Reviews are garbage, the fake ones, the real ones.
They are all just opinionated feedback.
Few reviewers can get past their personal bias and lay out the facts.

This is what made people question polygon's writing? They are a joke and always have been. Same with 98% of the big sites. They are owned by scumbag companies like gawker and vox, what are you expecting?

Don't go by reviews anymore. Wait for the word of mouth from the community or a demo. Stop going to these sites for reviews. Let them die.

Polygon hates Japanese game. In other news, the sky is blue.

There's only one reviewer who should leave polygon and that's Arthur Giese.

Ehh. Not only Polygon's review was questionable.

I've been playing this game all morning and honestly.. It's just no where close to as fun as Star Fox 64.

The controls are SO frusterating.

"Polygon has scored Star Fox Zero a 0/10 because they couldn’t finish it." That's a completely disingenuous statement, and misses the point, entirely. Polygon scored Star Fox Zero 0/10 because they WOULD NOT finish it, due to the numerous faults they found and listed, articulately. This entire article is basically an angry polemic against a crappy game getting a crappy score.

Polygon are a strange bunch. I've always found them very odd. Griffin, Philip, Justin, Arthur, etc. Bunch of screwballs that just happen to have the gift of writing.

They moan about some ridiculous stuff. Their Witcher 3 review was a downright pathetic cry for attention, as have been a great many of their reviews.

Sorry aussie-gamer, but your article just comes off as defensive, pro-Nintendo whining, all because a journalist found a game from your favorite company to be unplayable. Many other reviews have mentioned that the gimmicky controls really ruin the game; it's sitting on Metacritic with a 71 overall score (and slowly dropping). If you exclude the handful of super-fanboy journalists, like those from uproxx or cheatcc, the game would be well into the 60s.

Is it so hard to believe that Nintendo completely bungled the game? All in the interest of trying to justify the existence of the gamepad. What a shame.

Good article.
IMO, any reviewer that doesn't possess the skill or patience to go through at least one run-through of a game, doesn't deserve to give it any sort of final score.
There are plenty of reviewers that have played this game, that aren't having nearly as many issues as Polygon's reviewer did.

It's not a "broken game", nor is it "a disgrace", "disastrous", "a glorified tech demo", or anything similar.
Anyone saying such things is entitled to their opinion, but they're also entitled to how much of an uninformed hater they've proven themselves to be by saying such things as well.

As for me, I've tried the game at an event and recently played through a nice bit of it on my step-bro's Wii U, and I gotta say, it took me less than ten minutes to get used to the controls, and I thoroughly enjoyed my short time with it.
I'll definitely be picking it up, and if the rest of the game is as fun as my short experience with it, it'll be worth every cent spent.

Here is the thing. People always complain about how certain outlets don't post great reviews. I've reviewed a handful of games myself and have heard a lot of criticism on my reviews.

Let me just say this one thing, if you don't like the way someone reviewed a game, don't read it. Everyone has their own opinions on what makes a game great and what makes a game bad. Really, at the end of the day, the only review you should be relying on is your own. I can tell you that I am a huge Halo fan because I personally like the style of gameplay it has to offer. I have a lot of fun playing the game and I can sit here and gush about how great the game is. However, other people have different opinions on the matter. Not everyone has to agree with every review, and hell, I'm sure there are quite a few who will call Halo a low-tier series. That's their own opinion. Do I agree with that statement? No, but I don't have to. I published my own Halo 5 review and gave it a glowing review. Why? Cause I liked it.

An outlet bashing another outlet for a review they did is, in my opinion, very unprofessional and im-mature. This article in itself is blaming Polygon for being click-baity, when this article, as a whole is click-baity in itself.

This comment left here validates my point - "You don’t have to love every game you ever play, but to call yourself a reviewer you need to have experience in at the very least liking video games in general enough to bother playing them."

So you are making a point that the reviewer, who has reviewed multiple games before this one, doesn't like games despite giving games like Quantum Break and Witcher 3 great scores.

If you don't like the review, move on with your life and if you really can't get it off your mind, publish your own review with your own opinions and story. Don't post on your blog about how Polygon, IGN, Gamespot or even my own outlet "reviewed a game poorly and they should feel bad because opinions."

Who the hell lets the look of game boxes or standard advertised features influence their purchase.

I'm mostly digital now but when I go into a store to pick up something, I ask for the game and then go pay for it. I don't ask for the game, review the box to make sure it has all the necessary feature slogans, then make my purchase.

Giant Bomb gave it a 2/5. Many JP mags did the same or worse. IGN, GameSpot, they don’t want to lose incentives (especially with the NX coming out) and possible ad revenue, which has been exposed in the past.

Look at Destructoids 7: "A solid game that definitely has an audience. Might lack replay value, could be too short or there are some hard-to-ignore faults, but the experience is fun." hard to ignore faults still gets a 7 with them claiming average is 5?

I am personally mad the game Platinum games envisioned was crapped on by Nintendo wanting them to use a gimmick that roughly forced them to re-design the entire game.

While I don't like Polygon very much, I think there wasn't anything wrong about their Star Fox article. 2 points to consider:

1. It wasn't a review. Stop calling it that. It didn't have a score or anything.

2. The reviewer tried to review the game, but he just couldn't finish it because it was a horrible experience for him and he didn't want to force himself to play the game further. Because of that, he just decided to write his impressions of the game he'd played so far, and not turn it into a review because he didn't finish it. In my opinion, this is commendable, not something to criticize.

the fact that the game got mix reviews from most gaming sites, except those pro nintendo, shows that the games controls isnt that fun, still find it hilarious that every fanboy says that the co-op is fun for some reason, and when i tell them about two planes co-op, i get the same answer "we dont need it".

The only thing that looked off putting was using the Wii U Gamepad motion controls

tbh this is the first I'm hearing that people didn't like it. YouTubers were swearing by the game like they do every nintendo release when it dropped. But I do remember my main reason for skipping was the dumb controls.

Biggest disappointment from Platinum games IMO

If they do a re-release with normal controls it would sell and be beloved. Motion controls have a place but most of the time they are just not there yet.

Give me Wii Bowling for the switch already!