Rumour: Bayonetta gets 40/40 from Famitsu [Update]

gaf says it’s fake for now, as no one actually has any evidence to back this claim.

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=18119398&postcount=149

I still hope it’s true.

It’s amusing how many of those 40/40 titles I really didn’t like very much.

I’ve removed that update.

I laugh at this comment

Originally Posted by intheinbetween:
i thought SEGA would be responsble for that, not Platinum Games..

Clearly they took funding for the PS3 version and gave it to Famitsu instead.

Even if this isn’t true, I find it pretty amazing that all games that got 40/40 from Famitsu were published by Japanese companies.

how the fuck is nintendogs a fucking perfect game?

They might have been barking up the wrong tree with that one.

Hold on, Sega tweeted it.

http://twitter.com/SEGA/status/5015107581

FFXII perfect score?

I couldn’t even be arsed finishing it…

And I don’t think I agree with any of those ‘perfect’ scores. MGS4 is close, but not quite perfect.

@ ScreenTearing

No less amazing then Uncharted 2 getting rave reviews in the West.

Famitsu writes for a japanese audience, not surprising that japanese companies know what that audience likes and make games that appeal to them, thus getting high scores.

40? bloody japanese can’t do anything NORMAL can they?

I wonder how much “marketing budget” it takes to buy Famitsu these days. I’m still amused that they once spoke candidly about the fact that publishers can essentially “negotiate” a higher score.

If i remember correctly Famitsu scores out of 40 because the games are reviewed by 4 different people (each out of 10). Its quite a decent way of doing things but its just retarded to think that 4 people gave the game a perfect score, especially this game.

Remember kids: perfect score does not mean perfect game.
It only means 4 people like it very much.

@Freek

Exactly.

And another thing half of the list are games that came out in 2008 or newer. Smells like a trend to me.

“40? bloody japanese can’t do anything NORMAL can they?”

It’s an aggregate of four reviewers marking out of 10.

It’s probably the best way for any one source to mark things since you’re getting 4 perspectives rather than 1, still, as the list demonstrates, just because 4 Famitsu guys liked it doesn’t mean everyone will.

@Freek What is the problem with Uncharted 2 getting great reviews in the West? If you don’t listen to the noise created by any blogger that makes a review, you have a game that have an average of 95. BTW U2 is nowhere near the bullsh*t reviews that GTA IV, Halo 3 and MGS4 got from the mainstream media where all the flaws were overlooked by the reviewers. And one of those games is from a Japanese developer and publisher, so what’s your point again?

Personally
I liked the demo, it became a must have game for me that day.
It wont get perfect scores over here, but it will be a damn fun game.

This game, in it’s genre, is probably up there with Uncharted 2.

I liked it.
But not that much.

This…

Suikoden Fan said:
how the fuck is nintendogs a fucking perfect game?

@freedoms_stain

That was actually one of my favorite FF’s :-/ Oh well, to each his own.

based on the demo experience, gameplay wise I can see Bayonetta easily getting a 10. not so sure about the overall perfect score.

My point is that it isn’t a problem at all, but that the magazines reflect the taste of it’s audiance and that companies catering to said audiance will logicaly get high scores because they know them well.
There is nothing wrong with that, that’s why you see an exclusivly japanese list of high scores in a japanese gaming mag.

In the West you might see a few japanese games slip in, we’re a little more broad in our tastes but overall it would be the Halos, Call of Duties and Fall Outs that make up our highest scoring games.