What?? It scored 9s and 8s from other outlets. How is that a bad game?
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EDGE Magazine #356 review scores - Hitman 3, The Medium, Little Nightmares 2, Persona 5 Strikers and more
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What?? It scored 9s and 8s from other outlets. How is that a bad game?
71 at MC (not really 9s) and people are finally starting to talk about that problematic story and ending. Plus really long list of problems people have with it but i wont lose any more time on this.
Oooof. Bad take when you don't even realise that a 5 from Edge is average and not 'bad'.
It is divisive. A bad game is low scores across the board. Even at 71, the game is not bad, that's considered above average. Sorry you didn't like it.
Then...why are you posting about the score Edge gave a game in an Edge thread if you don't care?
Or a lot of people in the case of Hitman 3.
Opinions are like assholes etc
I don't have the exact average on me (I think Open/Meta used to have it), but at least eyeballing for 2020, 71 is slightly under the average. Few games score lower than 60. It's not the same as movie reviews, the scale is almost entirely 6 to 10. Only 29 out of 753 games on Metacritic scored less than 50.
Not to you and me, obviously, but some people see it like that.
Hitman 3 absolutely deserves it.
I'm still playing it to the point that my girlfriend is asking how I'm still playing it so much.
Definitely the game to beat for me this year and will certainly end up on my list
I'm still playing it to the point that my girlfriend is asking how I'm still playing it so much.
Definitely the game to beat for me this year and will certainly end up on my list
Fair score for The Medium. In my opinion, the only redeeming qualities of the game are the well-recreated atmosphere and the amazing soundtrack by Akira Yamaoka & Arkadiusz Reikowski, everything else is a bit shit and goes from mediocre to bad. To think that the Bloober Team may be developing a new Silent Hill is... disconcerting. 😕
They are a very small team with around 8 million budget for The Medium. They are talented, but they cant create miracles either. For a SH game, they would need to expand and obviously a financial injection.
Remember Edge uses the whole 1-10 scale. Honestly 6 is more than appropriate for P5S, and I say that as a Persona fan.
Even with all the additions to the formula, it still is a Dynasty game at its core. I'd say take with a grain of salt every hyperbolic glowing take you read these first days, as everyone seems to be in the honeymoon phase.
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Yeah. My experience with The Medium has been pretty miserable to be honest. Starting with a gamebreaking bug during one of the puzzles (if you interact with the chairs first in the conference room puzzle, your playthrough is fucked.) Such a fucking remedial error on the developers part that they really aren't a safe pair of hands to handle a franchise like Silent Hill.
I restarted the game and have now encountered several crashes in the section with the tenticles in the garden. Whats funny is that every time I restart, the character says to themselves, "This is getting tedious!" So true.
I did something similar on PocketMags when they also had a sale and every issue was only like €0.99.
Still haven't read through them all...
Oh man, that's pretty rad, I might take advantage
thanks for the heads up!
Y'all better get Olija. It's a cinematic action-platformer, so it sports that kind of storytelling but the character is more responsive than you expect from the likes of Another World.
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Hitman 2 getting the lowest score of the three is a surprise; I think it's the best one. I'd go 8-9-8 for the three, not 9-8-9.
Unless you're considering 3 to encompass the entire trilogy, in which case 3 deserves the best score. Having three great games interconnected under one roof like this is amazing.
Unless you're considering 3 to encompass the entire trilogy, in which case 3 deserves the best score. Having three great games interconnected under one roof like this is amazing.
Oh, from what i've read about Hitman 3 i would have guessed Edge would give it a lower rating 🤔
Just read the review to Gods Will Fall. Hearing how muscular the combat is and how it's not quite as difficult as other roguelites, with interesting stories about the gods, seems like a good follow-up after you're done with Hades. It's a contrast from other reviews and sounds intriguing enough to check out.
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Well it seems from reading the review that the narrative is the problem or at least the writing along with the execution of ideas. The more specific the game gets into the traumas and patriarchal abuse, it executes this with "lurid clichés and lumbering metaphors". Also Marianne "is a forgettable lead - alternatively maudlin and corny, with a very videogamey habit of thinking aloud". The dual world mechanic is "dull" because it's "overdependent on lock-and-key puzzles", but the main praise is for the environments. Although "the perspectives hinder navigation, leaving you fumbling around in the murk for interaction prompts".
"Bloober has missed something fundamental about Silent Hill's dimensional split, which existed more for the sake of narrative than puzzles. By foregrounding travel between dimensions as a capital-M mechanic, The Medium robs the idea of intrigue."
"It's admirable that Bloober has brought this long-nursed project to fruition, and if you're desperate for another Silent Hill, the environments may be worth a visit. All the same, this is more of an evolutionary vestige than a healthy new growth. Bloober might have done better to let it die."
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