- April 12, 2021
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Guess even the publisher is embarrassed to have released this atrocity of a game. Even though Rise isn't the same genre, it'll probably be more worth the 60 dollar price tag than Balan. That makes it a certain no buy. This Balan Wonderworld is fantastic success story, so filled with joy my body falls through floor and walls! A color so beautiful if I wasn't sitting down to play this game, I would fall to my knees in tears of pure elation. What's more, many of these comments are written in similar broken English, with repeated phrases across a few of them, and, weirdly, all of the negative reviews are getting downvoted to hell. Bank of the West allows you to send money to friends or family almost instantly with Zelle. @Deltath I didn't say you couldn't have fun with Sword or Shield, but that they had serious (and acknowledged) flaws that were never addressed by launch, and yet had been given incredibly high ratings by games reviewers despite this, which is a pleasure few other games with the same sort of flaws had gotten likewise. A company being willing to instruct or even just encourage their employees to go online and make a few hundred fake profiles on Metacritic to boost the user rating (or hiring a third party data firm to do it for them) is NOT the same as a news outlet taking financial bribes to alter their review scores. That said, I think you make a fair point by assessing that this is not proof that the conclusions of this article are true or not. Sorry but I think its great (technical issues aside)! 7 min read. In the interest of fairness, here are a couple of the negative reviews: "This game is a dumpster fire" - octoyoshi, "Final boss nearly killed me, and I'm not even talking about an in-game death" - JoeMamama, "this is such a dull, boring, repetitive & brain dead game that it physically hurts me" - FieryGarfield. I’m certain these kind very real flesh and blood humans love Balan Wonderworld and cannot wait to get back to playing after their shifts at the Amazon Warehouse. -the cutscenes have some really nice renders though! It's a shame about Balan but Yuji Naka is still a genius programmer and I still look up to him, same as Iwata and all the greats. It's still better than all the review bombers who act like whiny wittle c*nts because they didn't wike the game's politics . The game is now at 27 metascore. Good thing that they at least released a demo... @Zoomzeta The point is that this article is an acknowledgment that publishers are very likely paying for good reviews, regardless of your opinion on Sword's and Shield's relation to that (though it was widely speculated that those games were involved in nefariousness like this, due to extreme controversy about their content before release and the fact that almost nothing was changed about them, positively-speaking, once they were released, yet they kept getting 8-10/10s for some strange reason). If so, how stupid does SE think people are? In all fairness I've been seeing several people on twitter talk about how much they enjoy the game. Review fluffing? You don't have to search hard on these sites to find enough user reviews that will give you an accurate picture of the game in question. A company being willing to instruct or even just encourage their employees to go online and make a few hundred fake profiles on Metacritic to boost the user rating (or hiring a third party data firm to do it for them) is NOT the same as a news outlet taking financial bribes to alter their review scores.". Formerly of Official Nintendo Magazine, GameSpot, and Xbox UK, you can now find Kate's writing all over the internet. Or maybe it's the case that Sonic fans just have really, REALLY low standards? Naturally there are some rather tedious moments to deal with and some might be turned off by the save system, which requires you to physically find a save room, but all in all, Bad Bots is a solid, modern 2D shoot-‘em-up. Some people actually think Batman v Superman (Ultimate included) was great and not a dumpster fire so it goes to show, like with this mess of a game, there is no accounting for taste. @MantaPloc The only thing is, it's not April fools yet. , (I'm just kidding mate, hope you don't mind a silly joke; in case you do, tell me and I'll delete). Heck, the pc version was surprisingly high, despite the very low steam score. Bad Bots Rise Run, jump and shoot your way to victory in this fast-paced action platformer. And the cost can be equally devastating. I feel like it's just one guy who wasn't paid that really likes the game and wants it to succeed, so he made loads of alts just to force the rating to go up. I am a bot, and this action was performed automatically. Good day to you. The Zelda series needs no introduction, and neither does its latest installment, Breath of the Wild (BotW). I think scores are usually completely meaningless, unless you have a very personal scale that doesn't grade games like we're at the Olympics or something and you're tallying up the amount of flaws and counting down from a perfect ten. Basically every game full stop. You're inability to do research will make you and easy foe in "debates" like this. I thought I knew what a great game was, but after experiencing the absolute torrent of joy pouring down upon my soul that Balan Wonderworld and the perpetually dancing NPCs instills within, I realise now I was totally blind before. lottk at their names and their profiles: only voting for balan