I only played the demo and i got bored with the style of the game within minutes. It was repetetive. But also, thats more of a kiddiegame.
Fun to read all the 129 comments so far. They are all bashing the reviewer. It really reminds me of the review of NWN2 when it was released (don't remember the site).
Altough, in that case the editor pulled the review. In FZ.SE one editor is defending the reviewer by saying all reviews are personal preferences. I can buy that, its just good to know that in the future, reviews of that site are pointless. They should really have some context into which they review and mark grades. 1.5 is really unworthy of the game.
3/5 is perfectly alright. cause its not a bad game. (Some design choices though are).
The reviewer also complains at the lack of multiplayer options. One funny comments was about the "sex" part of the game. He wondered if the reviewer knew that he didn't NEED to sleep with every women. You could CHOOSE to do it. You had FREEDOM to do as you fit.
FZ.SE is taking a high moral stance against sexism in games. I think its great, but i would rather see that it was spent elsewhere like FIFA, Soccer Worldcup (women played in china this year, EA - wheres my game). Taking this moral stance FZ is currently taking would pose some problem against movie, mtv and such - which in my view is a problem. If the game "The witcher" would in its entirity be a book, a novel, no one should have minded. Now its a game.
A game with a 18 year sign on it. If i have to deal with somebody elses morality, make it in game - like the withcer does.
Metacritics lowest grade is currently 60 with an average of 81. User score is 9.5/100 with 166 votes. So...
What really bothers me is that here is a game that let me do choices i don't really know what they imply. I feel like i part of the game, and it gets bashed for try doing it. Well, good to see fz.se is alone out there.
The sweden sin seems to die with the new generation.
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I think this is a fun read, reading the comments, and seeing two sides of the game. I think its interesting from a social point of view. FZ is entitled to its point of views. And i don't mean to take that from them. This is probably somethign i should discuss with all of you over a beer, cause, i feel like my above text could be missinterpreted.