Latest Videogamedunkey YouTube Sparks Sonic Frontiers Review Bombing - Kotaku

The Metacritic leafage for the PlayStation 5 mentation of Sonic Frontiers is presently being review-bombed, seemingly successful effect to the latest video from fashionable gaming YouTuber Videogamedunkey. As you’d expect, Sonic stans are coming backmost conscionable arsenic hard, defending the virtues of the bluish hedgehog’s latest 3D adventure. Sonic diehards assertion Dunkey viewers are down the bombing, but successful an unusual twist, the YouTuber maintains that Sonic fans are down the bombardment.

That said, there’s nary disputing that Dunkey’s caller video goes successful beauteous hard connected Sonic Frontiers, mocking its purported “open-zone gameplay” by showing instances of the crippled restricting his movement, among different criticisms. The video ends with a bid of side-by-side comparisons, meant to look absurd, that amusement the game’s precocious Metacritic idiosyncratic people comparative to those of respective different beloved games.

At the clip helium recorded, Sonic Frontiers had an 8.8 Metacritic idiosyncratic people compared to Breath of the Wild’s 8.7, Elden Ring’s 7.8, and Hades’ 8.8. Shortly aft the video debuted, Dunkey shared a screenshot connected Twitter showing 3 0-scored idiosyncratic reviews from Metacritic users with “Dunkey” successful their show names, alleging that “Sonic fans are reappraisal bombing their ain favourite crippled to marque [his] fans look bad.”

One of the screencapped reappraisal bombs reads “I thought I liked this crippled astatine first, but past I saw Dunkey’s video astir it, and past I realized that this crippled is really truly BAD.” Another says that the author, “had nary sentiment connected the crippled but aft seeing Dunkey’s reappraisal [they] came to the decision that this crippled conscionable is not good” earlier suggesting readers cheque retired much of Dunkey’s videos.

While each 3 of those reviews are presently nary longer connected Metacritic, Kotaku has recovered plentifulness of others that stay up, adding to Sonic Frontiers PS5’s abrupt drawstring of 0-scored idiosyncratic reviews.

Later, Dunkey added different tweet to his thread: “In the end, mode much affirmative reviews are being near than antagonistic (and it is 90% Sonic fans leaving both), and my volition was ne'er to nonstop reappraisal bombers.”

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Various Sonic Frontiers idiosyncratic reviews notation Dunkey, including a cleanable people from “Dunkeywaswrong” that hails it arsenic “the champion 3D Sonic since Sonic Adventure 2.” Another idiosyncratic writes “Dunkey fans reappraisal bombing lone accrued people ;).” User Shaydows writes that they “would person fixed this an 8, but acknowledgment to Dunkey’s fans I had to alteration it to a 10.” Long communicative short, yet different illustration of video crippled fans utilizing Metacritic arsenic an ideological battleground.

Kotaku reached retired to Videogamedunkey for comment.

At the clip of writing, Sonic Frontiers has an 8.5 idiosyncratic metascore connected PS5, an 8.5 connected PC, and an 8.3 connected Xbox Series X.