wonderworld. EDIT: GDI apparently posting GIFs here from Imgur doesn't work, nor can I get postimg to work. @Beaucine Yeah exactly, I think it's just a flawed approach to base your gaming experience on a number score. BotW is practically the Dreams of Zelda mini games in how players keep [ab]using the engine to come up with hundreds of new ones.. This game is incredible. Looks like you're using new Reddit on an old browser. @Gauchorino I can't sit here and tell you Sword and Shield is an objectively better game, because it all comes down to opinion, but as a non-Pokemon fan who was checking out the series, I found it fun and it kept me entertained for about 45 hours. i got full permission from clf and one of the people who made the tricky mod btw. Balan Wonderworld, on the other hand, is one of the worst games I've ever played. Over the past few days, a slew of 10/10 scores have been coming in from Metacritic users, bumping Balan Wonderworld's score up to a surprisingly high, overall positive average. Honestly I think in this day and age it's really easy to get a good idea of what you're getting, especially when it comes to video games where you can just watch someone playing the game on youtube and decide if it looks like something you would want to play. The ones I have seen are brand new accounts only reviewing Balan Wonderworld and giving it a 10. gear. But when Ganon abducted Zelda all 3 peices were in one room. @Gauchorino There's review bombing and then there's review inflating(?). It makes me barf. I am not worthy. But is there any real evidence beyond rumor, assumption and innuendo that they're just paid flat fees from devs for a positive review? Eh she's been holding Ganon for 100 yrs what's just another couple hundred hrs of korok hunting gonna do? One is not remotely evidence of the other. Even when we like games so much that we wish there was some way to pump them into our bloodstream, we still have criticism, like the fact that Zelda: Breath of the Wild doesn't have a fishing minigame (electrocuting the water doesn't count). Just the very first hour of gameplay … Or maybe the game is really good? Welcome to r/botw! I have to, because of editorial policies, but it's pointless. Though there may be some out there, no, I'm not aware of any. Except... actually... maybe it's all okay! Id give the game like a 5/10 at best based on the demo, even for 1999-2002 standards its pretty mediocre. This is pretty common for metacritic, it has been dominated by fans and fanboys alike. #11 Mar 4, 2017. cbunbury20 Advanced Member. She moved to Canada a few years ago, but gets tea imported from England, because she has good priorities. @Deltath On the whole, I think we'll have to agree to disagree, then. You are tainting your good name, since people will only remember the trash and not the good games! So, what? . Stay away from Bank Of The West, they are getting as bad as Bank Of America. @BlackenedHalo That entirely depends on where these reviews are coming from. That’s why you can never trust Metacritic. Too much review bombing (often for some ridiculous reason) and extremely unfair or unjustified reviews (most games don't deserve 0 or 10, but instead something a … @SeantheDon29 [email protected], Gump. They do a simple like or dislike system for their game ratings and it removes a lot of that over the top fan behavior as people can't just assign a number to it. Most companies couldn’t begin to handle on their own a 300 – 500 Gbps attack, much less a 1 Tbps attack. You can, for example, purchase basic malicious bots to generate fake reviews or commit ad fraud for below USD 5. Guess someone opened a window and brought half the team back from whatever carbon monoxide fever dream they were previously in. /r/zelda is the hub for anything and everything The Legend of Zelda - the iconic Nintendo series. @Ulanda The thing is, there's no problem in liking a game. In a first for Nintendo’s long-running The Legend of Zelda franchise, Breath of the Wild actually explains why its silent protagonist, Link, never talks. 1. We won't tell you what to think. Sounds like a troll/joke post, I wonder if there's any other users doing this. Bank of the West has resolved 11 complaints. The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild Walkthrough. I've being asleep for a century and now I have amnesia!!! bots/fake reviews are being paid for by Square Enix, a lawsuit with the Federal Trade Commission may follow, as this is false advertising created to mislead the public by the publisher itself. Who's behind it? ZELDA holding Ganon back for the same amount of time alone: ....... maybe if zelda nutted the fuck up earlier and figured out how to use her magic hands before all of her fucking friends died horrible deaths completely alone in the machines that she convinced them to use she'd be deserving of some sympathy. I liked Devil’s Third. In unrelated news, also suspicious are the ads I'm seeing on NLife today supposedly for Humble Bundles including Pokemon Ultra Sun/Moon and Pokemon Crystal. Review Short bursts of fun. LINK: Will people give me a break?! https://punishedbacklog.com/.../2017/09/27/ranking-every-zelda-botw-npc He wears a hat and his name is Balan. Review... fluffer? Trolololol, this is just rich. I think that can be attributed to a myriad of other things, but not tampering on behalf of their publishers. You can’t take a positive opinion about it seriously. It's not like the Spyro trilogy, which I think still holds up. I've even seen sites encouraged to