I feel like it was refreshing at first to read reviews that considered games in a larger overall context but the stuff written nowadays comes off as extremely self-serious and pretentious. Like, do you think Roger Ebert would rant on and on about the degradation of women in games like Bayonetta or Onechanbara, or would he just say it's silly and kind of dumb, and move on?
Actually, Roger Ebert did exactly that when reviewing horror films many times. On Sneak Previews him and Gene Siskel even did what basically amounted to an episode very similar to Anita Sarkessian's Tropes vs Women series.
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