as I believe it to be the best Mario Kart yet.
Which 3 tracks would you say are your favorite and why? How do you feel about the Battle Mode courses?
The only thing that bothers me about this review is the timing of it. Nintendo has thier backs against the wall, and desperatly needs Mario Kart 8 to ship a ton of consoles.
Kind of been a problem for awhile. Pikmin 3 hasn't done it, Wonderful 101 hasn't done it, Super Mario 3D World hasn't done it, Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze hasn't done it. Maybe Mario Kart 8 will do it but if Super Mario 3D World couldn't with all the positive reviews it got, I wouldn't expect Mario Kart 8 to do it no matter how many great reviews it got.
This review is telling people that not only is MK8 not that good of a game, but that it's not worth buying a console over too. Whether you said that or not is beside the point, your low score implies it. And people will take this review seriously
That's amazing considering how many people say they weren't even aware of this site before. If I saw a bunch of reviews that were positive from a lot of regular sites I visited and then saw one that was negative from a site I never heard of, I know I'd suddenly put a lot more weight to what this unknown site was saying than the ones I trusted before.
And I guess when this site gave Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze a 9.5 out of 10, Super Mario 3D World a 10 out of 10, Wonderful 101 a 9 out of 10 and Pikmin 3 a 9.5 out of 10, nobody took it seriously and that's why the games didn't sell more and save the Wii U. But this 7.5 score everyone will take seriously and immediately cancel pre-orders and sell off their Wii U's and buy PS4's instead. Right.
Guess what? The 3DS is selling quite well but nobody came here complaining when Yoshi's New Island got a 6 out of 10. Why is that? Because it didn't matter since the 3DS is selling well? How does that make any difference? A game is good or bad regardless of how well a system is selling. Just like a movie is good or bad regardless of how many tickets it sells. There can be bad movies that make a lot of money and good movies that don't. It's not the reviewers job to sell tickets. It's the movie studio's job. A reviewer just assesses the job that's been done.
Simply becouse it appears to be a Nintendo friendly site! So a website that uses Nintendo's name to help promote themselves, kicks Nintendo when thier on the ground.
Since it is a site that follows Nintendo products and only reviews games released on Nintendo systems, I guess a better name would be Xbox News Station. Yes, the name Nintendo is used because that's the site's focus. If they are using Nintendo to promote themselves, I would think you should have heard of this site long before they posted this review.
For your info, this site used to be called PlanetGameCube because it covered Gamecube games. With the Wii release, it was renamed Nintendo World Report to keep from changing its name for every Nintendo console release and that's the way it has stuck. So, yes, just as it "appears", it is a Nintendo Friendly site. However, that doesn't mean that it is automatically going to praise every Nintendo game that gets released. Or perhaps you think Game & Wario should have been automatically given a 10 out of 10 by the reviewers here since this site has Nintendo in the name and by not doing so is kicking Nintendo when they're down. Or is it possible that not every Nintendo game is perfect?
And as far as the click-bait theory, well I don't know this website good enough to make an assumption about that. But what I will say is that i've never visited this website before, and didn't even know it existed until I saw the ridiculous 7.5 rating it gave to MK8. So whether this review was intentionally made for click-bait or not, like i said, it wouldn't be right for me to comment on. But it did draw me in.
You won't comment about it being click-bait but you will still talk about it to the effect that you see it as being that way.