"Castlevania: Lords of Shadow 2" has been released for a couple of days now and so far the review scores are ranging from average to bad. Because of lackluster reviews, studio boss Enric Alvarez reacted and said people who write "Castlevania: Lords of Shadow 2" bad reviews are "blind and stupid."
In an interview with Eurogamer Spain, Enric Alvarez was asked to comment on the "Castlevania: Lords of Shadow 2" bad review scores, and in particular, Edge's 4/10 rating of the game.
In the translation provided by vg24/7, When asked if Edge's score perhaps swayed the opinions of other people thus leading to them not buying the game, Enric Alvarez said "This is another important issue. There are a few publications that set trends and from here there are other publications that follow and dare not deviate much. The first LOS, which has a 85 on Metacritic, also got bad marks major sites, yet the game was high."
"It is true that the Edge liked the first and this dislike. But I also find that this has happened is totally unfair.One must be blind or stupid to give it a 4/10 for a game of this quality. With a 4/10 people interpret it is a crappy game, badly done, it breaks, with mechanics that do not work with some awful graphics, and if I were an analyst would know this, which I do not think los2 a score of crappy game deserves.
On how videogame journalists received the game in general, Alvarez explained, "Man, reading as what things I take on the positive side, I'm glad that as what people are writing games instead of making them. I have to take it well, otherwise I would devote to something else. But there are also people who have appreciated. Any game is a very complex work and I sometimes I find that in specialized gaming press lack professionalism to judge things for what they are and not what they wanted it to be about."
"I agree that in the end it is an opinion, and opinion is totally respectable, but do not confuse a review and analysis. The analysis will mainly review the object and the subject will primarily reviewer.Can you say, 'I do really like the rock but I hate the opera', this is an opinion, not an analysis.If I had to do an analysis of 'Don Giovanni' would not even know where to start and this year lack of honesty in the gaming press. Lots of people analyze games and is not up for the game you analyzed."
"This is a problem because after this influences the decision to buy from people, and then also have an influence at the level of their opportunities for developers, because we are in a world in which the simplification of information is the order of day and if you can classify a developer according to the note on Metacritic for what you do. Do not misunderstand me, there are very good people writing about video games, have the opinion they have."
"I speak very good people, for example, destroyed the first LOS. It is not about being right or wrong, it's a matter of talking about what you have to talk. When you say in a review that the textures or the engine of a video game are not high, or that the gameplay is not up to you to know what you say. You can not just say 'I did not like, and as I do not like is bad', that is an infinite arrogance."
What do you think? Is Enric Alvarez right and that videogame journalists have gone too far or does "Castlevania: Lord of Shadows 2" bad reviews are deserved? Sound off in the comments below!
