In a bold move by Nintendo Of America, you can now add reviews for certain Switch games on its official website. So far games such as The Legend Of Zelda: Breath Of The Wild and Splatoon 2 have garnered universal praise from customers, as you'd expect. So just to make sure the system was working correctly we headed over to the 1-2-Switch game page and lo and behold, you can actually give negative reviews as well:
Of course, customers won't be able to leave anonymous reviews, you'll need to be signed in with your Nintendo account. Nintendo also ensures that you have played at least two hours of the game before you are allowed to leave a review too. When leaving your review you can write a brief summary of your thoughts and give a rating between one and five stars. You can also choose from a range of tags too such as: Fun to play, Immersive and Challenging.
For the time being it appears that only selected games have this review feature, however, we'd expect this to roll out to other games once Nintendo is sure that it isn't just going to be spammed with silly reviews. (As an aside, if anyone wants to create a really successful Twitter account, a Nintendo games version of this would do gangbusters!).
Let us know what your thoughts are on this new user review system? Will you even bother reading Nintendo Life's reviews anymore? Which games would you give five stars? Sound off with a comment below.
[source nintendo.com]
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They were behind the times as usual, but thankfully they caught up haha. Hopefully we'll be able to start seeing and leaving reviews through the switch itself soon enough.
I totally expect that feature to come to the Switch eShop as well, with both comment databases being merged. (Also, Europe please)
It's a step up from the feature that was on the eShop. I agree with the review of 1,2 Switch. Crucially, is it possible to give a game a "0"? I expect not.
This integrated with the eShop would be most helpful. Now I can't wait for people to find ways to abuse this system. Either people who hate Nintendo or are fanboys of other companies or are salty about Wii U will have a field day with this.
I noticed this 2 days ago and I love it. I love that they require you to write a review and I wish every website did this so people can't troll the ratings. You also have to have played the game for 2 hours. They don't seem to be screening the reviews very closely either, as I've seen some duplicates already and some really lousy ones ("I am just typing to fill up 50 characters. Game was ok"). Hopefully this means it's coming to Switch to help us not buy games like Infinite Minigolf.
Glad they require you to have played the game to write a review. Not even Steam does that.
This is old news man...
My comments about 1-2-Switch :
It was a Hilarious Fun Mini Game compilation, but quite overpriced, need some price drop.
Glad to see people can't give games a 0
do these show up on the eshop too?
1-2 Switch = Boooo motion controls and prototype games. Nintendo Labo = Yay motion controls and prototype games!!
@SLIGEACH_EIRE dude you crack me up. You’re the most glass half empty guy ever
@iLikeUrAttitude But some games deserve a 0.
Well this is gonna be interesting. Does it work on a 5 star rating system.
May do a few though I doubt I’d ever put in a 1 star review as that would for me be reserved for an utterly broken game with next to know effort.
@SLIGEACH_EIRE Personally, to get 0 Stars the game would have to be utterly unplayable/broken or show no effort whatsover on the part of the developers. 1-2 Switch is undeniably overpriced and a “unique” experiment with potentially limited value amongst many; but not 0. Heck even Vroom in the Night Sky deserved 1 star as it at least “runs”.
Interesting. Good to know Nintendo won't be removing (most of) the negative reviews then.
I can't wait to 5/5 everything Jk.
I'd give 1-2-Switch 3 stars.
It was fun in the beginning, but it quickly lost its appeal. Also it could have been cheaper.
@FX102A If there's a maximum(100) then what's the minimum? 20%? No. It's 0%. A poor game shouldn't automatically get 20% regardless of its quality.
@FX102A @SLIGEACH_EIRE I feel like troll and I is a good example of a game that deserves a 0
As long as I'm not faced with other people's opinions while browsing the eShop.
I really don't think it serves much pupose to have aggregate user scores in digital stores, and I commend Nintendo for keeping all the community fluff out of the eShop.
I'll be surprised if this is extended to indie games. Just having this option for 1st party games though is good enough. It means Nintendo can't get away with releasing games like amiibo Festival and Ultra Smash anymore,not without receiving the wrath of every poor soul who purchased it anyway.
Cool. I just left 3 reviews.
@SLIGEACH_EIRE 1 star is a 0% though.
1* = 0%
2* = 25%
3* = 50 %
4* = 75%
5* = 100%
They should totally incorporate this into the Switch E-Shop as well, being able to view reviews and ratings directly on the Xbox's Store is really handy. Slowly but surely Nintendo is catching up with the times.
How long until they shut this down?
the moderation team is clearly on its A game, having approved my double post here: https://www.nintendo.com/games/detail/slime-san-switch (And I have no way of deleting the duplicate, of course.)
@link3710 That's not right. It goes in 20% intervals. But let's entertain your version. I don't know if you seen NL's review last week for Superola and the Lost Burgers, that scored a 1/10. So on your scale, it gets 25% instead of its 10% and despite 10% being closer to 0% than 25%?
https://www.nintendolife.com/reviews/switch-eshop/superola_and_the_lost_burgers
That's wrong.
