I think it's grotesquely overdesigned, frictionless and couldn't stand every English VA speaking with that god awful Vtuber Cadence, but I stopped writing a review both because I don't want to trifle with FF7 zealots and because I hold too much animosity for FF7 and its derivatives.

The ways in which it discusses terminal illness feel gross and exploitative, and they actually make me so angry that even typing up the review gave me a stress migraine.

Utterly amazing game but it's really udnercooked right now. Also, my initial review was just a series of stories and I try to avoid those.

My favourite Civ clone but it gets updated so regularly (as is the nature of Paradox games) that I wanna wait for it to settle before I sing its praises.

Toriyama died while the google doc was still open, and I just didn't have it in me to be keep going.

To me, this is the best game ever made. I also think engaging with it demands a deep level of sincerity, and that you can't even joke about it without revealing something about yourself. While I don't mind personal anecdotes, to review this would require me to break the level of personal life:backloggd separation I maintain.

See above.

They've been teasing a giga update for months now, so I'm holding off.

I thought development had plateau'd and was ready to give it a MASS Builder-style evisceration, but then they announced they were saving all the radical updates for 1.0, so...

I fell in love with this game despite hating BOTW vehemently, and really wanted to exposit just how much I was enthralled for my 200hr playthrough, but... This game hinges so heavily on The First Experience. I know how my brain critiques things, and TOTK is an anomaly for me because I experienced it with Pure Feeling. To review it I'd have to go back, and potentially stab a hole into the entire appeal.

Got halfway through, realized I last played this in 2021. Double realized that my Switch save had about 600hrs and maxed gear, promptly closed the doc because I am NOT doing that grind again on PC, even if it is fun.

I'm an ex-XIV player who played the game for ten full years. Ruminating on it just makes me experience every stage of grief, and that's before getting into how bad the game's politics are. Not reviewing this is self care.

My personal policy is to never write a review that can be tl;dr'd as "I'm not the target audience for this, and that's okay". This was one of them, I realized 2k words in.

I was in the middle of writing a really glowing review of this game, only to replay it for fact checking purposes and discover that it's not actually that good. Dejected, I just let it lie.

MGS1 was the first videogame I ever played. Draw your own conclusions.