GameSpot called Cabernet incredible after the finale soft-locked.
The Original Review
“Another glitch also soft-locked me during the finale, preventing me from ending a conflict with the incredible persuasive speaking chops Liza had honed over the playthrough.”
The math aint mathing. GameSpot's Cabernet review reads like someone found a dead raccoon in the engine, wrote 'transportation remains emotionally resonant,' and still handed the car a parade float. The reviewer literally reports late-game glitches, broken side quests, and a finale soft-lock, then strolls into the conclusion calling it 'an incredible RPG' like the calculator has been replaced by a scented candle.
Let's isolate the scoring crime scene. If a game prevents you from completing quest endings and blocks your chosen finale resolution, that is not a footnote; that is the waiter dropping your soup into your lap and asking if the garnish had nice themes. Ramée documents the malfunction clearly, which is good criticism for about nine seconds, then the score apparently crawls out of a velvet coffin wearing an 8/10 cape.
The problem is not liking Cabernet. The problem is building a review rubric out of soup and then measuring load-bearing architecture with it. Narrative ambition gets counted in gold bars, technical failure gets counted in Monopoly money, and the final score walks away clean like a spreadsheet goblin laundering decimal points behind a haunted vineyard.
A review can forgive bugs, but it has to show its work. Here, the review says 'the finale soft-locked me' and the score says 'please ignore the body outline.' That is not critical generosity; that is numerical tax evasion with gothic lighting. We give this review a 2/10, because when your conclusion is broken and your score still smiles for the camera, the math aint mathing.
