Famitsu gives Smash Bros perfect score
Category: Wii, Posted: 01/16/2008 at 12:46PM CST by Andy Groen, Content Contributor
Make me a promise. Promise me that you'll read the entire article before you go running off screaming the praises of Smash Bros all over the internet. Deal? OK.
TheTanooki.com has gotten their hands on a scan of the latest issue of Japanese gaming magazine Famitsu. At the end of the SSBB review, a sea of hiragana, katakana, and kanji, we can discern four Arabic numbers. 10. 10. 10. 10.
A perfect score. The game will now join the ranks of only six other games in history to receive a perfect score from Famitsu: The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, Soulcalibur, Vagrant Story, The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker, Nintendogs, Final Fantasy XII, and, Super Smash Bros. Brawl. A distinguished list, to be sure.
Some will say that big name--big release games are reviewed by Famitsu with the reader in mind and that they take this into consideration when they review their games.
Whether this scenario is true or not is up for speculation, but in any event a perfect score of 40 is still an attention grabber no matter how you slice it.
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Just have to wait until March 9th...
Feel really bad for Europeans, they have it even worse than we do
Distinguished list?
I don't think Nintendogs was exactly "game of the year" material when it came out.
There are one or two dubious games on the perfect list, not least Nintendogs. Famitsu have been accused of being biased, often leaning scores on Square Enix games. Dirge of Cerberus should not have deserved even the 28/40 it got, and the delayed reveiw, so as not to detter gamers from buying it ¬_¬.
But in this case, I'm willing to trust them. The score reflects what everyone in the universe is thinking, and galaxy was a very, very good omen....
They're correct about soulcaliber, so they should be right about this game!
(And Nintendogs? I've never played it, but it dosen't seem like that would get a perfect score...)
Why is it so hard for Nintendogs to get a perfect score? As long as it achieves the goals it set out to achieve (a fun dog petting situation) then it deserved it's perfect score.
Jambo has a point despite his sarcasm. Nintendogs really was a perfect game for what the Japanese audience wanted at that time. As evidenced by the fact that it sold a bajmillion copies.
Nintendogs has no real flaws, and as far as a virtual pet goes, it's perfect. It looks great, it sounds and feels real, and it's more fun than a real pet (I have a neighbor girl who plays it, so I've had a little hands-on time)., and I'm sure that with all the rad-awesome that we've read about so far, Brawl has no excuse for being anything shy of perfect.
For a game to be perfect it needs to do a little more than entertain me. Perhaps it can wipe my arse after I drop the kids off at the pool.