• Akasazh
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    4 months ago

    Any gaming journalist claiming that after a mere three hours might not be worth his mettle.

    But, no - I’m talking about a gut feeling, I suppose. I’ve been doing this job for a long time. Decades, it pains me to admit. And I think my radar is pretty good. I trust those innards of mine.

    Indeed he’s got the vibes so hard he plagiarized his own review:

    In fact, it’s giving those vibes so thoroughly that eagle-eyed readers might notice that the structure of this preview’s opening - guts, glory, and all - is borrowed wholesale from that 2022 write-up.

    Yet at the end he manages to cast doubt to the gut feeling he trusted a couple of alineas back:

    Could it be an all-timer?

    Yea…

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        4 months ago

        I took the blow so y’all wouldn’t have to.

    • hightrix@lemmy.world
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      4 months ago

      Exactly my thoughts.

      This reads like a paid “review”. Or an extreme naive reviewer that somehow thinks 3 hours is enough to judge a game as the best ever made.