Not tagging this spoiler cause fuck TERFs, don't buy the game, uphold TC69 Thought etc. Have gotten this all from the above article and reviews that support it.
Yep, anti-semitic, slave-owning, Protocols of Zion plagiarising, let's join the anti-goblin pogrom game.
Yes the MacGuffin unambiguously belongs to the Goblins, who have a labour theory of ownership. No you can't join the Goblins. Yes you kill a bunch of them. Yes, there is a fucking quisling that's seen as good actually. Yes, every teacher thinks fighting the goblins is a good thing, despite a few token missions that apparently show how oppressed they are.
No, you never critique that this and every other aspect of the wizard world might be a bad thing.
I am once again calling for the House Elves to rise up, slit every slaver-wizard throat in Hogwarts, and place their heads on pikes outside the entrance as a warning to the others.
Don't. Buy. The TERF. Game.
I don’t get why it’s reviewing well. Maybe it’s just that I don’t interact with the typical Harry Potter consumer, but aside from the horrible antisemitism and transphobia, from all the leaked footage the game looks bad. You just spam the same attacks over and over like your shooting a Star Wars blaster until their health bar runs out.
Review scores are largely payed for. They might as well just be glorified advertisers.
Then Forspoken would've reviewed quite well, Square Enix is not lacking advertising funds
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That's it. The whole point of game is to be a nostalgia trip, and so long as everything else is passable, it will sell well and review well. Nostalgia is a very powerful emotion.
For a far less problematic example, the point of the horizon zero dawn games is basically to be a tech demonstrator and show off the cool new graphics on Sony's latest PlayStation. Doesn't matter that everything else is average, it will review and sell well.
I've only seen some footage of gameplay and cutscenes of the Horizon series, and that was the impression I got of them. There's something I find just so overwhelmingly boring about its aesthetic, no scratch that, its everything, like someone just fed a concept to an AI and this is what it shat out
I played the first game. I was so surprised at how they made riding robot dinosaurs so boring.
Though it's great for what it is. And I had fun once I readjusted my mindset, because yes, the graphics are amazing
The explanation for why the robot dinosaur world is the way it is was pretty cool in the first game. Don't know how much the world building is expanded in the second one