review popular games higher because it's better for their traffic. Though if these (OBVIOUS!) He can't really think this helps, can he? That website is one big joke, I mean you say there's still criticism but this site and others still gave BotW 10s despite it's flaws, Perhaps these "people" just enjoyed this game so much theyre able to overlook the flaws too, I noticed this whilst perusing Metacritic yesterday and laughed, Opposite of review bombing is love bombing. @Ulanda The game can literally induce seizures at the final boss fight if you don't patch the game, due to a glitch. Either they are from people who are trolling, or those trolls just use bots to do the same. April fools is a thing, just letting ya know. @Neopolitan amy of those will be more fun than this too. Seemed like a boring as game tbh. I went into Balan Wonderworld without having read any reviews and I thought it was good despite its technical issues. : I flippin love the Joel Schumacher Batman films, I think they hit the perfect balance between style/serious/funny it doesn't mean I have to like every film he's involved in. Thank the customer and be specific about what you have done which pleased them. Best graphics left me emotional! We’re so glad you felt safe and enjoyed your meal. This would at least take out a number of the stupid outliers leaving something closer to the general consensus. Boy are they going to be embarrassed (and tired) when they realize they have to go back and edit all those posts. I see no harm. They just said they are very similar to the game. Aside from the bad framerates on Switch, it's one of the better puzzle games I've played in a long time. Keep in mind, though, that if you use an ATM overseas, foreign transaction fees may apply. I came into BotW skeptical because they did trash a lot of staple zelda things, my biggest gripe is getting all the key items at the get-go and because Skyward Sword got a similarly high rating and fell flat for me(I did like their soundtrack cd though). With their advanced weaponry, these aliens are no match for ordinary humans. @BloodNinja You could too, get a good magnifying glass and don't lose count. I'll be waiting until you get this game. The winners of our Best of r/botw Awards have been announced for 2020, so head here for more information and how to vote! It's starting to look a little... suspect, if you ask us (and the rest of the internet). Geralt is basically a detective looking for signs of Ciri. Mister Naka, please retire? 1.9m members in the zelda community. Either way I have lost all confidence in that site and no longer really see it as being particularly useful. These comments are originally written in chinese and then translated on google to english. They also appear to have account names that all look surprisingly similar. Just go buy this game, it wants your money so bad, it wants you to play it so bad, it wants to be your local friend literally bad. And the prevalence of the color green in overworld maps can be distracting. Any help would be appreciated. 2018's burning question, now updated for 2021! Grinding on rails in that game is a blast. However, due to the openness of… The Nintendo Switch launch title takes the Zelda franchise to a whole new level, producing something even greater than the sum of its finely honed parts Having the word “bad” in the title of your game is inviting trouble. Hosted by 44 Bytes. Hold on there, you need to login to post a comment... Nintendo Has Updated Its Official Island In Animal Crossing: New Horizons, "As You Can See, I'm Not A Switch Player" Admits Epic Games' Tim Sweeney, The Epic Vs Apple Lawsuit Might Have Revealed Phil Spencer's Nintendo Secret, Iconic Action-RPG Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance Isn't Out Today On Nintendo Switch After All, Update: "We’re going to have to delay the launch for a few days". BoTW is busting at the seams with side content, from optional tasks carried out for quirky characters, to mini-campaigns that rival the main quest. @Beaucine Well that's the same reason why don't take those movie review sites seriously either lol. Bank of the West reviews first appeared on Complaints Board on Jun 19, 2007. And the professional reviewers have a crux to bare or something? Of course, yeah people can hold their opinions on something, and probably enjoy something more than others, but Balan is effectively a broken game. "Amount" is used for non-discrete/non-countable things, e.g., praise, love, etc. Effectively, Balan can actually be a danger to someone's health. However, despite some negativity surrounding the process, there are still quite a few people who follow professional gaming news sites for reviews. And this is a full priced title, 80 dollars over here in Canada?! One other notable example of this that comes to mind (that should appear in your results after you type "review bomb" in the search bar above) is a recent FIFA game. It's not about the game getting universal praise from every writer reviewing it. 1054 N Van Dyke Rd Bad Axe, MI 48413 Category: Home & Garden:Pets, Pet Supplies & Pet Services:Pet Services:Veterinary Hospitals:Veterinarians Bad Axe Animal Medical Clinic , 1054 N … Similar situation appeared to happen with Sword & Shield's launch and some other big name releases, as well. This guy knows what’s up. Is SE paying desperate foreigners to praise its game? I’ve played it on xbox series x and despite having the same shortcomings, the smoother Frame rate, more detailed graphics and higher res