Yesterday, Metacritic housed 9,335 negative reviews for
Death Stranding. Today, Metacritic is home to only 2,906. Metacritic is an aggregator of reviews from across the web similar to Rotten Tomatoes. However, Metacritic is predominantly known for covering video games.
Similar to Rotten Tomatoes, controversial titles will often be subject to review-bombs. It seems that this is what happened in this case (via
/r/Games). Metacritic's supposed reasoning for the removal of such a hefty amount of reviews is that many of them appeared to have been very low-effort and copy-pasted — a callsign of review bombs.
However, as the negative reviews for
Death Stranding piled on. Many supported the game by awarding it with positive reviews — in order to counteract the review-bombing. Metacritic may have taken action against the sudden surge in negative reviews but they didn't do anything about the recent positive ones. Thus,
Death Stranding's user score is now higher than ever.
8,446 positive reviews, 526 mixed reviews, and 2,906 negative reviews has amounted in
Death Stranding's Metacritic user score sitting at 7.4. Previously, the game's user score steadily sat at 6.2 and the review-bombing dragged it down to 5.4.
You can check out Death Stranding's Metacritic page here.
Sam Bridges must brave a world utterly transformed by the Death Stranding. Carrying the stranded remnants of the future in his hands, Sam embarks on a journey to reunite the shattered world one step at a time. What is the mystery of the Death Stranding? What will Sam discover on the road ahead? A genre defining gameplay experience holds these answers and more.
Death Stranding is currently available for the PlayStation 4.
PC version expected to release in Summer, 2020.