Fixing Reviews: The Lying Score

Review scores are tricky; they are not for everybody. For a scoring system to have any worth, it must have consistency. Not everybody is ready for that. You can’t call a game a master-piece only to call it a disappointment at the end of the year. Review scores must also be honest and, believe it or not, even less people are ready for that. Here, I’m not talking about the flawed notion some outlets have that the average between 0 and 10 is 8. That’s just being mathematically deprived. Instead, I’m talking about Metacritic, Amazon, App Stores and whatever other place that aggregates scores from users in order to present a single information: that the cosmos has voted and decided that game X is a 8.6 out of 10.

Guess what? They are all lying.

They are lying because they encourage users to lie in their reviews. Yes, that means the liar is ultimately you, Mr. User.

SUPER MARIO GALAXY 2 – The Double Dip Awful Edition Review

SUPER MARIO GALAXY 2 is a videogame developed and published by Nintendo for the Nintendo Wii. It was directed by KOICHI HAYASHIDA. I’ve played Super Mario Galaxy 2 from start to finish. That was probably the mistake, as the more

Super Mario Galaxy 2 – Review

Super Mario Galaxy 2 is a game developed by Nintendo EAD Tokyo and published by Nintendo for the Nintendo Wii. It was directed by Kōichi Hayashida and produced by some guys not named Shigeru Miyamoto, along with Shigeru Miyamoto. My