improve things enough to make it a little more palatable. Completing shrines will be one of your first goals in the game. That's why they look weird. And I can't believe people would target metacritic over something like steam. Moreover, just type "review bomb" (a highly-opinionated term) at the top of this page to see several examples from this site of how preferentially certain combined negative consumer review scores (of popular game releases) are treated (again, despite highly negative coverage of a game prior to its release qnd professional review), at least recently (since NintendoLife gave a far more negative score to past Pokémon games with far less noted flaws, such as (from what I recall) Pokémon Emerald). Of course, review aggregators like Metacritic run into this issue no matter what. No, nobody pays for reviews, we have the most secure review system since Sony and TLoU2. The crux of this article acknowledges that it is likely that Balan Wonderworld had been using paid (or in any case, dishonest) ratings. Just as a reminder, you can get Super Mario Odyssey, A Hat in Time, Crash Bandicoot 4, Spyro Reignited, or Crash N Sane Trilogy on Switch. Of course, cheap/basic bots are pretty easy to defend with today’s various bot mitigation solutions, but there are also advanced, sophisticated bots that can be really effective in … From the innovative way in which you have to enter the competitions to the prizes themselves, this site is … Zelda fanboys and fangirls will probably like it, but I found it dissapointing. That potentially they all age in their own ways (say a Hylian ages like we do until they become fully grown, then stay that way until the end of their lives where they become older and frailer, but a Goron takes longer to be fully grown but still have a longer life span than a Hylian), allowing people like Impa and Sidon to remember us. . Like lots of people gave BOTW low marks for lols or they own a rival console or just hate Zelda with a passion. In fact, maybe it makes sense that the game is repetitive and bland so it can be a piece of forgettable bite-sized gaming anyone can … It would allow a lazy critic to write something like: “Bad Bots? Don’t ignore these either – positive reviews are a golden opportunity for a conversation with a happy customer, for all the world to see. In fairness, this decade is pretty young still, so I suppose it could possibly be someone's favorite platformer of the decade. I like the concept of NiGHTS but I'm not the biggest fan of the game, I didn't even like Rodea, or Ivy the Kiwi, I just like them 3D Sonic games that give me that sweet speed and control. I withdrew all of my Savings and switched to Veridian because they actually PAY ME to use my money. Even the people that aren’t bots are going to insane lengths to defend this trash game even trying to use “games as art” drivel, if this ones a an example of “games as art” then that makes Bubsy 3D is the Mona Lisa of gaming. This is more of a DLC then a full game. Once I feel like I have asserted my dominance in one area I see another area off in the distance that piques my interest and in BotW you can go anywhere you can see. Thought they'd been acting a little coherent lately. Joined: Mar 4, 2017 Messages: 53 Country: i doing it to the system memory, because i dont have a big usb drive, and i have lots of data on my 500 gig to just … It sure isn't a 10/10 but I thought it was fun. No way best game ever! you have Skynet. Especially when the game can actually be potentially dangerous if you don't install the day 1 patch. Bank of the West will reimburse you for any third-party fees charged when you use a non-Bank of the West ATM. yeah those are botsbut if with those, i still love the game and gave it a honest 8/10 on metacritic. @SalvorHardin But Bubsy 3D the Mona Lisa of gaming, all fakes. If professional reviewers are so easily bought, why didn't Square pay them off for good critical reviews for Balan Wonderworld? @floridafilter : Who's having a debate? "We pumped up Gamestop stock... check out what we can do with this. It's an easy thing to do and also fairly easy to get away with. It's quite suspicious that not only is the game getting flooded with fake positive user reviews but there also weren't any critic reviews until a few days after launch. Come on man, THINK! I have been around this site long enough to get a feel for the different critics and their tastes and there is some critics where I know I just can't relate to them. It just seems weird that steam and gog and other storefronts have figured out how to keep their user reviews helpful while metacritic hasn't. Only negative reviews get taken down when people tell about bots. One is not remotely evidence of the other. 