Why reviews don’t matter, Part 2
Because by any rational process of objective appraisal this is a terrible game, and reviewing it honestly you'd have to give it about 40% tops.
So why have I just played Slingo Supreme for about 11 hours straight? To be honest I can barely explain it, and in fact I'm not even going to try.
I'll just say that while the app's normal price of £2.99 is indefensible to the point of being laughable, the current 59p sale somehow makes it the kind of thing I feel able – nay, obliged in the name of integrity – to recommend, even while acknowledging that it's total rubbish. Make sense of that.
So quality is relative to price. Must be why I enjoyed Driv3r after picking it up for £3. I easily got £3 worth of entertsinment out of it.
Because by any rational thought process this is a terrible game, and reviewing it honestly you'd have to give it about 40% tops.
Wouldn't 40% be a little below average? Terrible to me suggests a below-10% rating like them what Dangerous Streets or Kick Off '96…
Well, I said 40% tops, and it'd be at the upper end of the "bad game" scale because God help me, I do actually enjoy playing it. And on those grounds, it would in fact be easier to make a case for 70-80% than it would be for 10%, though neither would be massively easy.
I really like this – thanks for the heads up – just spent about 2 hours unlocking stuff until the battery ran out.
I played it on autopilot until my battery ran out also. It's like coindozer – ostensibly rubbish but the lure of more "things" just keeps you playing constantly.
This is immense. Fabulously compulsive. My favourite part is the devil laughing.
That's NUMBERWANG!
Bah!
Hopelessly addicted.
FUCKING DEVIL!!!
I like when you beat him and he makes a sound like Cartman.
I just got 2.3 billion in a mental bouncing slingo chain. That should stop me playing it again anyway.
Really? When you're still a million points off the high score?
http://wosblog.podgamer.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/slingo.png
(Unless you really did score 2.3 billion, in which case kudos.)
No seriously – 2.3 billion. Won't let me post the screenshot on here for some reason.