Speaking toGI.bizrecently alongside survivalhorrorgenre maker-upper Shinji Mikami, Suda expressed his frustrations with the review aggregator platforms cultural cache.
“Everybody pays too much attention to and cares too much about Metacritic scores.
The bigger companies might not want to deal with that kind of thing.
That might not be the main reason, but that’s certainly one reason why.
Everyone cares too much about the numbers.
“More unique games don’t really have the same marketability.”
Rightly or not, 6/10 carries different connotations to three stars.
“Maybe it just wasn’t fucked up enough,” said Suda of the game.
“If it was a bit more fucked up, maybe Mikami would have been into it.
