I'm twenty-four-years-old. Granted, I'm neither the oldest gamer nor the youngest, I've been around since the NES days. In that time, I've never once played a game that had been trashed in the reviews and found myself in disagreement, with the sole exception of Xenogears (Gamepro gave it a 1.5/5, if I recall correctly)

Now as I sit down and sink tons of hours into Fallen Enchantress, I reflect on the time I discovered the first game, Elemental. I've liked 4X games for some time now, but I've never really found that "perfect" blend of everything, so it was with much dismay when I bought Elemental on faith, looked up the reviews, and saw I'd just spent $40 on a game that'd been universal trashed by critics. (I bought the boxed copy in-store). I installed it with literally no expectations. In fact, it took me a week to get around to even playing it because I'd had such a skewed opinion on it, and I think it's safe to assume my reaction when I finally gave it a chance....

This sums it up. 

So here I am thinking back, and to this day, I still can't understand why the game had such low scores. I can't even fathom it, let alone come to a single idea as to why this was the case. I was wondering if anyone here had any clue as to why. Fallen Enchantress (so far) is every bit as good, if not better, than Elemental, and I'm wondering if this game will also eventually receive tons of bad reviews since it's so similar.

I hope not. This game deserves 9s across the board.