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Author: randxian
Posted: November 10, 2009 (10:09 PM) Actions: Register for a free user account to post on the forums... |
Fantastic work as usual. I really like how you are up front and specific about the storyline and general mood of the game. That way, the reader can decide if this RPG would be appealing.
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Author: jerec
Posted: November 10, 2009 (10:25 PM) Actions: Register for a free user account to post on the forums... |
I admit, I only clicked on the review because of that picture. Then I read the first bit of the review, but got distracted in my search for more pictures.
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Author: zigfried
Posted: November 10, 2009 (10:41 PM) Actions: Register for a free user account to post on the forums... |
I thought about including more art in the review somewhere, but then I realized that would be really misleading and thought better of it.
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Author: zippdementia
Posted: November 10, 2009 (11:42 PM) Actions: Register for a free user account to post on the forums... |
I second Jerec's opinion, though I also read the big block of different text in the middle and I clicked on the PS2 link.
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Author: radicaldreamer
Posted: November 11, 2009 (12:12 AM) Actions: Register for a free user account to post on the forums... |
The Magna Carta series seems kind of not good. Surprised there was a sequel.
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Author: bloomer
Posted: November 11, 2009 (01:58 AM) Actions: Register for a free user account to post on the forums... |
Hrm, actually I felt this was the least good Zigfried review for a while. This comment is potentially unfair in that I'm reading reviews only sporadically atm, and Zigfried has put out a ton I still haven't read. But I was reading it and had problems to the extent I was motivated to click and type this. I should also say this is a genre i never touch to play.
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Author: zigfried
Posted: November 11, 2009 (09:24 AM) Actions: Register for a free user account to post on the forums... |
It's not my personal favorite review either. I used a different approach for this one, in that it's written towards people who are already planning to buy the game (most of my reviews are written towards people who are interested in the game, but possibly still on the fence). First, consider the following review that I could have written:
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Author: bloomer
Posted: November 11, 2009 (04:59 PM) Actions: Register for a free user account to post on the forums... |
Okay. It is a difficult proposition. Not being in the target audience for your pitch, all I can do is go on the response of slack-jawed yokels like Jerec here :)
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Author: zigfried
Posted: November 11, 2009 (05:51 PM) Actions: Register for a free user account to post on the forums... |
Your comments were actually pretty interesting. Especially the one about my review mentioning a lot of things, but not pursuing them, and many items not seeming important -- it made me ponder what would be worthwhile to discuss in other, more distinctly noteworthy, RPG reviews.
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Author: darketernal
Posted: November 11, 2009 (06:35 PM) Actions: Register for a free user account to post on the forums... |
I refuse to believe this game is average, let alone leaning towards good, and this has nothing to do with the reviewer whose work is commonly extremely well written, but it's the fact that it's Magna Carta that makes me disbelieve any credibility towards it's possible awesomeness.
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Author: randxian
Posted: November 11, 2009 (07:06 PM) Actions: Register for a free user account to post on the forums... |
Also I didn't feel the chunk of gameplay quoting in indented paragraphs added anything. The point it was intended to illustrate didn't need that much illustration, so to me this was mostly filler
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Author: zigfried
Posted: November 11, 2009 (07:23 PM) Actions: Register for a free user account to post on the forums... |
That section isn't actually saying anything about the gameplay -- it's describing a long, unskippable cinematic attack. I'll tweak it to make that clearer. The cinematic attacks are pretty ridiculous, especially in a game that otherwise fails to make any kind of positive graphical impact.
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