Why is Digimon Survive being review-bombed on Metacritic?
Bandai Namco's Digimon Survive is finally here after an immense wait. The visual-novel/strategy-RPG hybrid from developer Hyde was stuck in development hell for a while, with the latest iteration of the title needing to be rebuilt entirely from scratch.
While many fans have embraced this latest narrative-driven adventure's new gameplay structure, some have not taken well to it.
In a baffling turn of events, the game is being review-bombed on the aggregate review site Metacritic. Review bombing is the deliberate practice done (usually) by multiple users who abuse a critic site's user scoring system to leave multiple negative scores.
This "spam" of negative scores aims to outnumber the positive scores, bringing down the overall review score of a title.
The game's user score yesterday sat around the 0-2 rating mark. It has since been counter-review-bombed with positive scores, raising them significantly.
Currently, Metacritic user scores for the PC, PlayStation 4, Nintendo Switch, and Xbox One versions sit at 7.0, 7.1, 7.6, and 6.2, respectively. So why such hostility?
From reading the user comments, it seems these fans are not happy with the game's direction. One said:
Another added:
A third gamer opined:
Bemoaning Digimon Survive for being clearly what it was is honestly fairly immature. The game's marketing has always proudly flaunted its graphical adventure design, with a heavy focus on narrative, menu-based navigation, and cursor-driven exploration.
So these "fans" have no one but themselves to blame for going in blind, especially when VNs are a particularly niche genre.
However, some fans criticized the game's presentation and design flaws. Key arguments center around sloppy animations, weak writing, forgettable characters, and
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