It's worth the wait: Smash Bros. Brawl scores 40/40 from Famitsu

Excellent...

It definitely makes me happy.

Now just put Megaman in the damn game I'm gonna camp out to buy this game on Day 1!

so if the game had scored 39/40, it would have somehow been acceptable? It was going to score high, it's going to be bought regardless of its score. Famitsu is simply acknowledging it's game play and feature set. Online play, level editor, sharing features, shitload of extras, 40+ characters, and at least some graphical improvement. Perhaps it's more balanced now too. Until you play the game, save your judgment on the perfect score. Regardless if its perfect or not, it's going to provide me countless hours of entertainment, and so I can't wait to get it.

I think people need to remember that there is no such thing as a perfect score. There's always a frame rate hiccup somewhere, there's always one minor glitch here, or one level that wasn't as engaging as the rest. Human beings aren't perfect, and therefore there products can't be perfect either. Should the 10 then become some relic that never gets used? Of course not; it should merely be an extreme merit to recognize the greatness of a game. There's never going to be a 'perfect game'. Put the philosophical mumbo-jumbo away.


As for Brawl, I won"t know it until I play it, but I do have a feeling that its well deserved. Seems to combine everything I loved from the past games with some new, pretty amazing, stuff added for good measure. March (I hate delays...) can't come soon enough.

I love how people are saying stuff about famitsu losing credibility or whatever because they gave out a perfect score. they have been going weekly since 1986 and have given only SEVEN perfect scores.

the famitsu history of perfect scores raises a serious if not totally confounding question...

Why isn't there a sequel to Vagrant Story? why must one of the best games evar be so overlooked and not be represented in one of the nextgen consoles. whytf didn't you bastards buy the first one when it came out, you jerks.

http://kotaku.com/gaming/famitsu/famitsu-for-beginners-222494.php

If this article by kotaku is to be believed Famistu reviews are completely worthless. Just put that up their for the people fighting over the Famitsu reviews.

*facepalm*

You're kidding me. We're still on this issue of scoring?

Okay I guess it's time for me to repeat shit again.

1.opinion, opinions, opinions fucking opinions. They tend to differ depending on the person. Honestly why do we put all reviewers on this type of pedestal where what they say is 100% fact and used to brag about our games? I never understood that. What makes them so special? I mean me telling you if I think a game would be the exact same thing than if someone from IGN said something about the same game. the only difference is that they get paid. And just because they say something does not mean it's 100% fact. Because remember, all people have different standards based on their experiences. Reviewers are no different.

2. Now on this issue of perfection, people need to realize that, once again, it differs from person to person. It's the equivalent of if someone said they had the perfect sandwich, or watched the perfect movie. Just because they think it's perfect doesn't mean everyone else will. So why should that differ with Famitsu. Since when are they the official word on gaming in japan and whatever they say is law? I bet you that if you wanted to(and could speak Japanese), you could ask any other employee at famitsu(besides the four people reviewing the game) and they'd probably think differently on the game too.

In conclusion: All reviewing is just the author giving his/her own opinion on a certain topic, nothing more and nothing less. They should only be used as guides to help make your own decisions. It just enrages me when I see people hiding behind certain magazines and saying that they're right and every body is wrong. That's not what they are for.

Sorry for the long rant. Anyways, yeah can't wait for Super Smash: Brawl.

After what Famitsu gave Lair, I'm gonna have to rent and try first (not a fan of multiplayer designed games, so that would have happened anyway).

Famitsu gives an Overhyped nintendo game a perfect score!?!

Man what a shocker....

Kane and Lynch: Famitsu edition?
Gimme a break!

Why are most people like "Eh" when most other magazines and websites give out 50 perfect scores a year to "Average" "Half-Decent" and "Mostly competent" games okay, but the minute Famitsu gives out a few too many perfect scores, they're instantly ragged on?
"BUT MY DUN CALL OF THAT THUR DUTY DESERVED IT DURRRKA!"
"UNF, AN BIOSHOCK"

If you ask me, most people just see the scores they want to see, and get very mad at the ones they don't want to.
If you ASK me, every single review from any site, you have to take a certain degree of points away (Well, in some cases, in the west, if it's a Japanese RPG, you may have to add points. Or any game with a strong story emphasis or Japanese pop music. Historically, western reviewers hate those... most of the time.)

It works sort of like this:
10 = 8.8
9 = 8.7
8 = 7.0
7 = 5.0
6 = 2.0
2 = 0.0
1 = 0.0

That's not what I PERSONALLY think scores mean, but that's what all journalists have made them mean. They pander to their readers.
Which leads them to the following decisions:
If a game is really good, but not super good, they've got to rate it abnormally high (See: Influx of 8.0's in recent years), else their mentally retarded drooling idiot readers won't catch the hint that a game is good, because rating it a 6.0 or a 7.0 would MAKE THEM go "DAHHH THIS AINT GOOD, BRAIN HURT FIZZLES"
and so the curbing begins.

Then you have to pander to those millions of readers that bought the hot games. You can't rate those low. Can you imagine how many angry readers there'd be if IGN or GameSpot gave Halo 3 a 8.0? A lot.


The ideal solution would be to entirely eliminate numerical reviews, and force people to decide from the context of the damned written words, but sadly, considering the high amount of mentally handicapped, lazy, barely alive mental midgets who can barely contain the drool that's pouring out from the bottom of their lip, that'll never be common place.

Also to people saying Famitsu gave out a 40 too easily:

Keep in mind that it's four people reviewing it. Imagine you were on the review team.

YOU: Okay guys, I played the game, it's friggin awesome. My vote's a 10.
A: Oh, shit.
B. Dammit.
YOU: What?
A: Well, B, C, and myself all gave it a 10 also.
YOU: So what? Cool, we agree.
B: No, dude. That means it's 40/40. People will accuse us of going too easy on the game.
YOU: Well shit, I'm not changing my score. Why don't one or two of you change yours to a 9?
C: No, why don't you?
YOU: Fuck you guys; I'm keeping my 10.
A: Fine.
B: Fine!
C: Fine...

So you see, it's not the same as when a single dude gives a game, say, an 8.8. It's 4 people. 4 opinions. It is bound to happen that their opinions coincide and cause a perfect score, unless you think they SHOULD change individual scores just to prevent the total from being a certain number.

Of course it got 40/40, Wii is the Tom Brady of consoles, it never loses.

Famitsu scores,lol.

But I really want to play this so are there any spoilers about new characters.

When I was checking Masahiro Sakurai's wiki page it told me he does a column for Famitsu. I in no way imply he bribed or convinced them to rate higher.

I pointed that out earlier too... So what, are they supposed to change all the 40/40's to 39/40's or something because nothing is perfect? Doesn't make any sense (the logic does, but the practicality doesn't).
Also, on top of Lairs relatively high review, they gave Zelda: the Phantom Hourglass a 39/40... That’s awfully close to 40/40, and from what I've heard, the game is a mediocre Zelda game at best.

That last comment was @WiNG btw...
Joyastiq comment system FTW!

:O




....I did NOT see this coming.