Too Human review up, yay
by oni
Finally did a review. Please leave a comment, especially if you have pointers about my writing. I'm trying to learn how to write real good-like, so any help is appreciated. On another note, that is what I've decided I want to do. I know it's corny as hell, but I've spent the last 2-3 years thinking about what is I want to do with my life, after finally passing high school, trying university (di...
Finally did a review. Please leave a comment, especially if you have pointers about my writing. I'm trying to learn how to write real good-like, so any help is appreciated.
On another note, that is what I've decided I want to do. I know it's corny as hell, but I've spent the last 2-3 years thinking about what is I want to do with my life, after finally passing high school, trying university (didn't take, not a bookworm), and now I've decided that games journalism is pretty awesome. I completely share Jeff's passion and view of games reviewing as a more personal thing rather than this sort of uniform review approach, and I think I know enough about games (seriously, crazy amounts of useless game trivia stored up there) to actually be decent at this. And I think editorial "we" is just dumb. A review is one man's opinion, and it shouldn't pretend to be anything else. At the same time, you'll have to find the best way to get across the quality of a game and the type of people it will probably appeal to, which is kind of what I tried to do with my Too Human review. TH is a great example of this, as it's a game that you'll either really like or be more indifferent about, depending on your like or dislike for the genre, and I think the game's reviews demonstrate this perfectly. The metacritic ranges from like 5 to 9. It's not the kind of game that is just broken, but it does have some flaws, but if you really like the genre, you'll probably find it worthwhile. So I found the Too Human review a very good exercise to write, reconciling its flaws with my gravitation towards massive loot-whoring.
Also if you have a games website and you're looking for contributors, hit me up! Experience is good.