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I've read your reviews too and they're filled to the brim with nonsensical philosophy on what games should and shouldn't be

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Assuming this is actually true, had you posted this earlier, such as when I was specifically soliciting critiques, you'd sound less like you were doing a "I know you are but what am I?"





I could go into WAY more detail about the story part of your review, but it's all a minor point. You don't seem to realize that you're trying to say one thing, but that it can be read another way. You might say Jaster is not angsty, but you also say he has "boundless dreams weighted down by the chores of reality" and that he has a "formulaic and mediocre life". Maybe he really isn't angsty (though I question how "resigned" he is if he jumps at the first chance to escape his life), but you're not painting a cheery picture. Hence, I made a joke about it. And you also compare him to Luke Skywalker, who was a pretty angsty teen at the beginning of Star Wars ("Looks like I'm going nowhere.")

Yours is not the first review I've read. I've read enough that I apply my own accumulated knowledge (from reviews and games) to read them between the lines. So, when I read it's cliche, but it's good, sorry, I read it as, It's cliche but it's bad.

(Besides that KOTOR has the space exploration, and the characters that reveal things to you throughout the game, WITHOUT the cliche framing plot)

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A) hate information. All matter in a review needs to be subjective so that it will have asbolutely no point to anyone possibly interested in playing the game.

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Do you honestly think your review is nothing but grade-A information? No fluff? No wordy sentences or constructions that could convey the same information with less verbiage? Do you think you needed every "very" and "quite" in that review?

I'm honestly interested, not even as a rhetorical question, how you think nauseatingly detailed game mechanics descriptions help someone know what a game is like. Do I really need to know that pressing triangle brings up the menu in this game? If you didn't mention that, and I assumed it was circle, or start, would the picture I have in my head be horribly flawed? If you just said that you received rewards at certain hunter rank milestones, but didn't spell out, "for each 10 of the first 90 ranks you climb, you receive a hefty reward, and another reward for each rank you climb from 10 to 1," would it be horrible if I assumed the reward structure was ever so slightly different? Or, does this reward structure somehow make the game better or worse than a different structure? What if you were rewarded for each rank, 20 to 1, instead of 10 to 1?

Hell, I'll even give you the benefit of the doubt. Maybe you're just trying to make the point that there are a LOT of rewards (19) to earn rather than a just few. And maybe you're trying to make the point that your motivation for gaining those last few levels won't fizzle out, because you're rewarded more for them.

Well, firstly, that gets to the "WHY" I was talking about in my first post -- WHY do these details matter? Why do they make the game better or worse? Mixing in criticism with the details would make the review both easier to read, and more convincing.

But, secondly, even if you could justify the detail in one case, can you really justify it in ALL cases? Can't some examples speak for all?





Look, I'm not the only person who said your review was too long. Would you rather we didn't say anything? I guess it's the same question as what do you do when you see a friend with spinach stuck between his teeth. I'm not trying to be mean, but I would like to see some better reviews.