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Hi-Fi Rush gets reverse review bombed after Microsoft shutters Tango Gameworks (www.dexerto.com)

submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by nanoUFO@sh.itjust.works to c/games@sh.itjust.works

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[–] MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz 171 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

Microsoft furiously writing down the lesson: shut.... studios down.... to.. boost... reviews. Got it! Thanks!

[–] nightwatch_admin@feddit.nl 29 points 1 month ago

Now do the Windows division!

[–] Fedizen@lemmy.world 13 points 1 month ago

Microsoft looking back and forth between the "lay off bethesda button" and starfield

[–] slock@lemmy.world 70 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The massive influx of new ratings could also simply be linked to the fact that the game is included in this month's humble choice, adding a ton of new players

[–] crony@lemmy.cronyakatsuki.xyz 13 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Literally the reason I downloaded and played the game yesterday.

Really loving it, makes my 400 hours in osu somewhat worth it.

Also run's beautifully on linux.

[–] MHLoppy@fedia.io 61 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I'm not sure it qualifies as "reverse review bombing" if the recent review +/- percentage matches the all-time percentage. There's just more reviews because of the shutdown, the ratio of positive vs negative hasn't meaningfully changed (97% positive overall, 97% positive recently).

[–] Mkengine@feddit.de 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Does review bombing have to be negative? For me it was always a big pile of reviews in a short time, like dropping a bomb, but without inherent rating.

[–] MHLoppy@fedia.io 2 points 1 month ago

It's normally negative, yeah, hence the "reverse review bombing" implying that they're positive reviews.

[–] Subverb@lemmy.world 21 points 1 month ago

Thor at Pirate Software played it and really liked it, probably part of that.

[–] RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

Cool.

Now do Ghostwire. Because that one was also fun.