Is there an automated way to pick your crops? Because if you have to manually pluck everything like Harvest Moon then there is no way a game that forces you to do something so fucking tedious over and over deserves 5 stars.
It's not at all tedious or at least isn't for me, I found it oddly satisfying. It's fast and easy and there is so much other stuff to do that in the grand scheme of things the time you spend actually picking crops is minuscule. There are other things I would point out being maybe mildly tedious before I would say picking crops (fishing for example) but those things are rare enough that it doesn't really matter.
If one guy had made The Division (I mean its literally probably impossible) it would be praised beyond all criticism because even with its downfalls (Stardew's controls are not the best, there are key things the game doesn't tell you) the scale of the project vs people/money is absurd. One guy making this "little" game that I can easily dump 80 hours into is impressive and should be a part of the review.
I think we'll have to agree to disagree, as I vehemently disagree with your statement.
If the game is good, it will be praised, if it is garbage it will not be excused because one guy made it. Also you shouldn't slam The Division to pieces because a team of 100's made it. What sort of weird justification is that?
I'm not saying that the single guy making it should not be mentioned, or valued, or respected, or held in high regard - but I'm saying that stating it multiple (3, including the header) times in a review is a little too much, and Dan has leant on that fact too much when there appears to be (and should be) many more things he can praise in the game aside from that. Objectively, subjectively, whatever!
that lets us totally rip it apart for any and all of its downfalls because so many people and so much money went into it.
Wait what??? You really think that? This is why you would not make a good reviewer.
I don't think three mentions of something is overstating it and honestly, I don't see why this is a big issue? It doesn't diminish the review in any way, there is still enough in the review for readers to form their own informed opinion. So with that said I don't actually understand what your argument is. Dan felt it worth mentioning it so he mentioned it. Which doesn't make him into a worse or better reviewer. They are just points he wanted to get across to the reader. Whether you think it's relevant or not, other people might and he sure did so that's all it is from my perspective.
@axersia: I don't think so. He judged the game based on it's own merits. Whether or not him playing those other games would have skewed the review one way or the other is kind of irrelevant to me.
Wait a second, are they going to try to loop this around and say Michonne is Clem's mom?
Just a wild guess but I can see them trying to tie this into the orginal games cannon and judging by the quality of the writing so far in this first episode. It wouldn't really surprise me
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