I'm not defending Cyberpunk 2077 and I honestly have no idea if it's good, but the TLOU2 stuff has made me utterly unwilling to trust professional critics about a title whose controversy stems largely from its gender/sexuality themes
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Well, no, and I'm not an editor and never have claimed to be (well, almost never; I think I edited a blog once, but nobody read it so) but it seems to me like if you're going to print reviews by individuals as your piece's official thing and not their thinkpiece it's different
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I'm not sure I'd say hypocrisy, but the names of the reviewers are not the things people see. If I search "IGN review Crusader Kings 3" I will get one specific article, and it *will* be distinctly awkward if, say, it fails to condemn colonialism but their review of 2 did
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I guess. There's certainly, as Ellie points out, a double standard at play, though that's more a cultural issue that ends up reflected in the two pieces. As you say, that in itself isn't hypocrisy, but it is worth interrogating.
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