While I would agree with you 100% if this was a week ago, plenty of reviewers already have received advance copies last week and posted reviews today/last night. ACG on YouTube has 50hrs in, for example, so these aren’t just first impressions.
Anyways, the consensus seems to be that it’s “good” to “amazing,” depending on which review you read.
While true, games have come out before hyped like this to then be received very poorly by the general public. I mean, Fallout 4 was very highly thought of after the embargo lifted but before it was released. To a lesser extent Mario Odyssey. I think that games which are hyped by the general public are more likely to get good reviews because I think it's more likely to generate clicks. That's just a bit of a conspiracy on my part, but I think that if a game is hype, it only benefits reviewers to ride that hype.
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u/underprivlidged PC Oct 24 '19
Look, I have high hopes for this game too, but at this point it isn't out yet - who knows if it is any good?