IGN and Eurogamer to the rescue...All is needed now is the ''technical'' review from Microsoft's surrogates...Aka Digital Foundry...

Lol, no.

Proof that apples and oranges are both delicious but if you could just choose one…

No, they didn't.
They gave Stellar Blade 4/5.

You know that they have a 5 points score system right?
so they basically gave 1 point less for your PS5 game so wow they must be so biased and bought by MS unlike the folks at Eurogamer who stood their ground to give Starfield their well-deserved 3/5 (60%) when all MS-bought media gave Starfield 8 and above.

Have you considered that perhaps the reviewer simply loves this kind of game and he was impressed with REAL next-gen graphics and REAL use of 3d sounds? something was supposed to define what was the Ps5 and Serie X?

Petebloodyonion

Actually you bring up a good point on how they constantly overlooked Tempest which was doing real 3d with ray traced audio way back in Forbidden West. And I almost forgot AstroBot which came with the console for free also had Tempest 3D at launch.

But it's all similar to how they praised Starfield for having graphical modes like 40fps and unlocked framerrates like it was some kind of new thing and they were so innovative while ignoring the fact that Sony has had that for nearly every single exclusive going back to Miles Morales.

But yes, I think rating this game higher than FF7R a game which has longer mini games than this entire game and easily 10x the hours of spoken dialog an actual world to explore and 10x main the story length with 90 to 150 hour+ plus worth of content to be a travesty. Especially when you realize the game is only 30 fps and doesn't even hold that with a resolution at 900p on Series X.

In fact every game I listed except Silent Hill The Short Message which was free and almost the same length but more dialog was at least 20 hours with most of them being over 40 hours.

If this is all you want from Microsoft so be it, they will be happy to give you 6 hours worth of gameplay every 7 years, I'm sticking with PlayStation where games are expected to be of a much higher quality and value.

You seem mentally unwell.

Seems strange.