10 Video Game Review Scores Fans Lost Their MINDS Over
10. IGN Dings Pokémon Omega Ruby & Alpha Sapphire For Having "Too Much Water"
Let's kick things off with perhaps the most meme-worthy review in the history of modern games journalism - IGN's infamous critique of Pokémon Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire.
Reviewer Kallie Plagge awarded the remake a solid 7.8/10 score, praising it as a fun but dated adventure, while lamenting its excess focus on water-type Pokémon and navigating water-based routes.
The video version of the review then added a closing three-word sentence that launched a thousand hate-filled tweets against IGN: "too much water."
The remark quickly went viral, with many mocking IGN and Plagge - the latter of whom presumably had nothing to do with the video's added text - for such a seemingly silly-sounding criticism.
Yet it absolutely made sense to anyone who actually read the written review, but because nuance doesn't exist on social media, of course "too much water" was instantly immortalised as an Internet meme.