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I’ve really been thinking about how game criticism is judged recently. We currently use a twenty point scale from one to ten with half points in between and for the most part it works well. But I’m starting to wonder if keeping it akin to other media outlets is a good idea or not.

The average for scoring a game is more like a seven instead of a five and we rarely use the lower end of the spectrum here at Nidzumi although we originally intended to. The point is that why have twenty points in a scale if you are only going to use the top five to score games by. As far as I can tell the lowest score we have given was too Baroque on the Wii and that recieved at 4.5. This leaves nearly half of the scale untouched.

The more I think about it the more I want to change the site to a five star review scale telling you if the game is brilliant, good, average, bad or terrible. Keeping it basic and hopefully removing needless squabbles over scores. I remember once when reviewing Mario Kart Wii I recieved critism for giving the game an 8.0 which was a score that was justifyed in the text. But people just frowned upon the notion that the game didn’t get a 9.0 or above. I can understand the defense of critism at a franchise against sometihng you invest time and money into but 8.0 is a good score.

Still less venting should be done here. I’m beginning to think that a simple score would be more suitable for the site but what do you guys think. There are loads of score scales which all have their own pros and cons but I really can’t see anything bad with the five star scale.

A switch over might be in the works…