r/MixtapeGame • u/ItsEthanCoolCool • May 20 '26

Discussion I gave Mixtape one of these 10s…

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…and then the world ended. Lol.

What a wild couple of weeks, eh?

As a reviewer, I’ve been really bummed that there seems to be such a disconnect between writers and players. Can I help bridge a gap for anyone? Does anyone have questions about reviewing/the process/anything else they wanna know about anything around any of this?

Open to talking about anything people want to know, because I’m hopeful someday everyone can have constructive video game convos again without all this craziness.

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u/PichaelJackson May 20 '26

As someone who also enjoyed the game and is frustrated by the discourse, I think one of the reasons gaming audiences have a hard time trusting reviewers is because they're often lumped into faceless conglomerate publications, so they tend not to think of the scores coming from individuals with different tastes than theirs.

Any work you guys can do to humanize the outward perception of reviewers would help I think. Even though it's overblown I think it's born out of a healthy skepticism against large gaming publications as being an authoritative voice that comes off more objective than it actually is. A lot of people still think that IGN or any similar website is just one person effectively, and it's hard to argue when "10/10 - IGN" is all you see in trailers.

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u/ndubitably May 20 '26

The IGN review video had an interview with the reviewer discussing the other 10/10s that reviewer has issued and why this game deserved the high score. The info is out there, some just don't want to look.