SuperNova said:
Yeah and I actually like Jim, I've discovered cool games through him and is Jimquisition series can be very well reasoned and insightful. That being said his Yooka-Laylee rewiew was gibberish for the most part. His main critism seemed to be that it did what it set out to do, namely being an N64 style collectathon. I've heard the argument made that Playtonic missed out on the opportunity to do, what Yacht Club games did with Shovel Knight and make the game that people THINK they remember instead of staying true to all of the design philosophies (and fallacies) of the original. That's a legit criticsm to make. It's not one that should put the resultig game into DigiHom territory of badness. Yooka-Laylee runs. It isn't unplayable. It isn't detestable. It doesn't crash. It's not a 2/10. Regardless we'll have to wait until after release for his MK8D rewiew because Nintendo doesn't send him rewiew code. |
That's why I find Jim to be very frustrating sometimes. The man's reviews are often superb, as he's clearly quite intelligent and well spoken (or written), but that's why some of his bizarrely negative reviews irk me; he frequently contradicts himself within said bad reviews, offers opinions that run counter to those presented in most of his other reviews, and in general comes across as someone writing a hit piece as opposed to giving the game an honest chance.
They seem to pop up from time to time, and one is forced to wonder if he stubbed his toe moments before sitting down to right the thing. It wouldn't bother me if he wasn't included within metacritic, as I prefer the reviewers in metacritic to establish a consistent pattern of reviewing, whereas he seems to be willing to drop a game to "broken" at a whim.
