Death Stranding Review Thread - MC: 82 / OC: 83 / GR: 83.17%

[Louie_86]

Angelus said:

Jpcc86 said:

Thats a fine and well position for someone who is just gonna take a game as a player/customer and wont have any sort of deep analysis of it other than his own personal experience/enjoyment with it, but someone who reviews games/movies/music/anyartform professionally - and its basically their job and get paid to do it -  cant have such a limited criteria. When it comes to film for example you take screenplay, visuals, editing, music, acting, directing and find the value (or lack thereof) in each individual part. 

And yet, a product (be it a movie, game, or whatever else) can be either lesser, or greater than the sum of it's parts. So simply assigning a number score based on how many individual parts are of a high production value, doesn't necessarily equate to the overall quality of the product.

I absolutely agree. But my point is something else, what I mean is that 1 notable virtue/defect shouldnt make a "professional" reviewer ignore the rest. To your point tho, whatever added value the product has usually comes from external factors, and that usually makes the difference from it trascending or not. But trascendence is a different topic.