In the genres and tags, the website describes CrossCode as a Shooter. Which, well… I mean, technically you can shoot at enemies, though “shooter” as a genre is a bit of a stretch. But the website goes one further and calls it a First Person Shooter. That’s about as wrong as calling Tetris an Action Platformer.

Then I was confused by the ratings. Wasn’t really clear where they came from. What exactly is the Game Brain Score? Why should I trust it over the User Score? I scrolled down and found the critics reviews. One of them listed the rating as 0%, but then I checked the source and the reviewer gave it a 7/10, meaning Good.

I visited the pages for several other games I played, and found similar issues. Wrong tags, wrong prices, wrong reviews… In one instance (Valkyria Chronicles 4), there are two entries for the same game, with different scores. One was the “PlayStation 4” version and the other was “Nintendo Switch, Xbox Series X|S, PC, PlayStation 5 and others”.

I’m a fan of the concept, but didn’t feel like I could trust the data.