I, don’t really know what your trying to say here honestly, you, I assume, are saying that this reviewer got the info on the story through Nintendo, which I find kinda weird when that would be kinda pointless to explain the plot to a person who’s job is now to play the game in question, Paper Mario isn’t complicated, a reviewer can figure out the plot
Or... maybe you're assuming they didn't get information from Nintendo about what game they want said reviewer to play? Which makes even less sense than what you're trying to say. Why would someone review a game sent by a company if they don't even have some sort of idea as to what they are getting into? Not to mention if the plot presented there is "invalid" then Nintendo would've obviously corrected the review, considering they are in a partnership.
Do you?, can you definitively prove ether way without just asking the writer themselves?, honestly I’d like to know, I gave my reasoning why I think it’s a part of there opinion and I don’t really see a debunk for that reading, in the end there blurb is nothing but exaggerated, there feelings on the story is that it’s rubbish and that the game knows it is and uses examples of the story to show this, the story summary is even paused to ask why Peach gets kidnapped so many times and questioning her security
"Yeah guys, can we prove anything in fiction without asking the person who made it?" "well when they said this guy was gonna blow up the planet, they could easy mean that they were gonna make a big explosion on the planet"
For the love of god, stop nitpicking. We take things at face value, we don't assume anything unless we have proof. In this case he is literally just explaining the plot of the game, which there's literally nothing in the game itself that contradicts it. The feelings on the story are feelings, they are not the same as the information presented. And that is how a review works. You present factual information and then share your opinion on it. Especially when Nintendo themselves are endorsing it. You can't assume the evidence presented is an opinion, unless you have evidence that it goes against the game.
The Simpler sounding wording does not make an argument inherently more correct, I can make any extremely wrong statement and put it in a simple way, and my argument is not standing on could he’s, these factors that can make these statements are even factors admitted by the magazine itself for clarity, and if no source can make it definitive, it’s a bit up in the air of it’s validity, and if these factors aren’t definitively debunked I feel I have the right to question them
That isn't what I meant at all. It is called Occam's Razor dude. We cannot assume more than what is presented, which you have been doing this whole time. I don't want to hear that you haven't been relying on "could be's" after you just said that every part of that review is not literal just because you don't understand how a review works.
But fine. What's stopping the reviewer from talking about the game's story legitimately? Oh right. Nothing. Just because there are moments within the review that are opinionated, doesn't mean there are informative moments with facts as well. And in your case you have absolutely no evidence leaning towards your point.
and please, it’s Mario, you don’t need to fill your messages with how I’m “you claim all this Shit” or “don’t know how reviews work”, I don’t have any ill will against you and (I hope) I’ve come off as calm
You can't expect people to not be mad when you're flooding the crt with pointless, baseless information. You're wasting people's time by complaining about how Nintendo Power and other sources supported by them aren't legit because "well this could happen or that could happen".
We go off of what we
know
-We know the game refers to world as universe (thanks to weeb's scan above)
-We know that there's nothing that contradicts the idea of it referring to universe
-We know that the review of the game says the universe would be destroyed, and said review is supported by Nintendo themselves
What you are doing is trying to find a flaw in these arguments, by making up "could be's" on how Nintendo's sources could be inaccurate.
It is not about any mistakes, it is about the source itself having ambiguity on how much input they had on any statement in the book, this Magazine itself clarifies a similar problem that not everything is directly linked to Nintendo, therefore not everything ether book says is assumed to be correct without evidence to support the claim
"Not everything in the book is assumed to be correct" Which implies some things CAN be correct. A "could be" scenario. "The book COULD BE incorrect".
in the end there blurb is nothing but exaggerated, there feelings on the story is that it’s rubbish and that the game knows it is and uses examples of the story to show this, the story summary is even paused to ask why Peach gets kidnapped so many times and questioning her security
"The story explanation could be non literal because it questions why Peach gets kidnapped and why her security is low". A could be, because nothing actually proves that the story summary itself is non literal.
So far we have three points that support the idea of 3-A. Your points are all "what ifs". You don't have proof, or evidence. You don't actually know how the Magazines are made. You don't actually know whether or not everything that reviewer said was literal. In our case we can assume that guides/reviews have legitimate information if they are endorsed by Nintendo, so long as nothing is contradicted within the plot. And we have extra evidence on the game itself to back it up.
And you have basically nothing, but "well the writer could've meant this, not every book is automatically accurate". We can't get anything out of these statements because you have nothing to back them up, which just leads into annoying circular arguments that no one wants to debate about.