Famitsu: Pokemon Black & White DS Receive 40/40

Lol new Pokémon games suck every game should just be Blue and Red I don't know why they keep making new Pokémon games with different things in them and new battle mechanics they're so tired and outdated.

Nintendogs got 40/40, so most games deserves a top score anyway, according to Famitsu.

Pokemon Black and White will probably deserve it though.

( Edited 08.09.2010 14:48 by Marzy )

Glad to see that the Pokemon series is finally trying to not just be 'more of the same but refined'. Black and White do look amazing though I'm sad that it'll be another 4-5 years before we get proper 3DS 6th gen games.


That's not really a fair statement to make. You can't denounce their reviews/scores just because they saw Nintendogs differently to you. 4 individual reviewers liked it enough to give it a 10. I personally would have given it a 7.

They also gave New Super Mario Bros Wii 40/40. There's no way those two games deserve top scores, over the likes of Super Mario Galaxy.

I cannot take them seriously and their reviews/scores mean nothing to me.

Yeh I'm gonna side with Marzy here. In the past a 40/40 from Famitsu was a genuine sign of quality, but that's not always the case these days.

That said, I'd obviously rather it got a perfect score than half marks or whatever.
I personally can't wait for this game, although I am slightly cautious of being bitterly disappointed due to the large amount of hype. *cough* Twilight Princess *cough*

Reviews are only as good as the degree to which you agree with the reviewer.

In most case's, you dont know the reviewer personally, so a score is largely worthless. This is why I really dont like sites/magazines that dont tell WHO is reviewing.

If, on the other hand, you know that specific reviewer likes other stuff you like, you can trust their reviews a heck of a lot more.

And yes, this has been a commercial for a little site I worked on and no one tried I still believe its all true though.

Well Famitsu is slightly different in that it's not just the opinion of one review, it's the opinion of 4.

So for 4 people to give the game 10/10 is still pretty impressive, even if they did the same with the likes of Nintendogs.

The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time
Soulcalibur
Vagrant Story
The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker
Nintendogs
Final Fantasy XII
Super Smash Bros. Brawl
Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots
428: Fūsa Sareta Shibuya de
Dragon Quest IX: Sentinels of the Starry Skies
Monster Hunter Tri
Bayonetta
New Super Mario Bros. Wii
Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker
Pokémon Black and White

I don't know about you, but I wouldn't say that any of these games were of bad quality. Some may not be of your tastes but then again, you can't expect Famitsu to follow your way of thinking. I don't think Soul Calibur and Vagrant Story were anything special but appreciate that the Famitsu reviewers liked them.

Remember that the reviews are made up of 4 people each giving the game a score out of ten. If all 4 love it enough to give it a 10 each then that suddenly doesn't make it much more better than a game that just failed to fully impress one of the reviewers and receiving a 9.

NSMBW got:
10,10,10,10

SMG2 got:
10,10,9,9

I think people take the full out of 40 score too seriously. SMG2 got 2 perfect scores and two great 9s. The other 2 reviewers simply found more enjoyment out of NSMBWii despite Galaxy obviously being the game with higher production values (though the enjoyment one gets from either is completely down to opinion.)

( Edited 08.09.2010 17:15 by Ifrit XXII )

Most of the other games Famitsu gave a perfect score got perfect scores from various other sites too. As for stuff like Nintendogs, maybe they just found it to be a lot of fun and thus gave it a perfect score. I don't enjoy those kind of games at all and would probably rate it lower. And that Black and White are the first Pokémon games to receive a perfect score from them says something already, at least for me.

That aside, so far Black and White really look like they got it right this time, although it's a pity that they didn't wait for the 3DS powerhouse and made them the swan song of the DS instead.

( Edited 08.09.2010 21:36 by SirLink )

Nintendogs I can understand. Its not for everyone, but it was a significant release for quite a few reasons.

Its "New Super Mario Bros. Wii" scoring 40/40 but not Galaxy (1) thats utterly insane.

For that mater The Wind Waker scoring so high too, yet not Okami?



It helps.
Certainly makes it harder to get perfect scores.

Take this reasoning to the extream though, and that makes metacritic and gamerankings the best score's as they are averages of dozens of reviewers.

I'm not sure that gets closer to my own tastes really, it more just helps ensure those making dont have a huge bias for/again something.



( Edited 08.09.2010 22:17 by Darkflame )

Is it impossible for a review to be completely objective and thus, in a way, are obsolete. But they can give guidlines on what to expect and in that way can be good, but a score alone is pointless. Like God Hand has mostly terrible reviews, and God of War is constantly rated higher than Devil May Cry...and don't even get me started on Heavy Rain.

I'm not saying that there's bad games up there, just that some of them don't deserve a 10/10, let alone four separate reviewers giving it a 10/10.

Nintendogs, NSMB Wii and Monster Hunter Tri stand out on that list to me as games that didn't deserve the mark the received (there may be others, but I haven't played all of them).

Obviously I appreciate that different people have different opinions, but the point is that they HAVE different opinions, four of them in fact, and they ALL gave a game full marks. That should suggest an outstanding game, but just merely good.

Like I said before, I'd obviously prefer it to have a perfect score (the first for a pokemon game) than not, but it doesn't automatically mean that the game is amazing.

( Edited 09.09.2010 16:35 by Cheesing it up )

All of Famitsu's "perfect 40s" are high quality games. While I wouldn't agree that some games get 10s all around, there is no doubt that they are all great games.

Nintendogs was revolutionary at the time of its launch. There was never a game before it on a hand held that included such game play.

But anyways, their score of Pokemon B&W just got me a lot more excited for the games release in the US.

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Pokébeach ordered to take down Pokémon Black and White images by Nintendo Lawyers

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