I didn't find any thread on this, so my apologies if it already existed. I've been looking for a list on all eShop (non-VC or retail) games that have reviews on Metacritic. Since I didn't find any, I created this thread. Please feel free to add any info you find. There must be at least 4 review available for a game to be listed, due to the rules at Metacritic. Games with 80 or more appear in bold. Games between 75 and 79 appear in italics.
The format for each game is this: <Game_title> - Metacritic_score (positive-mixed-negative) Metacritic_Link_URL
1001 Spikes - 82 (4-1-0) Link
Abyss - 59 (0-5-1) Link
Another World: 20th Anniversary Edition - 73 (3-4-0) Link
Armillo - 72 (8-5-0) Link
Art Academy: SketchPad - 70 (1-3-0) Link Art of Balance - 83 (7-1-0) Link Bit.Trip Presents...Runner2: Future Legend of Rhythm Alien - 84 (16-2-0) Link
BLOK DROP U - 53 (0-4-3) Link
Bombing Bastards - 55 (0-4-0) Link Castlestorm - 83 (7-1-0) Link
Chasing Aurora - 64 (5-21-1) Link
The Cave - 72 (5-4-1) Link Child of Light - 83 (7-0-0) Link
Coaster Crazy Deluxe - 69 (1-3-0) Link Cloudberry Kingdom - 75 (5-3-0) Link
Cubemen 2 - 63 (1-7-0) Link
Dr. Luigi - 65 (9-27-2) Link DuckTales Remastered - 76 (8-2-0) Link Dungeons & Dragons: Chronicles of Mystara - 77 (4-3-0) Link Edge - 79 (6-3-0) Link
F1 Race Stars: Powered Up Edition - 61 (1-6-1) Link
Fist of the North Star: Ken's Rage 2 - 40 (0-2-2) Link
Gaiabreaker - 38 (0-1-3) Link
Giana Sisters: Twisted Dreams - 74 (2-3-0) Link
Gravity Badgers - 48 (0-3-4) Link Guacamelee! Super Turbo Championship Edition - 90 (9-0-0) Link
How to Survive - 55 (0-9-0) Link
Ice Cream Surfer - 55 (0-5-1) Link Knytt Underground - 76 (8-4-0) Link
Kung Fu Rabbit - 65 (4-9-1) Link
The Mysterious Cities of Gold: Secret Paths - 60 (1-4-2) Link
The Letter - 14 (0-0-4) Link Little Inferno - 79 (17-5-0) Link
Lone Survivor: The Director's Cut - 74 (2-2-0) Link
Master Reboot - 64 (0-5-0) Link Mighty Switch Force! Hyper Drive Edition - 80 (16-3-0) Link
Mighty Switch Force! 2 - 74 (3-2-0) Link
Monkey Pirates - 62 (1-5-0) Link Mutant Mudds Deluxe - 84 (6-1-0) Link
Nano Assault Neo - 71 (9-12-1) Link
NES Remix - 71 (21-11-2) Link
NES Remix 2 - 73 (20-16-0) Link
Pokemon Rumble U - 49 (0-16-6) Link
Poker Dice Solitaire Future - 55 (0-3-1) Link
Puddle - 70 (7-12-1) Link
Pure Chess - 61 (0-8-0) Link Pushmo World - 80 (30-7-0) Link RUSH - 77 (5-2-0) Link Scram Kitty and His Buddy on Rails - 79 (17-8-0) Link Shovel Knight - 88 (15-2-0) Link
Shut the Box - 46 (0-1-3) Link Spin the Bottle: Bumpie's Party - 75 (4-6-0) Link Stealth Inc. 2 - 83 (13-2-0)Link SteamWorld Dig - 83 (11-2-0) Link
Squids Odyssey - 68 (8-5-1) Link Star Wars Pinball - 83 (12-1-0) Link Stick it to the Man! - 80 (8-1-0) Link
Super Toy Cars - 57 (0-10-1) Link Swords and Soldiers HD 78 (8-2-0) Link
TNT Racers: Nitro Machines Edition - 62 (0-5-0) Link Teslagrad - 80 (11-3-0) Link Toki Tori 2 - 76 (15-12-0) Link Trine 2: Director's Cut - 84 (22-3-0) Link
Unepic - 71 (9-9-0) Link
Wii Sports Club - 68 (2-9-0) Link
Wooden Sen'SeY - 62 (2-12-1) Link XType Plus - 76 (5-2-0) Link
Zen Pinball 2 - 71 (2-3-0) Link
Adjusted Scram Kitty and Stick it to the Man!, based on the additional reviews. I also marked all games in the range of 75-79 with italics.
75-79 seems to be an awfully small, arbitrary range....
Why not use metacritic's own scale and put scores in the 75-89 range in italics, and everything from 90-100 in bold?
Edit: Nevermind the above - I just realized there aren't any eshop games above 89 anyways, so it wouldn't be worth the effort. Maybe extend the italic range to 70-79?
Edit: Nevermind the above - I just realized there aren't any eshop games above 89 anyways, so it wouldn't be worth the effort. Maybe extend the italic range to 70-79?
I selected the 75 level because that's the threshold for "Generally Favorable Reviews". With very few exceptions (such as the NES Remixes, where many of the favorable reviews aren't that favorable), this is where you would find the first games with more favorable reviews than meh/negative reviews.
I selected the 80 level to single out approximately the top 10% and because 80 seems like a round nice value.
As a comparison, Mario Kart 8 is at 89 with 55-0-0, and I don't think we'll find many indies above 90 in the future.
Maybe we could add nl's review score for each title too?
I think that'd be interesting.
The NL reviews for eShop Wii U games are found here.
One of the reasons why I created this list was to have an alternative to NL's reviews, since I think the NL review scores are broken and doesn't help me as a customer (personally, I think the scores by ONM are much more consistent and fair). However, one thing I was thinking of perhaps adding was the Metacritic user scores (which sometimes differ quite much from the metascore).
Now I've also created an eShop / GameRankings thread, for comparison purposes. Some games are affected getting a quite different total when the average is used instead of the weighted number.
Never knew metacritic worked like that. But it explains how EA can come out as the best publisher just by affecting the ones with the highest weighting.
(Or affecting metacritic itself by paying them to weight the ones that they have paid off highest).
“30fps Is Not a Good Artistic Decision, It's a Failure”
Freedom of the press is for those who happen to own one.
. There must be at least 4 review available for a game to be listed, due to the rules at Metacritic.
This is something that "screws" the Wii U/Nintendo platforms all the time.
Games sometimes never appear because of a (false) lack of reviews (a multiplatform review for example that doesn't count for the Nintendo version for no reason). A game could get 36 reviews on another platform but 3 reviews on the Nintendo platform.
. There must be at least 4 review available for a game to be listed, due to the rules at Metacritic.
This is something that "screws" the Wii U/Nintendo platforms all the time.
Games sometimes never appear because of a (false) lack of reviews (a multiplatform review for example that doesn't count for the Nintendo version for no reason). A game could get 36 reviews on another platform but 3 reviews on the Nintendo platform.
For me personally, I would often not consider a Wii U game to be as good if it worked identical to other platforms in terms of game control. The exception would be a game where the Pro Controller would be the only controller that made perfect sense for the game.
A related question is why some recent eShop games get lots of reviews (such as Scram Kitty) while others (such as Squids Odyssey) get few, when none of them are reviewed as shovelware.
Metacritic, for everyone who wants an uninformative, incomplete, thrown together collection of opinions in form of numbers.
Must be great for clueless people who want to stay clueless.
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