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Kunai Team Discusses The "Very Stressful" Impacts Of Metacritic Review-Bombing

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"You hope it doesn't affect sales".

'Review-bombing' seems to be becoming more and more popular these days, with
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becoming the latest game to receive such treatment from a disgruntled stranger. If you're unaware, the term refers to the act of giving games a very low and unjustified user score on websites such as Metacritic, lowering its overall user review score average and therefore indicating that it's a 'bad' game.

We've almost come to expect it with certain major releases - both major Pokémon
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have been
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on Switch, with fans being quick to accuse developer Game Freak of every trick under the sun, and games like
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simply for being exclusive to the console - but the trend appears to be moving towards indie games, too.

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