I skimmed through it, and it seems pretty good. What do you think of the book “Game Mechanics: Advanced Game Design” by Joris Dormans?
Continue reading → Critic Critique Don’t Diss a Genre You Don’t/Refuse to Understand You’re not a good reviewer unless you show your work. Dunkey frequently has correct conclusions (relative to that crowd at least), but always bad reviews. Same process, different conclusions, both bad reviews. Dunkey praises/criticizes the things this crowd wants praised/criticized, so he gets treated like a good reviewer, even though he does the exact same thing as IGN. They hate them because they’re hearing the “wrong” things get praised/criticized. The crowd that hates modern game reviews don’t hate them because they have a discerning eye. He’s part of the group that hates corporate reviews because they’re fake, not because they lack depth/insight, but he acts like being fake and lacking insight are the same thing (because he can’t tell the difference), so when he does an “honest” review, he thinks it’s automatically deep/insightful, because he has no idea what that actually means. My biggest criticism of Dunkey is that he’s not a good critic, but he acts like he is, even though he does nothing fundamentally different from anyone at IGN. Hopefully this is better than any of my old stuff.
I know I said I wouldn’t do any more critic critique, but here you go. He picked Dunkey’s Mario Sunshine review, from this year.
I asked him to pick out the video he thinks is Dunkey’s best review and I’d go over it. A friend on twitter was confused when I said Dunkey wasn’t a good reviewer recently.