TITLE
Why an Obscure 2010 DSiWare Game Is the Highest User-Rated Nintendo Game on Metacritic
AUTHOR
Rebekah Valentine
PUBLICATION
IGN
YEAR
2023
ARTICLE TYPE
Article
FROM THE ARTICLE
Last week, a Reddit user by the name of u/SayFuzzyPickles42 took to r/Nintendo to ask a rather strange question:“Weird question – why is the highest user-reviewed Nintendo game of all time an obscure DSiWare game called Metal Torrent?”
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While the Nintendo subreddit seemed fairly quick to dismiss the question, FuzzyPickles had me intrigued. Why was Metal Torrent at the top of the Nintendo user review scores? The answer, as it turns out, was none of the things the Reddit community suggested. Rather, it appears to be the quiet work of one gamer who, in 2020, was very upset about a completely different video game, and took out their frustration on multiple Metacritic pages. And while their handiwork has largely been erased elsewhere on Metacritic, Metal Torrent’s dubiously earned crown remains as a strange artifact, and a reminder of how easily manipulated online score aggregators truly are.
GAMES MENTIONED
Metal Torrent