Metroidvania Kunaiwhich authors Dark devotion released in Steam February 6, received mostly positive reviews in the store Valve and an average user score of 81 on Metacritic. But in a few days, the latest estimate suddenly collapsed to 1.7 due to the mass of negative reviews.
Oddly enough, neither the game itself, nor its creators did anything. They just covered the usual recent bombardment. With one significant difference: this time it was the work of the one and only person who simply chose a random game.
The “intruder” himself explained on Reddit (the original post has been deleted), that for such an accomplishment, you only need an email service in which you can create many mailboxes for free. The culprit also admitted that because of him the assessment Insurgency: Sandstorm decreased from 8.1 to 3.6.
The Metacritic Aggregator does not check if the game was purchased by a reviewer. He willingly accepts any mailing addresses, including doubtful ones, does not look at IP addresses and account creation dates. So the enthusiast created about two hundred accounts and from each rated unhappy games at 0 points.
From time to time, a variety of games are bombarded with negative ratings for a variety of reasons. Recently, by such means, players have been trying to express disapproval of any developer actions, such as entering microtransactions and transferring games to another store.
In Metacritic, an assessment that seems unfair can be appealed, and moderators will remove it. Now thanks to this, the Kunai score has risen to 7.8 points. However, as the studio claims Turtleblaze, it took time to analyze the situation, which employees could devote to fixing bugs and improving the game.
