Phantom Blade Zero | Review Thread

[voke]

Every gaming journalist still clinging to a five star review scale deserves severe explosive diarrhea for the rest of their days.

People can have opinions. It's not an agenda. I'd definitely rate KCD2, LoP, and Castlevania much higher than a 6 though. Everything else I lowkey agree with.

Lost Soul Aside

You follow the zeitgeist too intensely, it flopped yes, but Im big into CaG games and I actually loved the gameplay here and put over 60 hours into it. Like feel as if LSA and NG4 were both overly slept on last year.

 

[Banana]

I’ll pick this up on sale in a few months. Too busy with FF Resonance and soon OOT.

 

[anonpuffs]

Looks like a great game but im feeling bored playing samurai games for now

Sekiro still the best special one

Wuxia heroes are not samurai

 

[saltyashell]

Its time Sony starts doing what some others are doing.

Set the review date 2 weeks before launch. Only give it to handful of reviewers before launch, not Eurogamer, IGN, Gamespot and so on.
Let them pay for it and review it after launch lol

The better tactic would be to copy Xbox and encourage that people create PS5 centric websites that review games. Xbox games can always count on a wave of guaranteed 10s from websites like "Somos Xbox"

 

[Yrassinad]

You follow the zeitgeist too intensely, it flopped yes, but Im big into CaG games and I actually loved the gameplay here and put over 60 hours into it. Like feel as if LSA and NG4 were both overly slept on last year.

Nothing about the game looked good to me, and the reviews didn't help it. You liking the game makes you the outlier and I don't think me saying the game was a bad pick to champion and would interrupt a "streak" of otherwise picking good ones is saying anything factually incorrect.

The better tactic would be to copy Xbox and encourage that people create PS5 centric websites that review games. Xbox games can always count on a wave of guaranteed 10s from websites like "Somos Xbox"

I do find it fascinating how for Xbox and Nintendo multiple websites can sprout up dedicated just to those platforms that are naturally biased towards them but there are none of them for PlayStation. I guess when you're just talking about the diehards, maybe those platforms actually have bigger die hard fanbases that make such sites sustainable despite PS being a bigger platform?

 

[anonpuffs]

Nothing about the game looked good to me, and the reviews didn't help it. You liking the game makes you the outlier and I don't think me saying the game was a bad pick to champion and would interrupt a "streak" of otherwise picking good ones is saying anything factually incorrect.




I do find it fascinating how for Xbox and Nintendo multiple websites can sprout up dedicated just to those platforms that are naturally biased towards them but there are none of them for PlayStation. I guess when you're just talking about the diehards, maybe those platforms actually have bigger die hard fanbases that make such sites sustainable despite PS being a bigger platform?

Xbox in particular funds their "fan sites" probably out of their marketing budget and have been doing it for over a decade, maybe even since the beginning.

 

[Yrassinad]

Xbox in particular funds their "fan sites" probably out of their marketing budget and have been doing it for over a decade, maybe even since the beginning.

Maybe, but I don't think Nintendo is doing that and they still have Nintendo-dedicated sites.

 

[anonpuffs]

Maybe, but I don't think Nintendo is doing that and they still have Nintendo-dedicated sites.

No I don't think nintendo is the type of company to do something pathetic like that

 

[Johnic]

Any console footage? They've been avoiding it like the plague.

 

[Zzero]

This was a China Hero game, right? Its about time one of those actually hit.

 

[Danja]

Xbox in particular funds their "fan sites" probably out of their marketing budget and have been doing it for over a decade, maybe even since the beginning.

Kicked up a lot under the Peter Moore Administration as he was the one who fully brought in the fan boy was mentality into Xbox. He pubicly admitted he encouraged it

 

[Kokoloko]

Maybe, but I don't think Nintendo is doing that and they still have Nintendo-dedicated sites.

Again, stop comparing Nintendo to a company like MS who has been caught with bribing before and all sorts.
Nintendo never said they “encouraged” console warring. Microsoft has. What do you think microsoft means by it “encouraged” console warring? Where do you think it stops.

No1 is saying Nintendo is doing it, because Nintendo hasnt and been caught and fined for bribery like MICROSOFT the owner and creator of Xbox has.

Just like no1 finds Nintendo legends dodgy as fuck because they aren’t Bill Gates. Can you put 2 and 2 together, or even look past the number 1…

 

[Kokoloko]

The better tactic would be to copy Xbox and encourage that people create PS5 centric websites that review games. Xbox games can always count on a wave of guaranteed 10s from websites like "Somos Xbox"

I think they can deal without cheating. By just having normal reviewers do it before launch.

But why not both lol

 

[Thirty7ven]

Euro gamer lol clickbaiting because their site is in trouble

 

[Wraith Phantom]

I bought wolverine,control,onimusha & phantom blade . I haven't finished one or even downloaded blade & control. And theres the complete edition of tsushima. I got a month to get through them before GTA

 

[QuantumCringe]

Honestly was expecting low 80s. High 80s and a 90+ on opencritic is crazy for a studios first AAA.

These Asian devs are going to be dropping some real gems next gen. They’re just getting started.

Because they don't have woke mind virus

 

[Yobo]

They're just using a 5-star scale which means a 3/5 will translate to a 60. This is a flaw with Metacritic as much as Eurogamer. This is what Eurogamer explains is their criteria for a 3-star game:

3 Star reviews will range from lukewarm to even mostly positive, for the wide variety of games that just lack that next gear up. It might be a polished, well-functioning effort that doesn't do anything particularly interesting, a slightly uninspired year for a mostly great annualised series, or even a brilliant concept that ends up with mixed results in practice. Crucially, 3 stars should be seen as a middling, mixed, or positive-leaning review - it is not a negative or "bad" review.

This is the problem with their scale, 3 stars ranges from "lukewarm" to "mostly positive". If they used a 10-point scale like a normal outlet, they could give the "mostly positive game" something in the high 70s while the lukewarm game would be at 60.

It's a stupid scale for gaming
10 point scale for gaming has been established for years
5 points for books and movies

Eurogamer themselves used 10 point scale for their entire history. The change in scale is just a cynical clickbait change

 

[voke]

Because they don't have woke mind virus

Or because it’s a good game.

Swear woke is just the boogeyman for uneducated whites across the world

 

[QuantumCringe]

Or because it’s a good game.

Swear woke is just the boogeyman for uneducated whites across the world

Mmm I love being white
Thank you God

 

[Yurinka]

It's performing super well in the PS Store worldwide: