@impurekind With respect, a lot of things about scores and format are set by the publication, not the author. The author doesn't use review scores on their own website, but they do here because that's what the publication asks.
Also, games are inherently holistic - looking at each component of the game in turn doesn't fully represent the game as a whole. If there's some big issue with the game (say, being very short) that drags down the rest of the game, then simply taking an average of various scales isn't appropriate, since it implies all parts of a game are equally important.
On the whole, the review reflects that, while the game itself is quite solid, it's simply too short to justify its asking price. The expectations of a game that costs £1 and a game that costs £50 are rather different, after all.
As far as Puyo Puyo games go, for most people I would probably go for some variation of Puyo Puyo Champions instead - it's on pretty much all modern platforms, it's around the same price (about 10 dollars, but even cheaper on sale), it has a matchmaking/ranking system (with a solid playerbase the last I played), and while basic it's generally a more polished product.
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Re: Review: Whipseey And The Lost Atlas - A Kirby Clone That's Over In The Blink Of An Eye
@impurekind With respect, a lot of things about scores and format are set by the publication, not the author. The author doesn't use review scores on their own website, but they do here because that's what the publication asks.
Also, games are inherently holistic - looking at each component of the game in turn doesn't fully represent the game as a whole. If there's some big issue with the game (say, being very short) that drags down the rest of the game, then simply taking an average of various scales isn't appropriate, since it implies all parts of a game are equally important.
On the whole, the review reflects that, while the game itself is quite solid, it's simply too short to justify its asking price. The expectations of a game that costs £1 and a game that costs £50 are rather different, after all.
Re: Review: SEGA AGES Puyo Puyo - You Can't Polish A Puyo This Plain
As far as Puyo Puyo games go, for most people I would probably go for some variation of Puyo Puyo Champions instead - it's on pretty much all modern platforms, it's around the same price (about 10 dollars, but even cheaper on sale), it has a matchmaking/ranking system (with a solid playerbase the last I played), and while basic it's generally a more polished product.