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Dlsite suffers from some sort of 5-star rating saturation where some wack-ass games are even weighed beyond 4. Now if games were to fall beyond that range, you already know it's gonna be bad.
To be fair, you will find that on almost any site with a rating system. I often see games on this site being highly rated or better rated than games that are objectively speaking better in every way.
But because it has one or multiple genres that not many games have, I feel some of them receive a skewed number of higher rated reviews because it includes those genres.
For example on Myanimelist excluding hentai:
* NOTE: I will count unrated shows as negatively reviewed as having no reviews (or too little) basically means they're bad shows *
Gay as genre:
Total: 154 titles with Gay as genre.
105 of those titles have a rating of 6.00 or higher.
49 titles have a rating lower than 6.00 or no rating
68.2% of the titles are positively reviewed
31.8% of the titles are negatively reviewed
Fantasy as genre:
Total: 5334 titles with Fantasy as genre.
2628 of those titles have a rating of 6.00 or higher.
2706 titles have a rating lower than 6.00
49.2% of the titles are positively reviewed
50.8% of the titles are negatively reviewed
As you can see there are
FAR MORE series with
Fantasy as a genre than one's that have
Gay as a genre, on average however those that have Gay as genre are
more positively reviewed or even reviewed at all.
Disclaimer: Not to say the same happens with the Gay genre on this site, it's only to showcase what happens if there's only a few titles with a specific genre in a certain medium(in this case anime), the reviews seem somewhat skewed as it's far more positive than anything else.
This of course also means people have far more titles to compare with in the Fantasy genre and thus are likely to be more critical of shows with that specific genre, that does however not change the fact the ratings are somewhat skewed in favor of Gay genre.