Judging by the votes and comments on this article, the majority of people reading game reviews are here to learn about the game, and not the author. There is a place for this article (blog post), and it is not in the game reviews section.

You can write a great personal recommendation for a game without resorting to a title clearly written to piss people off. 

Man, it’d be a shame if in the next paragraph I said something like

You think maybe “the gamers are upset” because this is advertised as a game review, but is actually a clickbait title and amateurish blog post?

Yeah, articles like this have a place on Kotaku, just not as *reviews*. 

There’s a way to post about this game that you personally love without resorting to a ridiculous clickbait title intended to garner reaction.

I appreciate this as a good bit of writing. But with respect:

Sorry to be That Guy, but what has happened to the editing process at Kotaku as of late? Is it G/O cuts? Kinja jank? Both? So many pieces get published lately where you scan it for 30 seconds and you’re like oh wow, this is completely scuffed.

“Weird” modifies “dude,” not “Christian.” This is how adjectives work.

Fuck scott cawthon, fuck his god.

okay, but the FNAF guy is a pretty shitty person who has said some and done shitty things as a result of his religion

I like the concept of the relationship system, but at first blush I feel like the interactions come a bit too often. The snipes over kill-stealing are the worst because like c’mon y’all, we’re all on the same team here. It feels bad to be punished for playing well.

Oof not having permanent progression like the first game turns me off hard.

I definitely prefer this article to Barsanti’s over at AV Club, but as a huge Samus fan I still disagree with this take. What I loved about Dread is that she does show warmth, because she’s shown warmth since she saved the Baby Metroid in 1991. She’s a character who basically has Batman’s origin story (parents…

Pfft. Dread did more for her character thru body language alone than Other M did with its piles of garbage dialogue.

Witcher 2 had an Assassin’s Creed Easter Egg as well.

I mean the original was about cultural colonization and appropriation of myths (even going back to the original short story, though that was more focused on class than race.) 

Like it’s objectively false obviously, and saying it basically amounts to “I hate things that are fresh” so it ends up challenging the reader to criticize the take without resorting to classicism which ends up being harder than it sounds.

In-N-Out fries suck not because they are fresh cut but because they are fried once. Look at any guide to making good fries and every single one requires the fries to be blanched at a lower temperature (to cook the starch properly) and then fried at a higher temperature for crispness. There are one-fry hacks that start…