It feels like Gamestop must have gotten a pre-release version with some extra issues that hadn't been stomped out yet, and while I can't fault them for reviewing the version they got... its not the version anyone else is going to play... making their review completely worthless.
Adjusted Gamestop review:
Didn't have any audio issues at all. +1
Had no problems with the puzzles at all. +1
The Combat wasn't that bad. +1
Updated score: 7/10
I think that makes much more sense.
P.S. I'm not even sure what the reviewer means by "A late twist feels yanked out of an already-existing horror game", in the review they say: "I did witness a jarring sequence near the end where it so plainly and brazenly pulls a plot detail from another major horror game that I found it hard to imagine how it got through editing. You can't just repeat another game's twist, can you? Alone in the Dark suggests you can."
Honestly I have no idea to what they are referring. I can only think of two possibilities but neither is actually anything like the above quote.
This is the problem with professional critics, they're so jaded that almost anything can become a negative for almost no reason at all.
I honestly do not know what is wrong with Star Wars fans... y'all is worse than Karens any day.
One little thing doesn't match your wet dream expectations and you go nuclear, and unbelievably there's enough of you to actually make the studio notice, but all you've actually done is ruin a lot of potential projects that probably would have been good.
@xantufrog: It's like Doom (2016), so over hyped that it never stood a chance at critical acclaim. Doesn't mean that it's not going to be my game of the year or possibly game of the decade, or even new GOAT. Reading her review without thinking about the number attached to it, made me MORE excited to play and not just in an "I'm gonna prove you wrong, way".
@DamageIncM: The play it safe 7 is what is cowardly or political. There isn't anything ballsy or going against the norm by giving something a mid-line score. A 10 or 5 is ballsy.
From the way her review reads I think she should have given it a 5 or 6 and I felt like she laid up because she knew it would enrage people too much... where as a 7 would still piss people off in both directions but not as much... that's how its political.
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