10/10 Spectacular videoful! There's a reason I'm bothering to type down all those words up above! I like it too. And did they really think this would work, instead of being awful press? It was universally panned.". BotW's world is insanely massive, as in it makes Skyrim's world look small, but I don't find myself losing interest. Live this game as an adventure And you will be rewarded with the best platform ever, I wouldn’t be surprised if the developers were somehow behind it, There is a powerup that turns you into a cube "whenever it feels like it". Balan Wonderworld has had some shockingly awful press around its release, including warnings of scenes that are unsafe for epileptic players, and a bunch of reviews that rarely poke their heads up above the 6/10 mark. Best experience is my life! The game can also make people violently sick as well at the same instance. Idk, just didn't really hook me. A bot or a troll? This game is totally radical and I think you should get it, I did a pixel count and I got 1440p in handheld mode, 120fps, with 8k and raytracing. Also, I know people like to say that reviews are paid for but legitimately, I've never seen any evidence that that's the case. @Bizzyb or they just consumed heaps of pot and junk food to make something this lazy and boring. I really didn't have high expectations for this game I though "Another platformer just like that mario trash, nothing like good games like cyberpunk 2077 (Though the "patches" have made it worse) or fortnite. Join 1,153,127 people following Nintendo Life: © 2021 Nlife Media, partner of ReedPop. Except maybe Alex, who's been beeping a lot lately. Will I like Balan? Scores are a terrible way to go about judging media. 1,381 reviews from Bank of the West employees about Bank of the West culture, salaries, benefits, work-life balance, management, job security, and more. @floridafilter : why does this reviewer care? I looked at the other versions of the game and noticed one of the users trashing the Switch version said for the PS5: "Balan has a really huge d*ck. @Deltath Many consumers like it simply because it's Pokémon (aka, brand loyalty). Why is it review manipulation seems to only happen on metacritic? Like yeah, it's a historically important game but not a good one. One of those times metacritic doesn't seem to be a trustworthy source for making one's mind up. Bad bots are wreaking havoc across enterprises and the Internet. Providing us flexibility, extra pay to make up for lost time, dedicated time-off in case of contracting COVID-19 and continual displays of care from upper management. Too right!” Thankfully, Bad Bots isn’t bad. Let BotW have negative reviews but creating a topic to announce and glorify that is ridiculous just as ridiculous as it is make a topic every time it gets 9/10 or 10/10 to brag and go whoo hoo "see the game is perfect and if you don't agree you're a hater". Believe all these with impunity, don't question it. I always prefer feedback when people just talk about it, describing what they liked and didn't like, and just give it a simple thumbs up or thumbs down, scores just complicate things. It's too often boosted or bombed based on reasons having nothing to do with whether or not the actual game is good or bad. Maybe it's only fitting that a crap game receives the opposite treatment. Lol. @Xylnox If you enjiy bravely defult 2, then youll love Balan wonderwardl for the xnox one! Which, again, is a very different and easier thing to do. this is just stupid. What's the opposite of review bombing? A lot of awesome games get negatively review-bombed for various reasons. Skyward sword really did make their game because MOTION CONTROLS and make fi as hand-holdy as possible complete with chimes if you ignored her. "Egregious and absolutely stunning game" may just be my favorite review of anything ever. “It’s like Hideo Kojima but with a hat god” is my new most favouritest sentence ever. By Dion Dassanayake PUBLISHED: PUBLISHED: 07:01, … "I think you're missing the point. Also, as a final point of fact. I had high expectations because I like NiGHTS and I'm a huge 3D platformer fan, but nothing could save that miserable game for me. come on man, THINK! I sold my boat on June 26th, 2010 Saturday. @Beaucine Yeah I totally agree there, my favorite video game coverage is always when someone has a story to tell about a game or when they're offering a lot of insight. Seems like there have been some pretty dodgy practices going on to try to sell this load of garbage. Feel free to share news, reviews, opinions, fan art, humour, comics, or anything else Zelda. Falling victim to bad bots can have serious consequences. reviewed on PC. Best adventure platformer, if you like Mario and Croc, thisi s the best game of the year. There are a whopping 120 of them in the game, and each one is essentially a mini-dungeon. Square Enix? But really, after 100 years, what's another 200 measly hours? Many reviewers were paid to give it good reviews despite its overwhelming flaws (which they, themselves, noted), which they derided other games for that had many of the same flaws that Sword and Shield had (such as many of the flaws noted about Balan Wonderworld, here on the review on this website). If you didn't have internet to get the patch when you bought the game.. then you'll literally get violently sick at the final boss, if you don't know that the final boss can induce seizures with a glitch. Most however are not so obvious and mostly go unnoticed... do your own due diligence and don’t be swayed by the (fake) herd. its like they know the games a disaster so theyre just trying to squeeze cheap money out of it with "any publicity is good publicity" attempts, @VoidofLight Oh... epilepsy, I see °~° that is nasty, indeed, but when you spoke about a danger, I thought first the game could brick or break your console -_- Not that epileptic seizures are no biggie, but those are a common pain since ever after with tv, video games or flashing lights -n- Still, sad to see that things like this are still happening -n-. @Ulanda They are allowed to like it sure, but they must be shamed for it! BotW's world is insanely massive, as in it makes Skyrim's world look small, but I don't find myself losing interest.
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