Needs a purging.: Eight Point Eight

https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/EightPointEight

Yeah. Anyone else see a problem here?

Note: This is not Complaining About Reviews You Don't Like.

Guess what most of the entries have gotten their knickers in a twist over. Anyone else up for bringing this page down an example or seven?

Chainsawing any example that doesn't even mention a fan uproar would probably be a good place to start.

I would suggest a name change for this trope. Eight Point Eight doesn't really sound wiki-friendly. Its too specific. :)

Teacher's pet.: Pillars of Moral Character.

At a cursory glance, some of it doesn't seem to be Complaining About Reviews You Dont Like, so much as Complaining About Reviews That Dont Make Sense.

For example, the reviews that took points away from Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn because of it's high difficulty level (an attraction of the series) and lack of Mii support (by that criteria, many Wii games that got high scores from those same sources should have been docked points for this reason).

It still doesn't quite fit the trope definition (I don't remember any uproar about it), but it's not like someone's just randomly bashing a review.

A slightly more pressing issue is that reviews that were higher than average/expected are labeled as inversions, even though the very first sentence of the definition says that this trope applies to both high and low scores.

edited 10th Oct '10 7:04:07 PM by Twilightdusk

The burden of proof could be a bit of a problem. Firstly, getting more than one reference might require the Other  ¹

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of doing so on each noun. Secondly, a controversy in a magazine fifteen years ago is unlikely to have any online proof outside possibly biased fansites.

Any example which doesn't specify what the controversy was should be in the firing line. If there's some proof somewhere or someone can add to the text to explain why it's an example, okay. Others, I'm not sure.

edited 12th Oct '10 5:42:02 AM by halfmillennium

It's a very low level of burden of proof. If an example stats that "people were angry about this." then it fits. Also note the alternate criteria of a review that is significantly different than other reviews for the same game (giving a game a 6.5 when others are giving it the 8-9 range.)

Examples that don't mention either can be purged safely.

edited 12th Oct '10 12:26:03 PM by Twilightdusk

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