Comments on: Rise of the Ronin’s overseas critic reviews booed in Japan

By: Seira

Seira — Tue, 02 Apr 2024 22:26:42 +0000

It’s also saddening when you see people make fun of Famitsu’s reviews and cling to the same old scores of titles they didn’t like when, unlike a lot of Western “Journalists”, they actually focus on review content related strictly to the game rather than unnecessary outside factors or building a nonsense narrative.

It’s a shame how out of touch the Metacritic score and usual outlets feel (not the first time) with Rise and the score got hit because of not only what is a distinct cultural difference in terms of taste, but obsession on graphics, photo realism style and, in this case, not being Ghost of Tsushima. I think it’s hurting the industry with this MC reliance.

By: John C

John C — Mon, 01 Apr 2024 18:04:18 +0000

The problem is trusting Mainstream Journalists and Outlets in the first place or centralized sites like Metacritic. They always have been out of touch with the users especially if you look at this decade where they can easily be bought and paid for where the users tend to disagree with as a whole. The best course of action is to get away from any sites that are connected to Metacritic and give it to he hands of users who actually enjoy these kinds of games, have them review it and give criticism than have an outlet who hates anything that is not a movie game at the start and will review it poorly because the graphics are more important to them or complains about fanservice and things toned down behind the scenes for good reviews. These are the places which should not be given a review copy in the first place and do not have the users interest or Japan’s interests at heart.

Also the comment about what foreigners and Japanese people like is not really a good point. This has always been a fallacy due to the fact they trust gaming journalists who are against the users interests in the West and are only in gaming due to it’s popularity. But the users know this, in Japan they do not and every gaming corporation bows down before them.

Over there Japanese gaming Journalists actually do like games and play them in the mainstream and niche areas. Here in the mainstream it’s just nepotism of people who are family and know each other a friend of a friend. While the users are the genuine fans that will surprise you with their knowledge and understanding of games and their appreciation for them.

Japan needs to change its opinions in the gaming industry as a whole otherwise it risks losing users in favor of Mainstream reviews.

By: RamblePak64

RamblePak64 — Mon, 01 Apr 2024 12:06:38 +0000

I think part of it has to do with unfair comparisons and expectations. For example, in regards to time period, YouTube reviewer SkillUp observed that it was a similar time period as last year’s Like a Dragon: Ishin!!, which has a “more colorful” cast of characters and manner of story-telling. It’s a bit of an unfair comparison since the two are going for different tones. Similarly, I’ve seen people go in expecting, as noted, Ghost of Tsushima, but finding it’s less focused on a vibrant open-world and more on a more challenging combat.

In other words, it seems a lot of critics are knocking it down a notch more for what it’s not than what it is.

Either way, maybe Japanese players will start looking to user reviews as well, as is what many players in the West are focusing on more.