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I can accept feeling tricked, duped or led down an empty mineshaft in the context of a game that deliberately builds itself on choice: this is what makes Mass Effect 3 feel so perfunctory in its final moments. It's not very often that I feel like the avatar I'm controlling in the game is an extension of myself, and that's almost never the case when that avatar has a name, face, background and characterization I play no part in. Reading Maddy Myers' review now I'm kind of tired of this angle she's taking to explain the thing she's tired of: "Few games had questioned their own body count until that point, but suddenly, in the early 2010s, they were all reacting to the state of in-game stories in the same way: by forcing the player to do things, and then blaming them for doing that thing, even though the player had no other way to proceed." I'll probably get thrown rocks for writing this. I'll probably even read the complete synopsis on Wikipedia before buying it, it don't mind about spoilers. I will play it down the line, maybe a year from now, so I can close the book.
#Final media player review cnet movie#
A movie actor, especially one that plays a villain, doesn't think in the same way as the character they are playing, and that's okay! But in this current climate, I understand that's not what people want.
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Like, we're finally playing games, playing characters that don't have the same skin colour, the same gender, it only makes sense that we play character that don't have the same ideas, that don't have the same morals (without necessarily being a complete psychopath). Sure, Ellie (or any character) may be wrong in what they're doing, but that's okay, it's okay to be wrong, it's okay to step into the shoes of someone who is wrong, and to see how they got there, how they see the world, without going through the usual judeo-christian redemption story or public apology. I have a big problem with people who just reject a game or a film, simply because they don't agree with what the main character does or think. Not that I trust (or should I say, respect) anyone else when it comes to narrative, even the Giant Bomb crew.
I'm not surprised about Vice, Kotaku and Polygon being down on the game their stance has always stroked me as the college moralist hipster that is popular in young American media and that has exasperated me for quite some time. I remember something Patrick said near the end of his tenure at Giant Bomb that became part of his beat at Kotaku - he was making a more conscious effort to play games he'd been told were bad, or remembered were bad, to analyze and attack his or others' reasons for that badness.
I think the interactivity makes it harder for players to play something and constantly think about how much they're not enjoying the experience, but I personally get a weird kick out of it. So then it just matters if you can jump as high as you want or not.
#Final media player review cnet full#
Moments like that are far more rare in video games, partly because it's audience is full of "well, duh, that's what the game is!" blow-hards but also because it's hard to find structural fault in, I dunno, a Mario game.
The Souvenir wound up being exactly what I wanted it to be when I first saw a trailer for it - a movie I thought about for most of the year to some degree, and still think of as a definitive 2019 film, even if it's not making a list that also includes Parasite, Hollywood, Endgame and The Lighthouse, it's a movie I think about and want to discuss with people just as much as those other movies. But with hindsight and further critique, I could see why Joanna Hogg made that decision, even if I didn't fully appreciate its execution. I still had my central problem with the movie - primarily, that almost every time the drama reaches a boiling point, the camera looks away or the script moves on to a new scene. Turned out I did really like a lot of aspects of the movie - its tone, its setting, its truly nostalgic quality that made it feel as if a dream - and knowing what to expect, I was able to settle into its groove a bit more. I expected that movie to be entirely my shit, saw it in theaters, kind of completely hated it, found Richard Brody's review in the New Yorker which said exactly what I was thinking, then read review after review that argued so heavily in its favor that by the time it showed up on dozens of Best Of lists for 2019, I realized it was on Amazon Prime and gave it another shot. Yes, please, let this game get the level of criticism something like, I don't know, The Souvenir got last year.
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