Jim Sterling changes his Rating on Hellblade

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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.

So you rather the person not review what they personally don't like. Wouldn't that inflate the overall score. If the people who like the product, do the reviews  only. What about the people who *want* to hear his opinion. He's banned from giving that opinion? I don't care about Captain America or Thor. That doesn't mean I can't review their comics or movies. And know they are decent films/comics in their own right. They are just characters I don't have interest in. It doesn't mean I mark them as shit.