a bigger likelihood of the game/franchise getting more games. SMT is a mechanically more intense and in depth series than its spinoff and there are people who prefer that, so they want SMT to have more exposure and thus more incentive for Sega and Atlus to put out more entries.
Not only are there 9/10s with no flaws, I would also argue that there are 10/10s with flaws.
Skyrim is my favorite game ever and is easily a 10/10 in my book, but I could go on and on about everything wrong with it.
It absolutely has flaws, but I still had an amazing time with it. How much you enjoy something should not be boiled down to pros vs cons, it should just be how much you enjoy it. If any flaw keeps a game from being a 10/10, then there would be 9/10 games i like more than 10/10 games.