Spoiler It's Boss's real name.

Don't block every "temp e-mail" site out there, the "E-mail Alias" feature on sites like Gmail might also have the same effect. Have zero protection against people making multiple accounts at the same IP address. Doesn't even verify if you own the damn game.

Mimosa said: The lead game designer was SO SAD about this - I explained to him the phenomenon of "review bombing", and I hope he feels better. Click to expand... Click to shrink...

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Spoiler: awful bullshit Takes Naixatloz, the proper antagonist of said videos. and tosses it aside by cruelly making them a hallucination caused by A-set having a brain tumor, with barely any foreshadowing. and even requires you to rip her fucking eye out yourself, as part of a bullshit "One of the Psync machines requires you to remove an eye!" plotline that other characters get to conveniently ignore, all part of a route that's specifically about her.

FYI, it's someonedemonstrating how utterly busted the site is.Youwant to take a closer look at the Internet Archive. The first entry for that fateful day, on 08:38:05. Shows the score before it was "bombed"By 09:51:35 , the game had dropped into the yellow.Then once 11:33:15 rolled around,The game had reached the "Generally unfavorable" level.Other games have had their reviews screwed up, in a way thatties them to this incident.Crystar went from an average rated game to being the highest rated Spike Chunsoft game ever. The top review names the reason why they chose AI as their first example, calling them out for treating A-set (The adorable Vtuber they used to promote the game, at the expense ofthey released that year.) like utterin-game.and an Obscure DSiware game known as "Metal Torrent" was (and still.) the highest rated game on the site. If you take the first letter of each paragraph in the sole review. You get "A-set". and the username is an obscure spoiler that's only really recognizable if you have some knowledge about the game.Albums were affected too, but there's no clear hint that it's the same person. Someone moved both of John Carpenter's "Lost Themes" albums to the top of the charts. In case you're wondering how absurdly easy it is for one person to screw everything up so easily, it turns out theyThe main lesson here is that Metacritic iswhen it comes to user reviews, remember when people review bombed Portal 2 , now considered to be one ofbest games ever made, because the game had a tiny,hat store?At least link the tweet.As a reminder, Steam, whichprotects against this sort of thing and requires you to own the game before reviewing it. Still has "Very Positive" reviews.Since this post is starting to get spread around (What baggage is saying is indeed the case.) because Uchikoshi himself linked the thread. I'd like to quickly note that this was not "done out of nowhere" like people are suggesting. It wasin response to the recent discourse of Warcraft 3 Reforged, becoming the "worst reviewed game on Metacritic" . Which i found to be a bit ridiculous considering the countless cases of people similarly damaging review scores of perfectly good games (Reforged isn't even that bad of a remaster IMO, a lot of the "controversy" surrounding it is that they decidedto completely redo the cutscenes. Which they stated multiple times pre-release that they were scaling back on.)The planto make a proper thread a few days after my tests were finished, demonstrating how you canturn any obscure game into one of the best or worst games of all time with just a few hours of work. Hence why i ended up archiving everything each step of the way. Anyone who's familiar with my previous threads (Or watched the Gamexplain video on Tomohiro Kawasae ) knows i like doing investigative articles on Gaming, and this was going to be no different.But Akira Okada ended up discovering that i had tanked the score for AI hours after i did it, and the whole story basically blew up from there.To reiterate my thoughts on the game from previous threads. Imost of the A-set videos and found them to be incredibly endearing, even developing a massive crush on her due to my general attachment issues. But ithe actual game for how it basically ignoressaid videos were trying to build up, to the point that itthe protagonist being a unlikable asshole who'scharacter trait is "hehe funny sex joke" + basically spends 90% of the game completelyhis adoptive daughter, and the fact that i personally find the storyline it uses instead to be complete and utterfilled with plot holes and ridiculous logic.I definitely feel pretty bad for Akira getting so upset over it though, especially considering that despiteseems to be the person running the Japanese A-set account . Whichprovides some of the cute idol content i enjoyed pre-release. Drawing little sketches of mythological figures and other fun things.Honestly, if there's one takeaway you should get from this unfortunate situation i've gotten myself into. It's that A-set means ato me. Even though i hated how her game turned out, it still makes mehappy to see people doing things like creating fanart, and hopefully this encourages you (and Spike Chunsoft themselves, i really wish they'd make more videos!) to continue supporting her....Even itend with you acquiring Somnium Files and actually enjoying it.