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Dikitain posted...

I would call everything you mentioned a synopsis, not a review.

Reviews should tell me if something is good or bad, and why.

A synopsis allows you to decide for yourself whether or not something is good or bad.

A review is just someone else describing what they think is good or bad - which may mean absolutely nothing if you don't agree with or like/dislike the same things the reviewer does. And which may mean even less if their own subjectivity means they're ignoring the negatives in favor of the positives because they like the game and are trying to sell it to you, or if they're ignoring the positives and are focusing on the negatives because they hate the game and are trying to torpedo it.

It's one of the reasons why I don't like numerical review scores. That raw data is meaningless unless you know the logic that reviewer used to come to that number, yet all too often reviewers who give scores get lazy justifying them (or the numbers get passed around and compared and the original context gets lost).

A few paragraphs describing various aspects of the game in an objective fashion and allowing you to decide how you feel about it based on your personal preferences is much better than just hearing some asshole say "greatest game evar 12/10!"