metacritic_game_critic_reviews
List a Metacritic game's critic reviews. Returns paginated professional/publication reviews for a game: publication, score, quote, author, platform, and source URL. Credential-free public Metacritic data.
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What metacritic_game_critic_reviews does on Crawlora
AI agents call metacritic_game_critic_reviews to retrieve information from Crawlora without modifying anything. It is typically the context-gathering step in research, monitoring, and reporting workflows, before the agent takes action elsewhere.
| Parameter | Type | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
page | integer | — | 1-based page number (default 1) |
slug | string | Yes | Metacritic game slug |
sort | string | — | Sort order |
per_page | integer | — | Results per page (default 20, max 50) |
Parameters from the server's own tool schema.
Why metacritic_game_critic_reviews is rated Low
This tool retrieves and queries publicly available critic review data from Metacritic with no side effects, no data modification, and no execution of arbitrary operations. It is a straightforward data retrieval operation that fits the Read category definition of 'retrieves or queries data; no side effects (search, list, get, fetch)'.
From the tool's definition Tool description explicitly states it 'List[s]' and 'Returns' data (critic reviews) with no modification or deletion capability. Described as accessing 'public Metacritic data' with 'Credential-free' access, indicating read-only retrieval.
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The rule that runs metacritic_game_critic_reviews safely
PolicyLayer is an MCP gateway: it sits between your AI agents and Crawlora, and checks every tool call against a rule you set before the call runs. Nothing changes on the server itself. For metacritic_game_critic_reviews, this is the rule to start with:
metacritic_game_critic_reviews is read-only, so it stays allowed. Everything else on the server is denied unless you say otherwise.
The button opens the PolicyLayer dashboard: create your workspace, connect Crawlora, apply this rule, and every metacritic_game_critic_reviews call is checked against it from then on.
Questions about metacritic_game_critic_reviews
List a Metacritic game's critic reviews. Returns paginated professional/publication reviews for a game: publication, score, quote, author, platform, and source URL. Credential-free public Metacritic data. It is categorised as a Read tool in the Crawlora MCP Server, which means it retrieves data without modifying state.
metacritic_game_critic_reviews accepts 4 parameters: page, slug, sort, per_page. Required: slug. The full parameter table on this page comes from the server's own tool schema.
Register the Crawlora MCP server in PolicyLayer and add a rule for metacritic_game_critic_reviews: allow, deny, rate-limit, or require approval. Point your MCP client at the PolicyLayer proxy URL and the rule is enforced on every call, before it reaches Crawlora. Nothing to install.
metacritic_game_critic_reviews is a Read tool with low risk. Read-only tools are generally safe to allow by default.
Yes. Add a rate_limit block to the metacritic_game_critic_reviews rule in your PolicyLayer policy. For example, setting max: 10 and window: 60 limits the tool to 10 calls per minute. Rate limits are tracked per agent session and reset automatically.
Set action: deny in the PolicyLayer policy for metacritic_game_critic_reviews. The AI agent will receive a policy violation error and cannot call the tool. You can also include a reason field to explain why the tool is blocked.
metacritic_game_critic_reviews is provided by the Crawlora MCP server (crawlora-mcp). PolicyLayer sits as a proxy in front of this server to enforce policies before tool calls reach the server.
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