Nintendogs gets Famitsu 40/40 perfect score

[Teasy]

No idea why the other thread was locked other then the fact that Evil Cloud had posted it in the console forum. So it can continue here.

Vysez

Not the developer, but the publisher. And they don't give a perfect score to all the games they ever review, that's true.
But wouldn't the publisher input be a little too obvious, if they did give 10/10/10/10 to all the games?

So your saying that all the publishers work together in spreading out their made up review scores so the public don't catch on? If publishers could just make their own scores then there would be a lot more then five 100%'s and very few games would ever get an average to bad score. Also Nintendo certainly wouldn't have two slots in the five either.. Common, no matter how much you dislike Famitsu or how bad you think they are this just doesn't make any sense.

What should we believe? That publishers made up these perfect scores for their own games? Or that some reviewers just might have thought that four of the best games ever released (according to just about every reviewer going) were good enough for a perfect score?

 

[PC-Engine]

It was locked because Deathknight was trolling.

 

[Teasy]

Ok, well lets just leave all that out of this thread then.

 

[London Geezer]

Woah... I only heard about this game once. This sounds good!

 

[Teasy]

I saw the game being played by a Nintendo rep at GDC. The rep was playing with his dog with the stylus, throwing a tennis ball around, tapping on the screen to call the dog back. Then at one point instead of tapping on the screen to get the dogs attention he just called the dog by its name and it came over to the screen!

Im not sure if its my kind of game, but the more I see and hear about it the more I'm interested (especially the voice recognition).

 

[Farid]

Teasy, I think that you misread my posts as some sort of attack against this game, Nintendogs.
My posts were only about Famitsu editorial stance.

Now that said, I never said publishers do write the reviews for their own games. I said that publishers had an input in every reviews before theirs publication, which make Famistu reviews hardly interesting in most cases (e.g: Blinx 2 scored 8/9/8/8; True Crime got 8/8/9/9)
The corollary of the fact that publisher have an input, is that the actual reviewer also have an input, logically.

A 10/10/10/10 is a rare thing, which means that the reviewers, surely, really loved the game. I'm not denying it. Actually, I'm not even discussing it.

 

[Teasy]

Ok, it just seemed like you were agreeing with passerby that no review score from Famitsu is worth looking at, not even perfect scores. Which doesn't make sense to me, more because of the other four games reviewed then Nintendogs (since I have no frame of reference for Nintendogs). But if you didn't mean that then no problem

 

[PC-Engine]

I'm shocked at the perfect score.

 

[Teasy]

New Nintendogs Review:

http://www.honestgamers.com/systems/content.php?console_id=52&review_id=3679

 

[Blade]

It's a surprising score, no doubt. The question is.. was it Famitsu or Famitsu's Nintendo/DS/GBA/whatever specific magazine?

What are the other 10/10's in Famitsu history.. anyway? OoT, Wind Waker, Soul Calibur, and Vagrant Story.. right?

 

[Teasy]

It was the multiplatform Famitsu, not the Nintendo edition.

What are the other 10/10's in Famitsu history.. anyway? OoT, Wind Waker, Soul Calibur, and Vagrant Story.. right?

Yeah that's them.