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The new Switch 2-exclusive Fire Emblem: Banshi Senkou has become a hot topic on 5ch’s Hardware & Industry (Geha) board after scoring a dismal 1.3 out of 5 — with 0% positive ratings — in the user review section of the strategy site gamewith.jp. Some in the thread pointed to the earlier case of the PS5-exclusive Marvel title Wolverine, which racked up suspiciously high scores, and speculated that “this time it’s manipulation in reverse.” Others focused on complaints about the game itself — its 30fps performance, the odd inclusion of dungeon exploration in an SRPG, and a battle-skip feature — leaving the thread split over whether manipulation was really behind the low score.
User Review
1.3
0%
Source: gamewith.jp / Original article here
What people said
That's been a thing since Fire Emblem Gaiden
Nintendo fans who are used to low specs don't sweat that stuff
Looks like the people who bombarded Wolverine with high scores have turned their sights on this one
Bet it'll go the opposite way from Wolverine — the low scores will mysteriously vanish later lol
Or are they just sure it's going to sell?
They were promised guaranteed victory and a sense of superiority
but then Insomniac's Marvel game turned out like that,
and they've been mocked over just how pathetic it was ever since
Anime-style SRPGs are a genre where you'd think similar games exist, but they don't really
Even when they do, like Unicorn Overlord, they're multiplatform, so they can't be used as a club to beat anyone with
FE is the pioneer of the genre
Their sense of superiority is slipping away
Hence the meltdown
They worked hard spamming 10/10 scores for Wolverine,
and having it all get wiped away might be what's stinging now
Aren't they being way too scared of Fire Emblem…?
You guys really love talking about 30fps
Whoever wins the 30fps blame game comes out on top 😤
Normal people vs. people whose eyes are about to burn out, huh
Seriously
The protagonist doesn't properly join the fight until late in the game, so they need to be decently strong by then
That's the voice of the public right there
That's a textbook example of an echo chamber, lmao
This really smells like an ad campaign
Nobody's even watching a place like this, how dumb
Hey
What are you gonna do?
Guess it really got to him
Sorry, but that's how it is
They're so bad at deflecting and changing the subject that all they do is hand out fresh ammo for people to mock them with…
How many times do they need to be told they'd be better off not pulling clumsy stunts like this?
And on top of that, you can skip it entirely
If you don't skip it, you can minimize damage taken at maximum efficiency, so there's a point to using it
If the level gap is big enough that you take zero damage no matter what, landing the first strike alone secures the win
Sounds like they think saying this makes them the winner
That one got a fair, legitimate evaluation and still ended up like that
Tough luck
Background and Points of Contention
Banshi Senkou is a new Fire Emblem title released for the Switch 2. Because the gamewith.jp user review section referenced in the thread allows anyone to post freely, it has repeatedly been a venue where “review manipulation” — a concentrated burst of low ratings for a specific title shortly after launch — becomes a problem. The thread also brought up Wolverine, a Marvel action game released as a PS5 exclusive, which saw the opposite phenomenon: an unnaturally concentrated wave of high ratings that was later corrected. On the Geha board, opinions were split between those citing that incident to argue “this might be manipulation in the reverse direction” and those who believed the low score was simply genuine. The dispute extends beyond the question of manipulation itself to the game’s actual content — its 30fps performance, dungeon-exploration elements, and battle-skip feature. Readers should keep in mind that gamewith’s user ratings are user-submitted figures that tend to move in step with social media flare-ups and have inherent limits to their reliability, distinct from official review outlets’ scores or actual sales figures — a point of skepticism that came up within the thread itself.
*This article is compiled and summarized from the 5ch (Hardware & Industry / Geha) thread “Switch 2-exclusive Fire Emblem: Banshi Senkou drowning in bad reviews, user rating at a catastrophic 1.3.”
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