Sept 11 2007
You might have heard about Lair being a bit rubs. You might have read our 5/10 review. And you might also have seen that Sony and developer Factor 5 weren't pleased - reacting to the many paltry scores by issuing a 'reviewer's guide' to the tragically disappointing dragon-riding actioner. To which your response may have been "What the f-!?".
We weren't so surprised. After all, it was Sony who once conjured up a make-believe film critic to heap praise on its own films. And it's Sony who runs a so-called 'semi-official' games blog to stoke the hype around its own console. Producing a document that explains how to train yourself to "eat shit and like it" (as observed by PennyArcade's Tycho Brahe) is presumably just another day in Sony's marketing department.
The surprising thing is that no one else has ever been quite so brazen about why reviewers have 'got it wrong'. If the publishers of the following much-hypedgames had issued the instructions below on how to play each game 'correctly', we might have been more forgiving. Well, perhaps not...
Sonic The Hedgehog | PS3, Xbox 360
Metacritic score: 43 out of 100
The Reviewer's Guide:
The Reviewer's Guide:
The Reviewer's Guide:
This new indie D&D campaign setting brings Studio Ghibli and Zelda: Breath of the Wild aesthetics and worldbuilding to the tabletop RPG, and I'm already scheming hard as a DM
I've seen enough: Assassin's Creed Shadows will beat Black Flag as my favorite AC game as Ubisoft says it lets you "Naruto run" as the "fastest Assassin" it's ever made
