Introduction

The state of gaming journalism is horrible.
It's nearly impossible to find an honest, well-reasoned review of games in this mire of payola and/or angry people yelling into cameras.

Most people would respond to this by yelling into cameras until they drew enough attention to suckle from the bosom of review bribery, but not I! I shall stand against the corruption, and speak the truth!
I do this not for honor, not for glory, but for lack of a camera into which I can yell angrily.


I'm going to state right up front that I expect to review games that contain objectionable content. As I'm focused on the game aspects themselves I won't be touching on such content in my reviews, but I'll still make it clear when and how a game is NSFW, offensive, disgusting, and/or otherwise not family-friendly.


The TL;DR goal here is to review a wide swath of games, with a focus on things that would normally be overlooked or avoided.
I'm not going to be going out of my way to look for terrible games to mock or searching for gems to praise, but instead looking at basically anything that comes my way.
I'll try to go beyond simply saying what a game has done wrong or right, and go into what makes it so. People often forget that reviews aren't just for players, but are tools to help developers improve their craft. Simply saying something is good or bad without going into the reasoning behind that call doesn't provide any useful feedback.


By the same token, I'm going to pay attention to suggestions on how to improve my reviews and my writing. I recognize that I'm as fallible as any human, and as such scores aren't final and reviews are subject to change.

I hope to mostly review reader-submitted suggestions, but when that's not an option I'll review free games, paid games I own, and the occasional demo.