It currently sits at an 84 on metacritic. The mainstream review sites have predictably sold out, and the ranks of the “professional reviewers” have been wildly inflated with a large number of extremely small and niche progressive websites giving insanely over-the-top praise.
But the real tell is how many fairly big YouTube reviewers didn’t receive review keys at all. Fextralife and ACG were both denied. And some of the ones who did get keys, like SkillUp and Matty, have absolutely shit all over the game. It’s not even close.
Watching SU’s painstakingly well-sourced video review after glancing through metacritic really shows the insane gaslighting that is still possible in the written media space. Also, the number of recognized pro reviewers who obsess over leftist politics on gaming has only grown.
Edit: the IGN reviewer who gave it a 9/10 is a tranny.
Edit again: I paged through a few more critic reviews, and I can honestly say I’ve never even heard of at least half these websites. I think big publishers are directly funding overly positive fly-by-night game review websites in order to manipulate metacritic. These are tiny ass websites with next to no readership, and yet they’ve received review codes ahead of massive YouTubers with millions of subs? It’s obvious bullshit.
I saw this scathing review which basically highlights how bad the character models look, the awful writing, and the monotonous gameplay. The only praise they have is that the environments visually look good (but even then the level design sucks).
Some easily influenced normies might pick up the game because it's Dragon Age and it 'seems' like it's getting good early reviews, but I don't expect anybody to tell their friends or say on social media positive word of mouth compared to something like Baldurs Gate 3.
Bioware is dead. We knew that for a long time, but soon it's going to be official.
Good video. I like how he's picking out the weird design decisions on the art style and facial models. It hit me earlier that once one of these DEI consultancy companies get involved, you can now spot it instantly. It's becoming its own cliche art style where it's not realistic; a kind of immature, forced, canny valley kind of universally bad character design.
Edit: "Every character interaction sounds like HR is in the room." OUCH
'Now i really wanted to like it' 'blalba I'm totally not a hater you guys' 'blabla I don't claim to be right it's just my opinion you guys'
What a fucking faggot. But i guesss it makes it more remarkable that such a reddit-preemptive-apologizer dares say its garbage.
He isn't called Shillup in some circles for no reason.
I just clicked on it hoping to get a decent review, as it's linked here. Then he literally starts of with a disclaimer, rambels a little about the game, straight back to an preemptive apology. I just closed the tab again, sry.