Smash Bros. Brawl Receives Perfect Score
Even more frustrating than the continual delays for many will be the fact that Smash Bros. Brawl is good. Games are often delayed due to need for polish and further development. Many games could have used a little longer in the studio before they were released, being full of bugs or problems that must be fixed via patch. It seems however that Smash Bros. Brawl is already doing quite well. Four different reviewers from Japanese weekly magazine Famitsu all gave the game a perfect 10/10 rating, which understandably is rare. All four reviewers mentioned that in addition to the excellence of the multiplayer battles, the single player mode is long and well-fleshed out.
January 16th, 2008 at 3:33 pm
Apparently Fumitsu rate games base on the public following for a game, they give high scores to games which have a large following. That’s just Japan style though, don’t rock the boat, keep everyone happy.
January 16th, 2008 at 11:51 pm
I can believe that, and if they gave it a one out of ten, meh. I KNOW the game is going to be amazing. It only makes sense if you have followed the series since last decade. I have already crowned it the best fighting game anyway, and I bet you there are at least 8 million people who will agree with me before year’s end.
January 17th, 2008 at 7:45 am
Maybe it’s a bit more likely that games Famitsu rates higher have a large following because, oh, I don’t know, they’re actually GOOD games? As far as Japan being guilty of a ‘keep everyone happy, don’t rock the boat’ mentality, I think that persists pretty much everywhere, especially here in the USA.
February 2nd, 2008 at 2:10 pm
[...] Brawl, known as Dojo in Japan, has sold 500,000 copies on launch day in Japan. The game received a perfect score of 40 from the famous Famitsu magazine, which has contributed to the hype and made the game in even more [...]