@Biff_ARMStrong boo motion controls and prototype games that are bad and uninteresting. yay motion controls and prototype games that are fun and well-thought-out like Wii Sports and Nintendo Land. Of course until Labo releases we won’t know whether it is one or the other.
Eh, The leave review button is not working on the canadian website, when i click it does nothing.
Nice feature this seems like. I could maybe try it out sometime.
Like Amazon and MetaCritics, a lot of reviews will be just complaints instead of fair critiques (ex: I bought Bayonetta 2, it doesn't came with Bayonetta 1 on the same cart, so it deserves 2.5/5 stars. I hate download code).
This is ok for now, but I really liked the customer feedback that was the whole point of Club Nintendo back in the day. I still get some review feedback sent to my email with the new system, but it isn't consistent at all.
They hopefully will link this to My Nintendo and the eShop so leaving a review will reflect on the eShop. Also let us review FROM the eShop too.
Perfect note for Breath of the wild. Nice feature but want it on eshop too.
Something for trolls to hit
I'm only going to leave good reviews to artificially keep the game scores high that way people know Nintendo games are AMAZING!!!
I appreciate this move. I'm glad Nintendo is finally letting people post more detailed reviews of their games on their site. I also think that the 2hr play time requirement is a good idea but I am a bit worried about some shorter games like some walking sims
@Captain_Gonru
It's not really about whether the scores are fair or accurate. It's that the accuracy of the score is the least interesting bit for me in whether or not I would personally be interested in the game.
If I can watch a trailer and see screenshots, and if I've read a review or heard people talk about about a game, I know whether I want it or not.
After that point, an aggregate user score really only serves to make me feel less satisfied with the purchase of a game I want/like, if it has a low score. It's also not very cool if something I end up being disappointed with has a very high score.
Ultimately, I don't feel like the scores have ever really helped me make a good decision, so I'd rather they weren't there.
HAHAHAHA
As long as there's some policing to weed out the blatant nonsense reviews, I'm fine with this. I don't think it'll be a feature that I use on my own much though.
★★★★★
i gave this idea five stars,
but i should take away one
star because they use to
give me gold coins for a
review...sniff #missuclubnintendo
@link3710 @SLIGEACH_EIRE I agree that on a 5 star scale you should be able to rate a game a zero. Some games really do deserve a 0 and shouldn’t automatically be given a slightly higher rating just due to existing.
I had not considered 1=0% and then moving up by 25% each time, that could very well be how it is supposed to be interpreted but I think having 0 as an option is far more intuitive.
As an aside, using a 1/10 review when we have been talking about a 5 star system seems kinda like a straw man fallacy. The percentage breakdown isn’t really the same between the two.
On the 0 star vs. 1 star debate, off the top of my head I can't think of any website review system using a five star scale that lets you use no stars. Usually the act of clicking any star is what initializes the page's logic for "Yes, I am writing a review of this item" in a list of items. In the theoretical situation of allowing no stars, where would you click in that case? (Yes, a drop down list or a radio button list would be one way, but site design tends to lean towards image representations these days.)
@SLIGEACH_EIRE That is wrong again. On a scale of 1-10 with no 0, 1 would be 0%, 2 would be 11%, 3 would be 22%... 9 would be 89%, and 10 would be 100%. You can't take a 1 to 5 scale and apply it straight to a 1 to 10.
Pretty neat, it's great that you need to sign-in(no anonymous 1- star troll reviews) and require you to play at least two hours. User review can be decent, but only if there are some requirements like this.
I don't want to read a review of a disgruntled troll who gives every Nintendo game a 1-star review just "for teh Lulz". Or a 1 star review of a game like Xenoblade X just because they removed the boob slider. Granted, nothing wrong with a negative review, so long as it's for good reason.
You have to have played for two hours? On the 3DS and Wii U you only had to play for one to rate the games. I wonder why they changed it?
@TheLobster
They probably don't want people judging Breath of the Wild before they even made it off the Plateau.
2 hour mandate ensures only people who have truly spent enough time playing the game to form a responsible opinion get to share their thoughts.
I typically don't waste my time rating ok-ish games, or even decent to good games. But if I play a really great game that I absolutely love, I will often go leave a review for that game because I just can't stop from gushing about it.
DOOM Switch post-motion controls update, Bayonetta 2 and Skyrim all got reviews from me on the eShop thus far. I intend to leave a few more as I get the time.
@Galenmereth Not according to their site. Steam doesn't require you to purchase a game in order to review it.
http://store.steampowered.com/reviews/
i want to see this usuable on 3ds stuff
It's nice that they are finally getting it... but with it being only on the website and only for some games, I don't expect it getting a lot of traction.
Wow, if Nintendo allows negative reviews kudos. I would have never ever expect that after all the censure and stupid moderation on Miiverse.
The 1-2-Switch review is spot on.
Put a Celeste review up a few days ago. I'm glad this system is in place but I don't envy the work at managing it.
@CuriousUserX90 Well, I think I've found the page, but I dunno where to submit my own reviews for these games: https://www.nintendo.com/games/switch
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