Welcome

For a while now, I've been wanting to start up a review site. It occured to me that mainstream gaming press reviews games wrong. Too much focus is placed on the score, and criticism is often brought about if the review doesn't seem to match the score. Further, the reviews themselves seem to focus on the wrong things. They don't try to dissect a game in depth.

My day job is as a programmer at a game development company. Over the past few years, there has been an increasing push to legitimise games as an artform. I have many rants on that subject - the main one in particular being that we shouldn't call them games. This site is not about those rants though.

The purpose of this site is to review games and focus on what I think reviews should focus on. The only way we're going to legitimise games as an artform is if we produce games with artistic merit and review them as such. To that end, you won't find this site constantly updated, nor will you find reviews on release day. My passion is creating games, not reviewing them. I play games and have stuff to say about the games I play though, and thus here we are.

The reviews here will take to a format. Up front is a star rating, the amount of time I consider worth spending on the game, and a quick summary. It literally is an overview, nothing more, and isn't meant to be taken more seriously than that. The star rating isn't also meant to be taken too seriously, and to that end when you see a star rating on this site you can roughly equate it to mean the following:

• 5 stars: Excellent. It ate up my hours without thinking twice.
• 4 stars: Good. Enjoyed it but not the greatest thing ever.
• 3 stars: Alright. Don’t see myself touching it ever again though.
• 2 stars: The wrong side of average. Expect problems that seriously hamper your enjoyment.
• 1 stars: Bad. It really annoyed me but there is worse out there.
• 0 stars: Terrible. Avoid. I’d sell the game if it wasn’t for the fact some other sucker would have to endure it.

Following this overview will be an in-depth discussion of what I got out of the game. I'm not interested in telling you what the graphics are like, or anything else like that. This will purely discuss the experience and the artistic merit of what can be found in its digital world.

I hope you stick around and read my opinions, and come to trust them more than the reviews on mainstream sites.