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The Metacritic user score for the PS5-exclusive title Marvel’s Wolverine started at 6.4, climbed to 6.7, and then fell back to around 6.4 after a wave of suspicious 10/10 ratings was removed — a development that became a hot topic on 5ch’s hardware/industry (“Geha”) board. While major outlets have largely scored the game in the 60s, posters shared screenshots showing that many of the accounts behind the deleted 10/10 reviews had only ever reviewed this one title. Opinion in the thread was split, with some drawing a contrast to Nintendo titles — where removing suspicious reviews tends to raise the score instead — and others wondering whether a wave of fake 0/10 reviews had also been quietly purged at the same time.
User score starts at 6.4
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Gets bombarded with 10/10 ratings and climbs to 6.7! 😤
Source: metacritic.com / original article here
What people said
· Remove the fake reviews, score goes down ↓
■ Nintendo games
· Remove the fake reviews, score goes up ↑
Weird, huh!
No joke, this is exactly the problem lol
It's painfully obvious which camp is behind it
Somehow everything the Sony camp does trends in the worst direction
It genuinely makes no sense that this looks worse than the low-spec Switch 2
https://video.twimg.com/amplify_video/2100253715265458178/vid/avc1/1280×720/XiNDJH57QP6b2dos.mp4?tag=14
Where did they even blow 40 billion yen (~$270M)?
Probably went to "entertainment" expenses or something?
How can you be so sure it was only the 10/10s???
Even if there was 0/10 sabotage too, those scores would get flagged and removed at the same time
And once the removal happened, the score dropped to 6.4 ← get what that means?
Proof that the major outlets' ~60 scores were about right
Even Digital Foundry praised the graphics, so that's probably where it's earning its points
Though even the graphics have rough spots here and there, like the lava and water
Marvel must be furious at Sony
https://ps-store-db.live/static/cards/shared/2026-09-17-36789241e149086d.png
Capcom's got every right to be mad
Reviews really need to come from people who actually paid for the game, like store reviews
But you guys don't even buy it, do you
On Steam, the real question is what percentage of those reviews are tagged as "refunded"
Tons of accounts giving it a 10 looked exactly like this
Way too blatant, lol
Could at least give it a 9, or review a few other games too — put in some effort 😭
Well no wonder it got deleted
These "only ever reviewed this one game" accounts have been around forever
They haven't even changed their methods — they really haven't learned a thing lol
It's got a low Metascore and got panned across the board by major outlets — review-bombing a dud like that isn't going to make it sell
Compared to however much of the dev budget vanished without a trace, astroturfing costs are basically pocket change
Though they're clearly putting effort into the wrong things
Buying Bungie was a waste of money too, wasn't it…
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Games today are facing a crisis of creativity.
Companies pour out massive promotional pushes and mount an aggressive sales campaign before the game's actual fun has even been discussed — a hit-and-run kind of sales tactic that's now treated as completely normal.
That's Kojima Productions getting cut for Wolverine's sake 😭
If they'd just spent the money they poured into Wolverine and Tokon on this instead, they could've easily afforded it
Once the 10/10 bombing got removed, the score just kept dropping…
There's no stopping it now
Like energy that's already started flowing, it can't be held back
Even the user score's gone full Wolverine colors (i.e., it's all downhill from here)
Major review outlet: "Fire Emblem is hundreds of times more fun than Wolverine"
"Fire Emblem: Fortune's Weave is a remarkably intelligent work, with deep and rich themes, characters, and gameplay systems.
It's wonderful that, in the very same month the Wolverine movie released, one of the three major console makers/publishers is respecting players' intelligence and striving to make a more sophisticated game, rather than being trapped in the same tired 'best practices' repeated endlessly."
https://www.digitallydownloaded.net/2026/09/review-fire-emblem-fortunes-weave-nintendo-switch-2.html
Background and Talking Points
Metacritic has a system that detects when the same accounts post a burst of extreme scores in a short window and strips those reviews out as a batch. The phenomenon of “the score drops once a wave of 10/10 ratings gets removed” isn’t unusual on its own, and it has happened repeatedly with major Western titles too. That said, this thread comes from 5ch’s hardware/industry (“Geha”) board, where discussions tend to fall along pro-Sony vs. pro-Nintendo lines, and it’s worth noting that the conversation also included comparisons to the opposite pattern seen with Nintendo titles, along with unsubstantiated speculation about Sony’s PR spending. This article sticks to the verifiable score changes and the review screenshots, and leaves out unsupported claims about companies or individuals as well as discriminatory language.
*This article is excerpted and summarized from the 5ch (Hardware/Industry, “Geha”) thread “[LMAO] Sony’s Wolverine user score drops back to 6.4 after mass deletion of 10/10 review-bombing www.”
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