>>720057642
>it was mediocre in damn most game magazines in 1997?
They didn't. Pic related, circled scores are the ones given at the time of release.
>>720058052
No shit, of course a magazine dedicated to a competing platform would shit on a game from their competitor in any way possible. And it wasn't even NP proper, it was a British Nintendo mag that did that. And if you've read Brit gaming mags, most of them were written by low class wankers who scoffed at anything regardless of quality.