Love all these games but enjoyed God Hand more than the best entries of these series.
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Shinji Mikami was upset about IGN's 3/10 for God Hand and lamented that it might have ruined his career
- Thread starter Dreamboum
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I'm genuinely not understanding the problem here. Is it because of some perceived idea that it's not "professional"? Does a person need a monocle and a smoking jacket before they can be trusted?
It's a meaningless statement that doesn't tell me anything I actually need to know.
Which is why... there's a whole, full-length, 1000+ word review you can read? If all you're doing is glancing at the blurb next to the number then of course you're not going to get any context.
That's the thing. The whole review, from the score to the summary, is problematic. It's not impossible or even remotely difficult to criticize God Hand in a thoughtful and well-supported matter. The juvenile language used in the blurb is just the icing on the cake.
So... like I said, a smoking jacket and a monocle.
You can say something "is shit" or you can say something "is bad" and just because one review uses "shit" doesn't mean the opinion is any less valid. Alternatively, using a thesaurus when writing doesn't make one's opinion more correct just because they used more complicated words to say it.
I get it. You don't agree with the guy. I don't really agree with him, either. But don't grasp at straws as a way to justify a flimsy excuse to invalidate his opinion. If he didn't have fun playing God Hand, then he didn't have fun. It's not the end of the world. And it certainly wasn't the end of Shinji Mikami's career.
It's a shame what happened to Clover, but I guess in the end it turned out well for most of the developers, with PlatinumGames and Tango Gameworks becoming studios creating quality titles. I haven't tried God Hand myself, but I'm very much intrigued by it. If nothing else, Mikami and the rest at Clover left a legacy behind that can only be matched by very few developers.
Without a doubt one of the most meaningless comments I've seen today
Even in this thread, you see one of the problems with reviews in the medium (you see it with some film genres, but it's pervasive among games). Some people have a hard time separating their personal feelings about a game from review scores, as if review scores are some kind of concrete objective measure of quality and a bad or critical score is an attack on their opinion. In sum and substance, the attitude comes across it can't be a X/10 because I think it's 10/10. Combine that with the notion that certain games "deserve" certain scores, and you get a ceaseless mix of resentment and validation and reactionary indignation. Crackdown 3 was the most recent example of that cycle
I mean, this is literally a post in this thread, 13 years after the fact
I mean, this is literally a post in this thread, 13 years after the fact
Sadly the best option is to play the PS2 original. After that, the PS2 Classics version on PS3 is also acceptable (but has minor framerate issues), third option is to tweet at Capcom to do a remaster.
The game of the same name on Steam is a different game.
And sometimes even hyperbolic overreaction bordering on satire.
Okay, thanks. Looks like I won't get a chance to try it then. Unless there is a PS2 Classic that releases with God Hand. LOL!
Most people who'd say something like "In what universe is this a 3/10?" abou their work, I'd consider clueless arrogant twits, but Mikami is right on the money.
Without a doubt one of the most pointless replies I've seen today.
I actually didn't enjoy God Hand, either, so the author's opinion is closer to mine. I've also personally chatted with Mikami about God Hand itself and had the opportunity to tell him why I couldn't get into the game. I also heard from him directly, of course.
However, I will not hand-wave subpar writing and journalism, especially from what was pretty much the top gaming media outlet at the time and may still be today, depending on the metrics used to measure. It's a bad look and doesn't deserve to be taken seriously when there are other more eloquent and meaningful ways to express a viewpoint that's actually helpful in the end. Your fixation on word choice is missing the point entirely.
Guys, what I'm saying is that a single negative review for a movie isn't treated as a big deal. There were critics that disliked even instant classics like The Godfather, but no one remembers who gave them or why because critics are allowed to have different opinions. Gaming is weird, and our attitude towards reviews is unhealthy.
if mikami was that worried over one review, then he should've concentrated on making the game good to begin with
tomato, tomahto
That babies game God Hand comparison image never made sense. They are entirely different games, so the scores don't mean the same thing in this regard.
I think my problem with the review is that he didn't really got that far into it. In the first version of the review he stated that he only got to stage 2 before quitting, but got removed soon after people got notice of it. That's basically like reviewing Pokemon after defeating the first gym.
People really don't "get" Godhand and it's depressing. Watch the Best Friends LP if you want to see what the game is really about.
I haven't played this game yet but I want to say that sometimes the best of games are just ones that won't resonate with the mainstream audience and honestly that's fine.
Def will check it out someday.
Oh I "get" god hand, it just sucks for reasons already discussed.