@Elliptica @demonofustio bro, you only need a single schizo being weirdly persistent, that's literally all you need. As said, we literally saw this on gamefaqs. We had the butt fetishist making similar thread about slightly different girls for over 10 fucking years now

"Would someone really do that?" Yes, yes they would

>Maybe everyone landed on "triumphant return to form for bioware"... but were there seriously no reviews that were like "it's a return to form, if that form was Mass Effect: Andromeda"?

No idea, go check yourself but it seems obvious that EA mandated some big review box to shit out a canned line

>I think it's as simple as these review companies want to make money by getting access to popular or anticipated games early > Companies that publish games also want to get money off good sales > Companies that publish games force companies that review games to adhere to certain style guides and have "toxic positive" reviews

We've known that for years bro, but we've also known that game companies literally pay for advert and advert campaign on game review websites. All of this is nothing new