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With Nintendo’s new simulation RPG “Fire Emblem: Bansenkou” about to launch, predictions about its Metascore were heating up on 5ch’s Hardware/Industry board (aka “Geha”). No official score has been posted yet, but posters kept measuring it against the PS5-exclusive “Marvel’s Wolverine,” which holds a Metascore of 77. The thread filled up with snark about the internet meme “NBP,” along with a mix of hope and anxiety about the game’s director and writer.
What people said
Rude much? It's 77, not 78!
Please stop inflating it by a point.
Wolverine and its 77 — now THAT'S the trash game of the century lol
Unicorn Overlord was really well made and fun, though.
Meanwhile Wolverine only manages a 77 even with its own +30 "SBP" bonus… lol
The sad part is Wolverine's 77 already includes a +40 "Sony favoritism" bonus… so it's really a 37-point trash game 😭
The director's Kusakihara, and going by the dialogue shown so far, the vocabulary level is nothing like Komuro's work.
Sony: "Anyone who scores it low is fired!"
Koei Tecmo alone gave us Three Hopes.
Kusakihara alone gives us Bansenkou.
Bansenkou's quality will tell us once and for all whether Three Houses was just a lucky punch.
What about the Engage guy?
They built it on lessons learned from Three Houses, so you can't really say one way or the other. Also, like with Poke-Poko (likely a nickname for another title Koei Tecmo modeled), Koei Tecmo's character modeling is genuinely excellent.
That's rare — jumping into FE for the first time now of all times.
Being serious for a second: I think it's the kind of series where you can start with either one, no problem.
…Piggy? (a derogatory nickname for Nintendo fanboys on this board)
Nothing happens lol
Don't lower the bar.
Even at 78, that's still higher than Wolverine, though.
Don't Nintendo titles usually drop the evening before, Japan time?
Early reviews are already out, you know.
You're seriously pitting an SRPG against the newest AAA game from one of SIE's ace studios?
So Wolverine — which had Sweet Baby Inc. involved — only gets a 77 even WITH the bonus?
So you're saying Wolverine, with "Sweet Baby" plastered right there in the credits, was actually overrated even at 77?
Boo-Wolverine lol (a jeering pun on "Wolverine")
That's rough. Not acceptable for a game with a budget in the tens of billions of yen.
Background and Key Points
The term “NBP,” which shows up constantly in the thread, is internet slang — a sarcastic coinage implying that Nintendo titles tend to get review scores higher than their content deserves. It’s not an official scoring standard or any real system. The comparison title, “Marvel’s Wolverine,” is a PS5 exclusive with a Metacritic score of 77. Online discussion of game reviews often carries persistent suspicion toward developers’ conduct and reviewers’ standards, rather than focusing on the games themselves, and unverified rumors tend to take on a life of their own in these spaces. This thread, too, is a back-and-forth of hope and anxiety ahead of any official score announcement, and the actual reception after launch may well turn out differently from what’s being predicted here.
*This article is excerpted and summarized from the 5ch (Hardware/Industry, aka “Geha”) thread “[Good News] “FE Bansenkou” Gets a Metascore of 90 LOLOLOL.”
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