Bayonetta 2 gets a 10/10 from Gamespot
That would be impressive if it weren’t fucking Gamespot that dolled out the arbitrary numerical value. I’m not a fan of arbitrary values assigned to games. Video games aren’t a one dimensional experience so a strict numbers system doesn’t work. There’s too much of the subjective vs the objective that goes into a game. A game can have a horrible story but be so much fun the story is meaningless… Such a game wouldn’t be a 10 out of 10 because it didn’t perfect everything.
I got on a bit of a tangeant there. I’m less of a fan of Gamespot, a decidedly bought and paid for reviews site. They review games favorably that play the politics of reviewing. Fuck them, fuck the review, and fuck other asshole sites parroting them.
Oh look on that list is Chrono Cross (Not Trigger. Cross. The worse one). And fucking Tony Hawk 3? Eat my gigantic Irish dick.
Here’s my arbitrary list of games that score ten imaginary points out of ten. It’s a short list because literally three games in the last ten years have gotten it perfect.
Batman: Arkham Asylum
The Last of Us
Uncharted 2
If I were to assign a value to Bayonetta it would be a 5. The gameplay is great. Period. But gameplay is exactly one half of a game. The visuals are bad. The character design is offensive. The cutscenes are torturous. Voice acting? Don’t make me come up with another synonym for bad. Point is… everything apart from the gameplay is terrible in that game. There is no way a game using that same formula is perfect. It might be good, even great, but not fucking perfect.
Fuck you Gamespot. You are the poison they talk about ruining gaming journalism.