Any gaming journalist claiming that after a mere three hours might not be worth his mettle.
But, no - I’m talking about a gut feeling, I suppose. I’ve been doing this job for a long time. Decades, it pains me to admit. And I think my radar is pretty good. I trust those innards of mine.
Indeed he’s got the vibes so hard he plagiarized his own review:
In fact, it’s giving those vibes so thoroughly that eagle-eyed readers might notice that the structure of this preview’s opening - guts, glory, and all - is borrowed wholesale from that 2022 write-up.
Yet at the end he manages to cast doubt to the gut feeling he trusted a couple of alineas back:
Could it be an all-timer?
Yea…
You have been baited for your hard earned clicks!
I took the blow so y’all wouldn’t have to.
Exactly my thoughts.
This reads like a paid “review”. Or an extreme naive reviewer that somehow thinks 3 hours is enough to judge a game as the best ever made.
For anyone else for whom the archive.is link didn’t work: https://www.vg247.com/dragons-dogma-2-may-be-an-all-time-great-preview