Sonic Frontiers Review-Bombed On Metacritic After Dunkey Video
Staff, 2022-11-14 17:30:00,
The Metacritic page for the PlayStation 5 version of Sonic Frontiers is currently being review-bombed, seemingly in response to the latest video from popular gaming YouTuber Videogamedunkey. As you’d expect, Sonic stans are coming back just as hard, defending the virtues of the blue hedgehog’s latest 3D adventure. Sonic diehards claim Dunkey viewers are behind the bombing, but in an odd twist, the YouTuber maintains that Sonic fans are behind the bombardment.
That said, there’s no disputing that Dunkey’s new video goes in pretty hard on Sonic Frontiers, mocking its purported “open-zone gameplay” by showing instances of the game restricting his movement, among other criticisms. The video ends with a series of side-by-side comparisons, meant to appear absurd, that show the game’s high Metacritic user score relative to those of several other beloved games.
At the time he recorded, Sonic Frontiers had an 8.8 Metacritic user score compared to 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 showing three 0-scored user reviews from Metacritic users with “Dunkey” in their display names, alleging that “Sonic fans are review bombing their own favorite game to make [his] fans look bad.”
One of the screencapped review bombs reads “I thought I liked this game at first, but then I saw Dunkey’s video about it, and then I realized that this…
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