 Hey everyone, I'm kicking it a little bit old school today, a little voice over gameplay for this video. I might do a few more of these voice over gameplay videos just for the sake of saving me some time. That doesn't mean I'm not going to be on camera of course, there's going to be plenty of videos that I'll be on camera for between live streams and podcasts and here's the news episodes when I feel like there's enough news to actually make one. There wasn't that much news today that seemed interesting anyways, interesting enough to make a video. But I do want to talk about an interesting thing happening with a game and it's not the first time this has happened, but it's the first time it's happened this blatantly in a long time. But before I do, I have to remind you because hey we only have like 24 hours left or so by the time this video publishes to enter our current giveaway, that's right 24 hours left to enter. And the requirements are quite simple. 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But it's still kind of a big deal. Maybe you have a friend, a sibling, a parent, somebody who maybe could use a Switch that maybe might not be willing to buy it for themselves. So you never know. There's always that possibility out there. Otherwise, yeah, let's get into this video. You see there's a new game that came out across multiple platforms. And today I'm going to be glancing at PlayStation 4. Actually you know what? Let's just look at everything. PlayStation 4, Xbox, whatever. It doesn't really matter because I don't think it matters which version of the game we look at. And we're talking about Bollin Wonderworld. Now I have not played this game. I want to make that very, very clear. I have not played this game. I have checked out the demo. The demo really wasn't that great. But you know we need to try to be fair. It's just a demo. But the actual game is out and there are some reviews. Now an interesting thing happened with this game where they didn't really give people time to review the game. Review copies went out essentially the day of release. This meant the game would come out and there would not be any, you know, meta-critic scores, any open-critic scores or anything. There would be nothing, hardly any reviews, hardly any talk about the game from a review perspective. And when this happens, it usually shows a lack of confidence in the game. And then it's a bit interesting because the person behind Bollin Wonderworld is actually a pretty big name in the industry. And the game actually had a lot of promise when it was initially announced. But it turns out the final product might not be that great. In fact, initial reviews coming in are not good. So here we are just looking at the initial reviews coming in on multiple platforms here. So we have for the Xbox Series X, I think, right, no, this is the Switch version, sorry. And you see the initial three reviews forgot from digital trends with a 30 out of 100. Nintendo Life with a 30 out of 100. Pocket Tactics with a 20, you know, a 20 out of 100. That's really, really horrible. And then go over to Xbox, the world of Xbox, we got the Series X here. We see a 47 out of 100 by IGN Italia, it's a little bit higher. A 40 out of VGC. Not looking good. Next up, PlayStation 5, which does have a Metacritic of 59. You'll see multiplayer.it with a 70, Hobby Console 68, Vandal 55, Noisy Pixel with a 50, IGN France with a 50, ScreenRant with a 40. Yeah, there is one positive review here in Video Chums at an 82. I don't, you know, he says, if you have a soft spot for classic 3D platformers and a manage of game worlds, you'll have a lovely time with Bollywood Wonderworld with a heartfelt story, plenty of cuteness, and a clever costume system, and oodles of stages to master. It's one incredible adventure. I'm not here to tell you, by the way, if this is a good game or not, because I don't know. Okay, I'm probably not going to be playing it. And it's funny, some of the things that they come in here like the story and all that are blasted by a lot of reviews. I've read a bunch of these reviews. It's kind of funny. Over here, we have Bollywood Wonderworld on PC, 65 by Atomics, 60 by PC Invasion, 40 by IGN, 30 by Game Skinny, and over here on PlayStation 4, we have 50 from Goddus Geek and 40 from Gameable. But one thing you're going to notice is, despite getting basically dog shit reviews and the game only being over a couple of days, we have a ton of positive user scores. Look at this. 808.0, user score 8.6, user score 7.8, user score 8.9, user score 7.7. These are all significantly higher user scores than the actual game is getting reviewed. Now we have seen user reviews and critical reviews vary in many different ways. Somewhere the critic scores are much higher and the user score is much lower, usually from review bombing, others where, hey, users just generally actually like a game that critics don't. Is this one of those things? Well, let's click and find out. Here we are on Switch. All right. We got the most, it's listed by Most Helpful, by the way. These are considered the most helpful user reviews. 10. Okimo, definitely an incredible good platformer game, a joyful and colorful game to experience. I can easily recommend this. 17 out of 17 people found that useful. 10. C-Y-T-Y-B-O-L. Don't listen to the negative reviews here. Because these people don't even play this game. This game is actually a good platform game. Seems like maybe a surreal review, maybe? I don't know. All in all, the first thing I value in a game is undoubtedly its gameplay. And in that ball and wonder world is promoted with the highest rating. The highest rating of what? A large part of the level created in this game seem to be created in a bizarre way, but at the same time in an extremely clever way. Hidden passages. Because you've never had hidden passages in a platformer before. 18. Secret Streets and intriguing maps accompany the work that winks at the classic games of past generations in a good way, especially if you love games like Knights or Croc. 19. You also love all in one world. It can be more than satisfied despite everything, and I would say I can confidently recommend it, especially if you are looking for an intriguing, surprising platformer. And the soundtrack is great. 19. Umaritoulos, entertaining and nice platform game overall with encouraging puzzle design. See these actually sound pretty good, but let's just keep going. So the Artune, basically one of the best platform games I've ever played. Okay? Whoever this person is, interesting and entertaining platform game. This random X, Y, L, E, N, N, U. This game is charming and a nice platform game. It is unjustified, attacked because of their own only graphics. So someone claiming that the game is reviewed poorly because of the graphics. The graphics are actually praised in a lot of the reviews. Um, Amonex, I have to admit, I'm surprised by the huge upgrades that this game has and other level respects that they use for the demo. There's a lot of cool puzzle ideas here. Itthui, probably in the recent best platform of the last decade, the most original and surprisingly fun to play, 40 out of 49, fun that you helpful apparently, Gurren in a mode of game. They hit the right spot in a good way. UGHYC, I love the time that I've passed with this marvelous and colorful game, almost unique to its genre. Ever heard, love so much gameplay of this incredible game, the demo doesn't give the game justice, buy the game and see for yourself. Kirov, Fusco Rho, Oformius, E, F, H, Y, N, best game I've ever played, best game I've ever played. Okay. And you're going to see a similar story when we go into the user's score here. Lots of 10s, a ton of 10s, it's like the same people, the exact same people across different games. Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, this game is absolute garbage. We got some zeroes popping up near some fours. Not as many positives there. We got a Bowel and Wonderland here for PlayStation 5. Again, the same people with some other random user names saying the same stuff on a different version of the game as if they own this game across multiple versions of the game as we have the same people saying the same shit on the same, you see what's happening. By the way, the user reviews are sorted by platform. So these reviews are specific to that platform and it just goes and it goes and it goes. Do you know what's happening, folks? What happened is, and this is a bit speculative, a bit speculative. But also, part of this is clearly true. These games have bodied user reviews. Bodied user reviews. This game, Bowel and Wonderland across every platform, there are bodied user reviews to artificially inflate the user score around launch to try to increase sales at a time when most of the games don't have meta scores or open critic scores because there's not enough reviews in existence. So the idea is to try to get a game to sell through positive user scores. Now what does this mean? Why would this happen with this particular game? Well the game wasn't well received with demo, hasn't been well received with the reviews. It's from all accounts, and I know of two people who have given it a try, it seems, according to those people, and I tend to trust their opinions because their gaming tastes a line with mine and I like platformers. The game's dog shit. Okay, that's what they said. Not me. Again, I haven't played it. Maybe I will, just to see how dog shit it is. But it's interesting to me because the only way that this happens, that I can logically conclude, because this only benefits the people who made the game, is that this, I apologize for making an accusation like this, but it appears to me that the people behind Bile and Wonderland have paid a company to do bot reviews on Metacritic to artificially inflate the score and try to increase sales. This by the way is widely frowned upon on Metacritic and actually against their terms of service, but you obviously have to prove that that happened. I don't know that you could prove it other than seeing some of the same usernames across the same stuff posting the same comments. It's embarrassing. I'm kind of frustrated at seeing this because one thing I appreciate in the gaming industry and I'm sure you guys can agree is honesty. We want honesty, whether it's from user reviews, whether it's from outlets, whether it's from YouTubers, random people you follow on Twitter, family members, we want honesty. We value it and our relationships we value it and our news coverage, like you want the news and then if you want to hear opinions on the news, you want to hear honest opinions on the news. You don't want to hear canned responses or market speak, you want to hear that person's interpretation of the truth and that's what I'm trying to give you here is my interpretation is this company behind Bile and Wonderworld paid for bots to come in and bot it up and inflate the user scores because these user scores are a lot of 10 out of 10. You get away from the 10 out of 10, the 1.9 out of 10 in here by the way. This might actually be a legit person maybe because if that is 9 out of 10 it makes me want to think it's the real but then it's also in a different language so I don't really understand what they're saying, they compare it to Sonic and Mario. But then you get to some of the low reviews, like this game is alright, overall pretty poor with a lot of terrible choices in it but someone has some merits especially in music and art direction. So again music praised, art direction praised but the one review says hey reviewers are land based, they're not. People like the art and the music, it's not the art and the music, it's the gameplay that's the problem. It's the level design that's the problem, it's just not good according to a lot of people that have played it anyways. I think that Ballin Underworld, sorry I want to make sure I get it right, it needs to be careful here, the devs behind it and the company because if they paid and it gets discovered that they paid, they will basically be blacklisted in the entire industry. I sincerely hope that's not the case, that they had nothing to do with this, that some independent fan or maybe a family member of a dev or something went ahead and did this of their own volition and it has nothing to do with the company itself but honestly I'm a little bit worried about the people behind this game and that I really hope they didn't do this because this is an industry blackball moment if this is what it appears to be. Again I hope I'm wrong but time will tell. Anyways, I'm Nathan Robledance from Nintendo Prime, let me know what you think, do you think this is just much to do about nothing or do you think they didn't pay for it because some of those reviews, red fine, the English was good, normally when you have bots it's a lot of broken English so it's possible that maybe people just legitimately love this game, maybe this is a case of user reviews being much higher than game reviews and just gamers disagreeing but some of these user names are just so random and the same users on each thing making the exact same comment across multiple platforms doesn't make sense, it just doesn't make sense and I've done a user review on Metacritic, I know my review did not appear across multiple platforms I was in Assassin's Creed game that I reviewed for Wii U and I put my opinion in a user review and it did not appear for the other platforms, I double checked so I know they have to specifically go to the platforms and pick this so it's not like oh it's just one comment that's most helpful and is being spread across all the reviews, no it's specific to that version, that's another red flag, it just frustrates me to see this happen, you know it frustrates me to imagine a company potentially being involved in a you know a scandal like this with what it was and maybe they just thought the game is so small like it wasn't gonna do crazy sales maybe they just were hoping to recoup great dev costs or something right like but the game was pushed recently obviously by Square Enix and I just I really hope that they didn't do what it appears that they did because this is embarrassing we shouldn't we shouldn't be seeing this happen I'm sorry I I just man let me know your thoughts in this down in the comments below I am Nathan Roberts from the center prime I just had to call this out it's incredibly frustrating I alright folks I'll catch you in the next video