Assessing or examining something means looking at it for faults or potential flaws. Thinking that the characters are too violent is not a flaw with the game if they are designed to be that way. It is only a flaw when based on the reviewers personal morals and not applicible to anybody else playing the game.lacktheknack said:...is not mutually exclusive with a review.Anthadlas Babyeater said:re·viewWeaver said:A reviewer's personal preferences SHOULD affect the score of the game. That's what a review is. Someone's opinion on the game.
Noun
A formal assessment or examination of something.
...does not preclude opinion.
o·pin·ion
Noun
A view or judgment formed about something, not necessarily based on fact or knowledge.
If reviews are not supposed to include writer's thoughts and emotions, then I'm done reading reviews. Thankfully, they are.
I could understand if this was a review on youtube or some other site, with just a guy giving his opinions on the game but on a proffessional review site it is out of place and very amatuer