Review Guide – Titan’s Decree

We review many different things: games, movies, TV shows, wrestling events/DVDs, technology, tea, board games, and so on. These days, mostly just games and movies though. We believe it’s best to have a unified review scale for everything, as that makes everything consistent.

We have settled on a permanent review scale that we feel best gives our reviewers the flexibility to accurately score an item based on their true feelings of the product.

No silly averages where one less-than-important category can artificially inflate a score, and no 100% scale where people are left wondering what exactly the difference is between an 8.8 and an 8.9.

We use a five-star scale, and one that includes zero stars in extreme cases that we hope to never have to use.

NOTE: I switched the terminology and graphics for this on April 25th starting with The Housemaid review. The scale remains the same, but here’s the new terminology and graphics.

UPDATE: On May 3rd I introduced two mascots for the site, Titan (male) and Theia (female). You can see more about them in our About page. You’ll see Titan and his Decree at the ending of gaming reviews, and some others, while Theia will be featured in movie reviews, and some others.

Here’s the terminology, followed by Titan’s Decree graphics and Theia’s Decree graphics.

• 5 Stars – Exalted (Excellent)
• 4 Stars – Commendable (Great)
• 3 Stars – Substantial (Satisfying to Good)
• 2 Stars – Mundane (Forgettable to Decent)
• 1 Star – Flawed (Bad)
• 0 Stars – Condemned (Dreadful)

(OUTDATED / NO LONGER IN USE) Star Ratings Representation for Older Reviews

• 5 Stars – Excellent
• 4 Stars – Great
• 3 Stars – Satisfying to Good
• 2 Stars- Forgettable to Decent
• 1 Star – Bad
• 0 Stars – Dreadful

THIS SCALE APPLIES TO SOME REVIEWS WRITTEN BEFORE APRIL 25, 2026. WE ARE CONVERTING OLD REVIEWS TO THE NEW GRAPHICS AND TERMS, BUT IT IS A SLOW PROCESS.

You’ll notice that both 2 stars and 3 stars have two meanings, and for that, we say to actually read the review. On average, most reviews will probably end up being in middle there, the two-to-three-star range. If we operated on a full five-star scale, one that includes half stars as we once did, then 3 and 1/2 would be “good” while just 3 would be “satisfying.”

We don’t use half stars anymore because outside of those two middle instances, we don’t fill they add much. They serve to complicate, and if we used them then we might as well be on a 10-point scale. We’ve tried many different systems, and ultimately believe that the fewer ratings available the easier the standard is to see.

For all intents and purposes, we should only have five possible stars. Excellent doesn’t mean perfect, and so they aren’t overly rare, but if you see us give zero stars to something then you know that something has gone terribly wrong.

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Other Tidbits Regarding Titanquisitor Reviews:

• We do, on occasion, receive products for review. When we receive an item to review, we will ALWAYS disclose that to you, the readers, so that you’ll know it isn’t something the reviewer spent money on. This disclosure will be posted at the bottom of the review. You can read more on our Ethics Statement.

• Our reviewers write 100% honest reviews. We don’t care about publishers or distributors or anything like that. We care about YOU, our readers. Our job as reviewers is to provide HONEST opinions based on what we thought so that we can better help you decide to make a purchasing decision or not. We’re not interested in advertising products for publishers or scoring products to try and please publishers.

• No Titanquisitor staff member will ever attend what is called a “Review Event” in the gaming industry. If a publisher wants to fly us out to a hotel or someplace to play their game in a controlled environment with other members of the press then that game isn’t worth us reviewing. Simple as that.

• We hope you understand that we have our own review scale (clearly outlined above) and that we don’t care about the review scales of other outlets. If we score something two, then that means we thought it was mostly decent. Decent doesn’t equal good, but it isn’t bad either. To that end, read the reviews before arguing with the reviewer if you think a game, movie, or whatever is scored too high or too low. Reviews are merely OPINIONS. This is all subjective, and it’s okay that we’ll have different opinions from time to time.