>>48856183I probably shouldn't reply, but I need to burn off some time, t.b.h.I know you're underaged and probably don't know any better (or are just baiting, I don't even know anymore), but reviews for the last 15-20 years or so generally go on kind of a "try not to piss off the developer/publisher" system.
Generally speaking, most big name devs and publishers will do prerelease events for the press, give all DLC free, or will send out merch to advertise upcoming games and such.
Reviewers who tend to be more critical about games don't get invited to these events, or wont get the free swag. This isn't inherently evil or BAD, I mean, why would you send shit to someone that doesn't like it, or why would you fly said reviewer to your prerelease event on the opposite side of the planet, pay for their food, drinks and hotel, etc.?
So what happens is most reviewers will step on eggshells in reviews for games made by these companies big enough to do these prerelease events and merch.
This is where the "10/10, it's okay"-related memes came from, they'll write a review that's a 9.2 or something and the review itself will be a lot of softballs like "the graphics are good for the Switch" or "there's only 3 songs in this masterpiece of a rhythm game, but they are REALLY good", or whatever.
8.0 is pretty much the cutting point. Anything lower tends to piss off the publisher/dev and lose your cool swag, so most games made under/by known companies wont go lower than this, for fear of losing the advantage that reviewer has over their competition.
For a game to get under an 8 score, it absolutely has to be literal garbage, unplayable, have "FUCK NIGGERS WITH JEWISH DICKS" in the game's intro... or be made by a company they don't care about.
TL;DR: Fuck you, read the whole thing, this isn't Twitter.
