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Carolyn Petit Retweeted Carolyn Petit
Carolyn Petit added,
I share this a lot--it's the closest thing I have to a declaration of my philosophy as a critic. It often seems to resonate w/people & since it references Kael, the recent hilarious invocation of her by Shapiro etc seems as good an excuse as any to repost:https://medium.com/@carolynpetit/ruthless-individuality-criticisms-past-and-hopefully-its-future-d1ffbf3bb2c8 …
To answer the open questions in your article - knowing how to recommend and analyze games to an audience in terms they understand and appreciate is part of being a skilled reviewer and writer. It's making it about the audience rather than about you.
I'm not saying that reviews like that are BETTER. I'm saying they're more useful to the audience. It's MUCH more challenging to write your own creative truth and expect an audience to find it and come to it. Typically you have to spend an entire career cultivating that.
And I should be clear, I mean the general, ambiguous "you." Should have said "the writer" to make it feel less personal. I should also proof tweets. Ah well tweet fast die young.
But what assumptions are built into our concept of "the audience" to do that? What are we reinforcing about who games are and aren't for when we do that? I mean, a review that gushes over an MCU movie because it's a generic crowdpleaser isn't useful to ME, yet I am a moviegoer.
Well the review should tell you that, right? Gushing aside, let's say you read the review and it's saying "it's a formulaic film that executes well," you'd know it doesn't have anything fresh for you. The review still served you.
Sure. But personally I'd rather the critic write in a way that acknowledges their own subjectivity rather than seeking to erase it. When I encounter a critic like Kael writing unflinchingly from their own perspective, agree or disagree, I get something out of it that deepens...
...my appreciation for cinema (or games) overall and really stimulates my thinking. That's far more enjoyable and interesting to me than a bland product evaluation with a sheen of (false) objectivity that just tries to tell me if a thing will pleasantly entertain me for X hours.
I think there's room for all of it. But I think we sometimes have a surplus of one kind of approach (to the extent that it's what's expected or even demanded, viewed as "the right way" to review games) and a relative lack of the other approach (which is often derided).
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