NGamer reviewed Red Steel and loved it?

EGM’s not the only magazine to have a crack at Wii launch titles. The same Rocked of NeoGAF who last revealed what EDGE had to say about the Wii, now reveals what equally-Brit mag NGamer had to say about a couple of Wii launch titles, Ubisoft‘s Red Steel and Sega‘s Super Monkey Ball: Banana Blitz. So they gave the monkeys a respectable 84%, God knows why, but pretty respectable.

For Red Steel they gave a 90%.

Too bad Rocked didn’t give out any details on why NGamer gave Red Steel a 90%, other than one thing, which I can’t say since I think it’s gonna be a spoiler. Now don’t get me wrong. I’m looking forward to  playing this game (at the risk of being torn apart by Linkites, I can safely say that I’m not that all agog to play Twilight Princess… *must hide!*). But we gotta put this 90% into perspective, especially since we can’t read the magazine ourselves, anyway.

• Some of the people over at NeoGAF couldn’t believe that “SMB got a lower score than Red Steel.” Maybe they love their monkeys.
• Or their Pokemon, as one reply goes cross-platform to compare the DS Pokemon Diamond/Pearl (79%) with Red Steel.
• On the other hand, NGamer is an indie game mag, with a rep for being “pretty harsh” with their review scores.
• And one reply noted that before this review issue, “NGamer were going around saying some not to great things about Red Steel if I remember correctly.”
• One reply may have gotten an important point: ” Early Wii reviews have to have a novelty rating adjuster. Real scores will arrive as people get jaded about the whole thing.”

Personally, I still want to get Red Steel, 90% or not, but that’s only because I like playing with katanas. But sometimes it would be nice to know what each reviewer was thinking, don’t it? Otherwise, the debates here, at NeoGAF, or elsewhere, would be endless.

EGM’s not the only magazine to have a crack at Wii launch titles. The same Rocked of NeoGAF who last revealed what EDGE had to say about the Wii, now reveals what equally-Brit mag NGamer had to say about a couple of Wii launch titles, Ubisoft‘s Red Steel and Sega‘s Super Monkey Ball: Banana Blitz. So they gave the monkeys a respectable 84%, God knows why, but pretty respectable.

For Red Steel they gave a 90%.

Too bad Rocked didn’t give out any details on why NGamer gave Red Steel a 90%, other than one thing, which I can’t say since I think it’s gonna be a spoiler. Now don’t get me wrong. I’m looking forward to  playing this game (at the risk of being torn apart by Linkites, I can safely say that I’m not that all agog to play Twilight Princess… *must hide!*). But we gotta put this 90% into perspective, especially since we can’t read the magazine ourselves, anyway.

• Some of the people over at NeoGAF couldn’t believe that “SMB got a lower score than Red Steel.” Maybe they love their monkeys.
• Or their Pokemon, as one reply goes cross-platform to compare the DS Pokemon Diamond/Pearl (79%) with Red Steel.
• On the other hand, NGamer is an indie game mag, with a rep for being “pretty harsh” with their review scores.
• And one reply noted that before this review issue, “NGamer were going around saying some not to great things about Red Steel if I remember correctly.”
• One reply may have gotten an important point: ” Early Wii reviews have to have a novelty rating adjuster. Real scores will arrive as people get jaded about the whole thing.”

Personally, I still want to get Red Steel, 90% or not, but that’s only because I like playing with katanas. But sometimes it would be nice to know what each reviewer was thinking, don’t it? Otherwise, the debates here, at NeoGAF, or elsewhere, would be endless.