Dear all,
Today is the sad anniversary of the no less sad review of Final Fantasy XIII-2 on GamrReview. Having enjoyed the game in Japanese before the western release and being a big FF fan, that was one of the most painful reads in my life. It was uncessarily offensive and full of contempt towards the game, its predecessor and thus the numerous people who liked it. But this debate has been done already so there's no need to re-open it.
The game currently sits at 4.09/5 on Gamewise but it has 5.4/10 on GamerReview. I remember at that time that it was about using "the complete array of scores and not just from 7 to 10". Fine. Recently, as I had some free time, I went trough ALL the gamrreview scores those past 12 months. On 250 games reviewed, only 20 had a score below 5.4, which means that Final Fantasy XIII-2 is within the 10% worst games of the year according to GameReview.
Then the question is simple : Do YOU think that Final Fantasy XIII-2 is among the worst games of this year? Is it legitimate for a professional writer to attempt to destroy the future of a game that millions await, over a personal dislike? Let's hope that Lightning Returns, which doesn't particularily seem to cause much hype on GamrReview, will get a better or a least fair treatment.
Tell us, GamrConnect!