it's a little ironic that What Remains of Edith Finch is decried for being a walking sim when it makes use of its medium impeccably when it comes to telling its story. i would even go so far as to say it conveys a kind of story that can only be told properly at all in the form of a game.
i don't have a lot to say right now because it packs a lot into a <5 hr game and there's plenty of aspects of it that are still marinating in my head. only thing i really wanted to make a point of is that it's an 8.5/10 and not an 8 [or 9]. not too bothered about the 5 star scoring system most of the time but some impulse in my brain won't accept this game as anything other than an 8.5. i'd love it if we could just Pitchfork it and start giving 8.7s, 5.3s and shit but alas. then again "actual video game critics" can't even be trusted with a review scale so perhaps it's too much power for an average backlogged user like myself to produce any real meaning from heh.
i don't have a lot to say right now because it packs a lot into a <5 hr game and there's plenty of aspects of it that are still marinating in my head. only thing i really wanted to make a point of is that it's an 8.5/10 and not an 8 [or 9]. not too bothered about the 5 star scoring system most of the time but some impulse in my brain won't accept this game as anything other than an 8.5. i'd love it if we could just Pitchfork it and start giving 8.7s, 5.3s and shit but alas. then again "actual video game critics" can't even be trusted with a review scale so perhaps it's too much power for an average backlogged user like myself to produce any real meaning from heh.