LogFAQs > #942076201

Finally, the idea that you need to play the full game for your opinion to count has serious flaws. If you disliked the game after playing through a good bit of it then that's a strike against it already, it should ideally have you hooked the whole way through. Same goes if you don't like a synopsis of the game. Then that's fair. A lot of the time your intuition on such is true. If you need to play through 20+ hours to maybe not think a game was as bad as it sounds, then that's a problem too. That's a lot. And for a game as story heavy and cinematic as this one, watching it all definitely gives you a fair opinion. The idea that you would like the story much more or less if you played instead of watching is absurd to me. Minimal difference at best.

1. Yes you do need to play the full game because there are serious big picture things that happen in the last 15 minutes of the game.
2. Ideally it should have you hooked throughout - you're not wrong on that. Yet if you played only part of the game, your opinion on the whole game still carries less weight. You may have a valid complaint but you still can't talk about the game in full.
3. If you only read a synopsis of the game, you can't have a credible opinion on the game. My brother read the leaks, thought it was going to be shit, played it, and ended up calling it a masterpiece. Synopsis doesn't do anything.
4. Watching it in full gives you an opinion, but not one that matters as much as if you had played it all the way through. The player participating in the action/events is the whole purpose of a video game. It changes things.