Tag: Game Rankings

With the most recent review of Skyward Sword coming from 4News.it, there are now 6 published reviews of Skyward Sword. While this is still a small sample of reviews, the game currently has an average score of 96.3%. It’s hard to really tell what this means as review scores are quite arbitrary, but it’s fun to use them to compare scores side by side. Websites such as Game Rankings do just this and these scores seem to resiginate with a…

The very first review of Ocarina of Time 3D is now in and it was posted in the German edition of GamePro magazine. The review had only good things to say about the game, touching on the graphics, sound, and gameplay. The final score for the game was a 93%, which is already lining it up to be the best reviewed game for the Nintendo 3DS. To date the top reviewed game for the Nintendo 3DS is Super Street Fight…

Exactly one year ago to this day, Spirit Tracks was released for the Nintendo DS. Initially, it was met with a rather diverse set of reviews by many gamers. Many hardcore Zelda fans considered it a huge upgrade over the previous Zelda DS title, Phantom Hourglass. Many others thought it was in the same vein as Phantom Hourglass, a big disappointment. While others thought it was just another amazing Zelda title added to the series. So one year later, what…

Just the other day I was looking over at GameRankings.com, a site that offers links to all the various reviews of a particular game, and it combines them to form an aggregated score. In particular I was looking to see how the various Zelda games racked up against one another, and the results I found were a bit surprising. It was no shock that Ocarina of Time topped the list, but how the games fell in line afterwords, was a…