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Prestoff posted...

Would you say this about any AAA game that gets universal praise from critics though? I highly doubt it and the big reason for this is politics.

I'd play it safe and say yes, assume it applies to all. These are products at the end of the day and with these sky high budgets and multiyear development cycles, companies are going to want to do anything they can to recoup costs and post a profit, especially when they allocate marketing budgets almost the size of their development budgets.

You can still get a general feeling by looking at what the players have to say and if they align with the reviewers. For instance, Breath of the Wild has had unanimous praise all around and in addition, we've had numerous gameplay footage and people getting hyped off of it, an incredible amount of support, funding, and interest in developing a Wii U emulator for the PC just to play it, and people talk positively about it to this day. The scoring awarded may be debatable, but it is an organic critically acclaimed game. It's safe to say that the reviewers weren't going overboard with their praise of BotW even with the Switch's (and subsequently Nintendo's) lifeline riding on its success.

The main point I want to get across is to not hold professional reviewers to a higher standard than literally any other gamer opinion. Given how they're paid to pump out new content as much as possible and as rapidly as possible and there's a legitimate threat of being blacklisted, you can be sure they can't be totally honest about their time playing the game. If you have personalities you trust, then go for it, but I say this for paid professionals of a consumer hobby product review in general.

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