10/10s are only meaningful if they're rare. It seems like you're just letting fanboys/fangirls review their dream game and allowing that to enter into the ranks of the perfect scores. When the past month or so have resulted in 3 perfect scores, and over games that have dubious merits, there is something seriously wrong with your reviewing system, and nobody will take them seriously anymore.
@boom4real: I loved P5, but I also recognised it's biggest flaw was the exhaustive pacing of the content, with a main story that is so bogged down by the details that you simply stopped caring about the characters and story towards the end. P5 Royal doubles down on this concept and makes it even worse.
If you loved the insane amount of forced content in P5, you'll definitely love Royal, however, my opinion of a 10/10 game is that it's a game that can reach the masses, or improves significantly on the original/predecessor. Royal was designed specifically for the hardcore fans.
FF7 Remake is controversial because of how the game is structured as a multi part story. To award a 10/10 to a game with an incomplete story, and using inane arguments like "well, it's complete if you view from a certain perspective", is very controversial and deserves criticism.
The gameplay mechanics, writing, visuals and music appear to be top tier, so I can certainly understand why someone would want to give this a 10/10, but it's totally marred by the fact the multi part strategy is SE trying to fleece us much as possible, not because it's necessary, but because they can.
@masato_indou: Content wise, FF7 was standard RPG fare for its time and is actually contant-bare for today's standards - a standard playthrough is 25-40 hours. Compare it with any AAA RPG these days and it pales in comparison (barely any side content).
If they were purely remaking the original, it can be easily done as a single release and they would even have to add in extra side content just to keep the playtime above 40 hours.
End of the day, when the final product(s) come out, we can see if it was worth splitting it into parts (whether or not corners were still cut)
My concern has nothing to do with this. This is a ploy to force gamers to spend more money they need would otherwise in order to get the full story.
FF games are generally standalone releases, with complete stories. This will mark first time in the franchise's history that we have to play through multiple full length games to get the full story. So you can't just get away with playing the first release, because the story is incomplete. It's episodic gaming at its worst.
Any creative justification for this is nonsense and is just there to mask what is simply an exercise in profit maximisation. If this was EA producing the game and it being any other franchise, we'd all be up in arms about it. But our love for FF7 is blinding us from the corporate greed at play here.
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