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FFXII Scores Max In Famitsu
Famitsu, the premiere Japanese videogame magazine, evidently really likes Final Fantasy XII. From the Insert Credit post: "Meanwhile, Final Fantasy XII has scored a perfect score of 40 -- all four reviewers scoring it 10 out of 10 -- from Japanese gaming bible Famitsu. It joins the club of five perfect-scoring games, one of which is a fighting game with a sequel that's better (Soul Calibur), two of which are Zelda games (Ocarina of Time and Wind Waker), and two of which (Nintendogs and Vagrant Story) didn't even make it onto Famitsu readers' top 100 list."
Wait, is this the same Famitsu that recently polled its readers about their favorite games, where the top 10 list included four Final Fantasy games and three DragonQuest games? The list that included every single Final Fantasy game except for FFXI?
Yeah, that really sounds like unbiased reporting there. Gee, a magazine that apparently has a hard-on for Square-Enix games rated the latest Square-Enix game perfect. That's almost as surprising as the Official PlayStation Magazine saying that the PlayStation port of a game is superior to the "lesser XBox version". It's almost as surprising as O'Reilly defending Republicans.
Wake me up when some relatively unbiased reviewers rate that game. I've played the demo, Square-Enix has a long way to go before I'll believe that the game is worth more than a coaster.
It joins the club of five perfect-scoring games, one of which is a fighting game with a sequel that's better (Soul Calibur)
Sure, if by "better" you mean "has a worse computer AI and more gimmicks." Not to say that SC2 is a bad game, but you'll find that there are many people out there that prefer the original as a technical fighter. Not to mention, of course, that reviewers are supposed to review games in the context of their competition -- the original SC blew everything in its generation and before it out of the water, but by the time SC2 came around, the rest of the genre had improved enough that it was a much closer competition.
Bear in mind that the above is only my opinion (which is really the whole point of reviews).
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I'm playing Dragon Quest 8 right now (fun game), and it came with a demo of FF12.
"Yech" is about the only word I can come up with for it. If that demo is an accurate representation of the final game, I want to know just how big a bribe it took to get the rating these reviewers gave it.
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Common knowledge amongst people who like to make shit up in their heads, maybe.
The whole reason anybody cares about Famitsu scores in the first place is because their reviews are famously accurate and impartial. They have a six-person review team (high and low score are thrown out, meaning a game that gets a 40 was rated 10/10 by at least 5 of those 6 reviewers) that are very highly regarded by the Japanese gaming public. The Japanese press isn't immune from payola, but Famitsu? You're treading on thin ice to imply that.
Side note: Don't turn into one of those guys that spreads lies about popular things you've barely even heard of before, just for the sake of seeing your own words on DA INTARWEBZ. It would be pathetic if most people cared, but since they don't, it's just annoying.