markh

hello! this was my first visit to Aximsite, as I'm not an Axim owner I was always scared to visit. Anyway, I am actually the reviewer from Pdarcade for that game and I'm pleased that I found this article as it allows me to resp[ond to a few conclusions which were jumped to.

firstly, unknown to you was the fact the on PDArcade, for many years we had reviewed palm and pocket pc games in differnt styles with different ratings and catagories for analysis. Pocket PC games used to just have one final grade. The tower Mogul review was the first review on the pocket pc side of things since the changeover and the overal rating was really what I was thinking of rather than the mini things which I was really a bit apathetic about rating as I had always wanted 1 rating at the end.

Anyway, if the text was looked at more than the gradings you would see that the 10/10 was something which was probably expected by the end of the review. Also, further in my defense Tower Mogul is a very good game and has scored 10/10 in other reviews before and after the pdarcade one.

we don't have any .5 ratings at the moment which also makes grading difficult.

with regards to the handango link. I got a bit anoyed by that.

The tower mogul game, I think was also the first handango linked game. And I personally do not benefit from any money made this way. I'm pretty sure it is also something extremely low. I had no more gain in giving the score a high rating than I did a low one.

Again, Tower Mogul is one of the best pocket pc games around and as I read your comments I agreed with a lot of what was said about the part scores and in retrospect disagree with a lot of my part scores anyway as I wasn't really interested in them at the time.

I will mention a lot of what has been said and I am angry with myself for not properly looking over the scores, I may have ignored them due to the fact that they are mixed up in html code and I am normally hunting for typos.

If you look at all of the top 10 recently published pocket pc reviews on pdarcade you will see that they are all acurate overal scores.

This one slipped the net in the rushed changeover.

Thanks for your comments and I will emphasise again that I had no personal monetory gain from the review or the number of handango links.

just adding to the conversation a bit now: the reason a lot of pocket pc review scores are high is due to the fact that review sites genrally request reviews for the games they are interested in and are excited to play they don't request to review crappy text based card games just to give them 0/10

ok hope that settles a few points, I'm really glad I visited Aximsite now and I will no doubt continue, if only to make sure there is no more hate messages to me :)

edit: also PDArcade usually gives the 10/10 score to a genre best and we tend to rate games according to the competition in that Pocket PC genre.