Even if we agree that review scores are worthless, they wield an incredible power of video games. They still get treated as important, and people still use them as a basis for attacking others. In this essay I explore some ways in which these scores are applied maliciously, and why they suggest the best course of action is to just remove review scores entirely.
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The Basis of Critique
Do you need to finish a game to review it? This is a question that has been asked over and over again by fans and professionals alike. But it’s by stepping back and asking what the whole point of a review actually is that we get to a clearer understanding of the topic.
Abstracting Games 