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Author: randxian
Posted: August 02, 2009 (01:59 PM)
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Likes

- Using specific experiences playing to game to highlight what's fundamentally flawed. Passing a checkpoint while falling from a ledge would really suck.

- Nice use of humor. Nearly chuckled at how she shakes like a meth addict line.

- Didn't realize she keeps a journal during her adventures. Having not played the game, this is nice to know.

- Like how you don't spend gobs of time on the plot and just get right to how the game handles.

Dislikes

- Don't really care for the intro. Reading the intro seems to be building toward a positive review, then you suddenly pull a 180. Personally, I don't care for that sort of thing.

- Most of the time, you speak as if you are directing Lara, then there is one line about halfway through where you say "Confidently I ran and jumped", which seems a bit awkward here.

- "...stubbornly refusing to show you anything except Lara's rear assets the majority" You could take out either "rear" or "assets" and this would still work.


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Author: zippdementia
Posted: August 02, 2009 (11:49 PM)
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All good point, Randxian. I'm not sure I agree about the last one, though I see where you're coming from, but the first two are really observant. I actually have some issues with the intro myself, for the same reasons you mentioned, and I KNEW I left a stray personal pronoun around somewhere. Thanks for finding it.


Note to gamers: when someone shoots you in the face, they aren't "gay." They are "psychopathic."

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Author: randxian
Posted: August 03, 2009 (05:59 AM)
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To be perfectly honest, I don't think the last "dislike" is that big of a deal. I only mentioned that because everyone kept critiquing my reviews in a similar fashion, telling me to chop unecessary words and make the writing as tight as possible.


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