Editing So Far, So Good... So What! (section)

== Critical reception ==
{{Music ratings
|rev1 = [[AllMusic]]
|rev1score = {{Rating|2.5|5}}<ref name="Allmusic">{{cite web|last=Huey|first=Steve|title=Megadeth: So Far, So Good... So What!|url=http://www.allmusic.com/album/so-far-so-goodso-what!-mw0000198682|website=[[AllMusic]]|access-date=August 23, 2013}}</ref>
|rev3 = ''[[Los Angeles Times]]''
|rev3Score = {{Rating|2|4}}<ref name="LA review">{{cite news|last=Strauss|first=Duncan|date=January 24, 1988|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1988-01-24-ca-37887-story.html|title=Sonic Booms: ** Megadeth - "So Far, So Good... So What!". Capitol.|newspaper=[[Los Angeles Times]]|access-date=November 10, 2013}}</ref>
|rev4 = ''[[Rock Hard (magazine)|Rock Hard]]''
|rev4Score = 10/10<ref name="Rock Hard">{{cite web|last=Stratmann|first=Holger|title=Megadeth: So Far, So Good... So What!|url=http://www.rockhard.de/megazine/reviewarchiv/review-anzeigen/7800-so-far-so-good-so-what.html|publisher=[[Rock Hard (magazine)|Rock Hard]]|language=de|access-date=August 23, 2013}}</ref>
|rev5 = ''[[Rolling Stone]]''
|rev5score = {{Rating|3|5}}<ref name="RS">{{cite magazine|last=Farber |first=Jim |title=Megadeth: So Far, So Good... So What! |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/artists/megadeth/albums/album/96934/review/5941254/so_far_so_good_so_what |magazine=[[Rolling Stone]] |access-date=August 23, 2013 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071001030103/http://www.rollingstone.com/artists/megadeth/albums/album/96934/review/5941254/so_far_so_good_so_what |archive-date=October 1, 2007 }}</ref>
|rev6 = ''[[The Rolling Stone Album Guide]]''
|rev6Score = {{Rating|3|5}}<ref name="New RS">{{cite book|last1=Brackett|first1=Nathan|last2=Hoard|first2=Christian David|title=[[The New Rolling Stone Album Guide]]|date=2004|publisher=[[Simon & Schuster]]|isbn=0-7432-0169-8|page=[https://archive.org/details/newrollingstonea00brac/page/534 534]}}</ref>
| rev7 = Sputnikmusic
| rev7score = {{Rating|3|5}}<ref>{{cite web |last1=EMERITUS |first1=Mikesn |title=Megadeth - So Far, So Good... So What! |url=https://www.sputnikmusic.com/review/11863/Megadeth-So-Far,-So-Good...-So-What!/ |website=Sputnikmusic |accessdate=March 5, 2023 |date=April 25, 2007}}</ref>
|rev8 = ''[[The Village Voice]]''
|rev8score = B−<ref name="Christgau">{{cite web|last=Christgau|first=Robert|title=Consumer Guide Reviews|url=https://www.robertchristgau.com/xg/cg/cgv588-88.php|work=[[The Village Voice]]|access-date=August 23, 2013}}</ref>
}}

The album received positive feedback from music critics at the time of its release. In a contemporary review, Holger Stratmann from ''Rock Hard'' hailed the album as "the new masterpiece of Megadeth" and asserted that the band had created a great follow-up to their highly acclaimed ''[[Peace Sells... but Who's Buying?]]''<ref name="Rock Hard"/> Jim Farber of ''[[Rolling Stone]]'' also gave the album a favorable review, saying it propelled the group "right at the top of the thrash-rock heap". He concluded his review by saying, "amid today's narcoleptic pop scene, albums like ''So Far, So Good ... So What!'' offer a disruptive noise that's welcome indeed".<ref name="RS"/> Writing for ''[[Spin (magazine)|Spin]]'', J. D. Considine felt that the record showed a "genuine maturity" for the band.<ref name="Spin 2">{{cite journal|last=Considine|first=J.D.|title=Megadeth - So Far, So Good... So What!|journal=[[Spin (magazine)|Spin]]|date=March 1988|pages=31|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=kSEbtY6IkTgC&q=So+Far%2C+So+Good...+So+What%21+megadeth&pg=PA31|access-date=November 6, 2013}}</ref> In ''[[The Village Voice]]'', [[Robert Christgau]] reacted toward the album with tepid positivity,  and wrote that Megadeth garnered "its modest portions of profit and respect" with their latest studio release. He praised "[[Anarchy in the U.K.#Megadeth|Anarchy in the U.K.]]", commenting that Mustaine covers the [[Sex Pistols]] "like a champ".<ref name="Christgau"/>

Retrospective reviews, however, tend to be more critical of the album. [[AllMusic]]'s Steve Huey criticized the album for lacking "the conceptual unity and musical bite" of its predecessor. According to him, the album "wants to sound threatening but mostly comes off as forced and somewhat juvenile", citing the cover track as an example.<ref name="Allmusic"/>
Conversely, Adrien Begrand from ''[[MSN Music]]'' opined that the record was "somehow ignored" in the band's discography.<ref name=MSN>{{cite web|last=Begrand|first=Adrien|title=Megadeth, 'So Far, So Good...So What!'|url=http://social.entertainment.msn.com/music/blogs/headbang-blogpost.aspx?post=b21fccba-64ff-469f-8a38-ce7a337295eb|work=[[MSN Music]]|date=January 25, 2013|access-date=November 9, 2013|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131109213000/http://social.entertainment.msn.com/music/blogs/headbang-blogpost.aspx?post=b21fccba-64ff-469f-8a38-ce7a337295eb|archive-date=November 9, 2013}}</ref>