Jim Sterling changes his Rating on Hellblade

[Darashiva]

Xen said:

Darashiva said:

But that's what a review is, a single person's subjective view of a specific game, or at least should be. A review that does not reflect the opinion of its writer seems like a complete waste of time to me.

You are not wrong, but there needs to be an overpowering element of objectivity to a review: otherwise, give a person that only plays FPS a turn-based JRPG, and it might get an unfairly low score, and vice versa... one needs to evaluate objectively, noting their own experiences. While that is not the way JS does it, that IMO is the only fair way.

I've never gotten the feeling that Jim's reviews are unfairly subjective. There's also the fact that since he is essentially an independet critic now, he only reviews the game's he wants to review. So if he has no interest in a particular genre, he most likely won't review game's belonging to it.