Go fry yourself

[Super Christ]

Hmm, the post I recall making seems to have vanished. Anyway, my own thought is this: I enjoy the series more for the stories than the games, and I'm going to pick this up because there hasn't yet been an entry in the main numbered series I haven't liked. Yet.

My original post was basically that a lot of the negative things being said about the game are by japanese gamers, and so by people who have played the game. It, by and large, is not being bashed merely by hearsay. I'm withholding judgment until I play it, but the things being said are not building my confidence. While I prefer the story, good gameplay helps too and in my opinion that has been going downhill since they got rid of the world map in X.

[Edit] Found the post, don't know why it wasn't showing when I first looked through the thread, anyway...

Anyhow, what Yeargdribble said. Even Famitsu didn't give it a perfect score, and at this point the scores they give are pretty heavily influenced by advertising revenue. And although I hate the *chans with a passion, I do fail to see how the general sentiment on 2ch is not a reasonable barometer of the Japanese response to the game, given that it is the largest internet forum in Japan and possibly the world.

I agree with the OP about giving it a try before deciding; I just think that getting so worked up about how everyone else feels about it is overreacting just a bit - I'm guessing the original thread title was "Go f- yourself"?