What Exactly Is Jim Sterling Reviewing? Not Much Apparently

[rocketpig]

Torillian said:

rocketpig said:

Everyone loves bad movies, even many reviewers I follow. On the other hand, not a single one of them has ever written a review that awards a trainwreck movie a perfect score. People may say they like them but when they break them down into a review piece, there's no way they ignore the massive flaws in dialogue, story, acting, etc. and give the movie a 10/10 because "they like it".

Loving a trainwreck movie really has little to do with not seeing its flaws. In fact, loving the movie is usally based AROUND seeing its flaws and laughing at them.

So he obviously doesn't take every review he writes seriously.  If he doesn't take them all seriously then why should I trust any random review written by him?  He wrote a overrated review for one game just for giggles, how do you know he's not underrating this one just for giggles as well?

It may have something to do with him breaking down every piece of Final Fantasy (and other games he reviews), stating what he liked or did not like and not including lines like this one from his Deadly Premonition review:

"Deadly Premonition may well be the first game reviewed almost purely for its comedic value"

Really, this is kind of ridiculous. He sits there and insults Deadly Premonition at every turn and then awards it a perfect score. This falls into Captain Obvious territory.