Readers can detect when the review isn't honestly in contact with the actual game. It's not the score that's the problem, it's that the text is fulll of indications that the review is in bad faith.

It's not in Gamespot's long term interest to pursue this style of article.

@ad1997_1: The difference of opinion isn't the problem. It's that the reviewer didn't engage with the genre honestly. .

@benjals: It's not the number, it's the bad faith review.

She's broadcasting that she wants to get hired obviously.

@pablo1994: Depressing.

It sounds like the reviewer brought some baggage to the review.

The review should correct for this as much as possible, not integrate it into the text.

The reason is that the review then becomes editorialised, and everyone suffers.

Seems about what they could get away with.

" It is so full of things to buy, to do, to see, and yet so much of it doesn't feel essential"

Yeah, that's the open world genre.

@lurker_: Youre pretending not to notice self evident things in the game, that Snake is not short.

@Seymour47: It's not an objection, it's an observation.