Criticisms of Invisible War generally drew negative comparisons to the game's award-winning predecessor.

But I shouldn't make negative comparisons.

And some other reviewers absolutely hated it, usually by way of negative comparisons with Konami titles:

It doesn't detract from the actress's work, but it does invite negative comparisons.

That siphoned off sales from April and created a negative comparison with the retailers' April 1987 performance.

But Steve Forbes eschewed negative comparisons and used a positive idea, the flat tax, to distinguish himself.

The buyers who do see it, meanwhile, will be disposed to make negative comparisons with better endowed dwellings in the same price range.

However, the song was given negative comparisons to Amy Winehouse.

This opened him up to ridicule and prompted negative comparisons to the far more gregarious Mantle.

In large measure, the negative comparisons with 1996 are misleading, since that was a record-breaking year.