The Metacritic web page for the PlayStation 5 model of Sonic Frontiers is at the moment being review-bombed, seemingly in response to the newest video from well-liked gaming YouTuber Videogamedunkey. As you’d count on, Sonic stans are coming again simply as exhausting, defending the virtues of the blue hedgehog’s newest 3D journey. Sonic diehards declare Dunkey viewers are behind the bombing, however in an odd twist, the YouTuber maintains that Sonic followers are behind the bombardment.
That stated, there’s no disputing that Dunkey’s new video goes in fairly exhausting on Sonic Frontiers, mocking its purported “open-zone gameplay” by exhibiting cases of the sport limiting his motion, amongst different criticisms. The video ends with a sequence of side-by-side comparisons, meant to look absurd, that present the sport’s excessive Metacritic consumer rating relative to these of a number of different beloved video games.
On the time he recorded, Sonic Frontiers had an 8.8 Metacritic consumer rating in comparison with Breath of the Wild’s 8.7, Elden Ring’s 7.8, and Hades’ 8.8. Shortly after the video debuted, Dunkey shared a screenshot on Twitter exhibiting three 0-scored consumer critiques from Metacritic customers with “Dunkey” of their show names, alleging that “Sonic followers are overview bombing their very own favourite sport to make [his] followers look unhealthy.”
One of many screencapped overview bombs reads “I believed I appreciated this sport at first, however then I noticed Dunkey’s video about it, after which I noticed that this sport is definitely actually BAD.” One other says that the creator, “had no opinion on the sport however after seeing Dunkey’s overview [they] got here to the conclusion that this sport simply is just not good” earlier than suggesting readers try extra of Dunkey’s movies.
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Whereas all three of these critiques are at the moment now not on Metacritic, Kotaku has discovered loads of others that stay up, including to Sonic Frontiers PS5’s sudden string of 0-scored consumer critiques.
Later, Dunkey added one other tweet to his thread: “In the long run, far more constructive critiques are being left than damaging (and it’s 90% Sonic followers leaving each), and my intention was by no means to ship overview bombers.”
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Varied Sonic Frontiers consumer critiques point out Dunkey, together with an ideal rating from “Dunkeywaswrong” that hails it as “one of the best 3D Sonic since Sonic Journey 2.” One other consumer writes “Dunkey followers overview bombing solely elevated rating ;).” Consumer Shaydows writes that they “would have given this an 8, however due to Dunkey’s followers I needed to change it to a ten.” Lengthy story quick, yet one more instance of online game followers utilizing Metacritic as an ideological battleground.
Kotaku reached out to Videogamedunkey for remark.
On the time of writing, Sonic Frontiers has an 8.5 consumer metascore on PS5, an 8.5 on PC, and an 8.3 on Xbox Collection X.
