Jason Schreier wrote a negative review of Xenoblade Chronicles 2 after having only put 50 hours into it. You can see his playtime at the top of his review. The game is at least 80 hours long. If you can't even finish something, before reviewing it, then you shouldn't be reviewing things. Oh, and when reviewing XC2 he went ahead and falsely accused the game of being sexist. In a scene where Pyra clasps her hands out of worry, and the camera pans down to her hands to show it, Jason accuses the game of zooming the camera in on Pyra's ass. Without subtitles it looks that way.

Context, revealed by subtitles, tells another story though.

Jason might be a good journalist, but he is an awful and dishonest reviewer. So no wonder he thinks non-cosmetic MTS can be acceptable in single player games.

It's kotaku, so thats all u really need to know about it. Best not to take them too seriously.

But Xenoblade is sexist.

It is? 

Eh, there are a few parts where the game is blatantly sexist, like when you open the Snow Bunny Blade and she has breasts 1.5 times the size of a basketball. But that's just one part of the game and doesn't really represent it as a whole. Then there's a bunch of genuine comedy moments where the game is being sexist, but self-aware of it for comedic reasons. Like when Poppi is first awoken, and everyone is shocked that she was programmed to be a dirty maid. But comedy shouldn't be taken seriously. This sort of thing happens in Valkyria Chronicles 4 as well, where Raz slaps a character's ass, and then gets punched out by the same character. It is done, not out of genuine sexism, but for comedy, and character building reasons. 

Xenoblade 2 is pretyy sexist. That being said, it's a very good game. Ot has too many issues to be called "great" though...

It's not sexist but sure is deliberately titillating. Try to defend the outfit or the fact that it was shot from the side instead of literally any other angle. Not that there's anything wrong with it. In my opinion she should've only worn a thong the whole game.

He's also pretty wrong in calling AC's micro transactions not predatory. It's not gambling but it doesn't have to be gambling to be predatory. The game is deliberately changed for the worse to entice people to buy in. It preys on people.

OP lost me at the part where you need to finish every game before writing a review about it. I am sorry but no. I keep hearing this argument, but its naive at best and downright stupid at worst. Putting in 50 hours into any game should be more than enough time to form a well educated opinion about a game.

Other than that, the OP is a mess and the title barely has anything to do with the post, so I really have nothing to add to this discussion, except that I do not like microtransactions. So there!

I disagree that a reviewer needs to finish a game if it is exceedingly long. 50 hours of gameplay is a long time. When reviewing an mmorpg you're not expected to put the 1000+ hours in to complete everything. If you don't like a game after 50 hours but are forced to play another 30 to review it, well the review is likely going to be even more negative, because they're being forced to continue playing something when they don't want to.

Also as for the "clasping hands" thing, that's just an excuse, the character is sexualised and the clasping hands could have been shown from the front, no ass shot necessary. I'm not saying that sexualising a character is sexist though.

Sexualized or sexist? Nothing wrong with the first, it just might come off as silly, depending on the setting and situation (both Conan and Red Sonja often come to my mind regarding that), or just not be to someone's liking.

Anyway, it's Kotaku, that falls into Polygon-Kotaku-Eurogamer bin of usual idiocy.