Not sure if this was already posted.

Amidst all the hating, Skyrim and the Elder Scrolls franchise is beloved around the world.

Skyrim Awarded 40/40 By Famitsu
Japanese magazine Famitsu has awarded Skyrim a prestigious perfect score.
Bethesda's RPG is the FIRST Western game ever to receive the honor, and only the seventeenth game
overall to be given a 40/40 in the magazine's 25 years history.

Apparently, Famitsu gives the harshest scores out there via a rigorous scoring process.
The publication asks four reviewers to score each title out of ten, with these then added together to form the overall total.

If the japanese can overlook its glitches and flaws to look at the bigger picture of how good this
game is, and to even give it a perfect score, i think thats really saying something.

http://www.1up.com/news/skyrim-western-made-game-score-perfectly

Official Japanese Trailer for Skyrim
Japan Release Date - 8/12/2011
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M1adLrHvALg&feature=player_embedded

The voice over for the japanese version sounds pretty cool.
Any chance we can have a japanese voiced version with english subtitles?
or even better the option to have BOTH english and japanese voice?

I'm sure someone will making another complaint on how this is a bad thing. If the Japanese like it, it must be bad!! Everything's been dumbed down.. sooner the elder scrolls will be like Final Fantasy.



*For the record, I'm an Asian (half asian anyways), but live in the west. I've always liked both types of RPGs. It's cool to see one get praise in both places.

Yea, im asian too, and i love Skyrim very much.
Anyway haters will hate. True, that the final fantasy has been going downhill ever since FF7. Meh~ why can't they just remake FF7 lol.

For Famitsu to award its first perfect score to a western based game studio in its 25 years of history is quite a treat.

Anyway are there any Japanese fans on the forum that can help provide an english translation of the Skyrim review? It'll be an interesting read for sure.

Not too shabby, but prepare for the glitchy rage!

Bootlickers and buttkissers, all of 'em.