Review forming in my head...

By Peter Butter · July 16, 2009

With any luck, I'll get it out of there in time to enter it into the TT. The subject is Hotel Dusk, and the verdict is significant disappointment.

Which seems to be perfectly in line with the reviews already up on the site, but it's just something that needs to be said.

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Peter Butter

Starting out as a small time reviewer and FAQ author on GameFAQs, my writing has been even more tilted toward the old school than my gaming. I enjoy games of many eras, but I always found it more compelling to write for something that hasn't been done extensively already, which often ruled out the more modern games I played as I tend to run at least a couple of years behind the facts. My Honestgamers catalogue was initially just copying over much of my old GameFAQs work, and then for a time dual submitting to both sites. But over 2015 I posted my first HG exclusives, with hopefully more to follow.

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Comments 3

WilltheGreat Jul 16, 2009

Negative reviews are always more fun to write, aren't they?

sashanan Blogger Jul 16, 2009

It depends. When a game totally deserves its spanking then yes, it is satisfying to stomp it into the ground.

When a game could have been so much better, had some excellent ingredients but squanders them the way Hotel Dusk did, it's just painful. The old feeling of wanting to love a game but it won't let you.

aschultz Jul 16, 2009

A negative review of should'ves and could'ves and "why didn't they just" can be very tough to write but it can clarify what we want/don't want...

BTW I didn't realize you had a DS. I read your Impossible Mission review and realize that's a game I want to finish too, finally--probably with save states, though.