Hydrophobia Dev Has a Fear of Brutally Honest Reviews

It’s become a common occurrence for PR to reach out or lash back by way of suffocating an outlet’s coverage opportunities in response to particularly harsh reviews, but Hydrophobia’s creative director, Deborah Jones, has bunny-hopped all that nonsense and is taking the fight to a few specific writers herself.

In response to Edge, one of the world’s most respect gaming outlets, who gave the recently released XBLA title a verbal and Metacritical lashing, Jones stated, “Clearly, they haven’t played the game. We’re extremely frustrated by the review. We’ve got reviews that are absolutely outstanding that say they love the product… If they don’t do the review properly, they shouldn’t do a review at all.”

(What’s ironic is that, although I don’t have it in front of me, I’m pretty sure Edge wrote a lengthy, exclusive preview on Hydrophobia some time ago in which the game was touted as the next big thing in digital downloads.)

Jones’ sentiments that reviewers are “doing it wrong” was echoed in her psychotic attempts to hunt down Destructoid’s Jim Sterling, based on a single Tweet, not even a review.

Ars has the full story.

You can read GameZone’s own Hydrophobia review here. We weren’t impressed either.