Overall, the reviewer is simply claiming the game is soulless. He's done it in an engaging and well-written way, but of course because he didn't give it glowing praise it must, BY DEFAULT, be flawed.
See, that's where I'm taking issue actually. I don't find it engaging at all, and I think it's actually quite poorly written. The genuine point (Yoshi is underused) is smothered by a contrived, inappropriate, clumsy, and inaccurate metaphor (explain to me, please, anybody, how that relates to Chuck Cunningham).
When you need to work that hard to be entertaining, you're missing the point of reviewing.
I don't doubt that he has good points he'd like to make. But that review is just a series of graceless colliding metaphors that obfuscate whatever it is he's trying to say.
I definitely see it as a flawed review. It's also interesting how many of the comments on that article are along the lines of "What the heck are you talking about?" Even the ones that agree with him.
As I said...I genuinely do think "flawed" is a polite way of appraising writing like that.
Ok, we can agree to disagree on that point - however I can assure you that there's plenty of protest based entirely on the game score, and not the content of the review in this case.
Overall, the reviewer is simply claiming the game is soulless. He's done it in an engaging and well-written way, but of course because he didn't give it glowing praise it must, BY DEFAULT, be flawed.
See, that's where I'm taking issue actually. I don't find it engaging at all, and I think it's actually quite poorly written. The genuine point (Yoshi is underused) is smothered by a contrived, inappropriate, clumsy, and inaccurate metaphor (explain to me, please, anybody, how that relates to Chuck Cunningham).
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Overall, the reviewer is simply claiming the game is soulless. He's done it in an engaging and well-written way, but of course because he didn't give it glowing praise it must, BY DEFAULT, be flawed.
See, that's where I'm taking issue actually. I don't find it engaging at all, and I think it's actually quite poorly written. The genuine point (Yoshi is underused) is smothered by a contrived, inappropriate, clumsy, and inaccurate metaphor (explain to me, please, anybody, how that relates to Chuck Cunningham).
When you need to work that hard to be entertaining, you're missing the point of reviewing.
I don't doubt that he has good points he'd like to make. But that review is just a series of graceless colliding metaphors that obfuscate whatever it is he's trying to say.
I definitely see it as a flawed review. It's also interesting how many of the comments on that article are along the lines of "What the heck are you talking about?" Even the ones that agree with him.
As I said...I genuinely do think "flawed" is a polite way of appraising writing like that.
Not to mention he made several points that were simply untrue. This is my problem with reviewers these days: they seem more interested in being funny or using sarcastic and mildly entertaining metaphors than being fair or accurate.
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If you don't like what they are doing stop linking to them. Perhaps thats the entire point of this site? If you give a bad review to a good game people will flood to your site and from that you will get ad revenue. Its quite a sound business model actually. All publicity is good publicity.
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As much as I think this guy is off his meds, it is his opinion. I won't say the review was well written, but if this is how he feels about the game, so be it.
I do hate how they all keep saying "It's so depressing, this could have been great" and "It's too bad, this seemed fun" (or something along those lines) and such when it doesn't even look like they gave the game a chance, though.
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I thought the general consensus on that one was that it wasn't all that great, or at least not as good as it could/should have been.
Hmm... Maybe, but the other two reviews on Metacritic are marginally more positive, and initial user impressions here are good. I was also pointing out I found this review flawed and somewhat "soulless" as well.
After Fonzie attained breakout success and was repurposed to be more sympathetic and closer to Richie, the Chuck character was nearly superfluous, and his scenes were usually brief appearances "on his way to basketball practice." In fact, Chuck was originally a student at Marquette University on a basketball scholarship.[citation needed]
Chuck was written out during the series' second season with no explanation and was rarely referred to again. Scripts from later seasons implied the Cunninghams had two, not three children.
Right, NEG. Chuck Cunningham didn't make periodic, arguably underused appearances throughout the show...he had a strong presence at the start and then was retconned out of existence.
Right, NEG. Chuck Cunningham didn't make periodic, arguably underused appearances throughout the show...he had a strong presence at the start and then was retconned out of existence.
You know, just like Yoshi in NSMBW!!!!!!
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Yes I think we can all agree that the "Chuck Cunningham" metaphor was poorly thought out and pointless.
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Right, NEG. Chuck Cunningham didn't make periodic, arguably underused appearances throughout the show...he had a strong presence at the start and then was retconned out of existence.
You know, just like Yoshi in NSMBW!!!!!!
ahem
I fail at reading the very thing that I'm quoting. "After Fonzie attained breakout success..." Anyway I looked at their ABahB review and their top 15 games of this decade, and I've concluded that they don't have any idea what they're talking about.
There top 15 list was awful. It seemed like they threw together a list of the first 15 good games they could think of. I mean seriously, Braid is in the top 15 of this DECADE! I know it's a good game, but in the last 9 years there have plenty more incredible game. They obviously don't put a lot of thought into their site or are just plain biased.
that top 15 list is an absolute monstrosity. SSX 3 beats out EVERY zelda game? and how did advance wars make it in there, sure its fun but, seriously, in the top ten games from nearly a decade!? no
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