Japan Review Check: Pokemon Black/White, Front Mission
Was Famitsu writing about the new Pokemon up there? No! It's actually a clip from their review of the original Pokemon Red/Green, released on the black-and-white Game Boy and reviewed in a February 1996 issue of Japan's leading game magazine. The score that first set of games received? One 8 and three 7's for a total of 29 points, not enough to earn it an editor's reward.
Oh, how times change! There's no denying that Famitsu's rating scores have inched upwards over the years -- something that's generated some controversy in Japan, especially considering how the president of the mag's publisher showed up in ads recently for a game that later received a perfect score. That scoring trend seems to be continuing, because Pokemon Black/White became the fifteenth game in Famitsu's history this week (and the sixth since the start of 2009) to earn four 10's from the review crew.
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"Catching monsters and building up a catalog of them is exactly like collecting baseball or trading cards," wrote Famitsu magazine. "Both raising and collecting them is fun, and the way different monsters are more likely to appear in the different-colored cartridges satisfies the collector's itch all the more. I wish there was more story to enjoy, though."