Re: parasite in city
Hounds have at least two animations for almost every single enemy. Some more, one less. I find the animations for space escape to be rather...tacky and childish, furry or not. How her tail turns into a heart and the strange yipping noises. If you don't like the look or sounds of a character, of course they should be entered into consideration of a 'review'...of which none of this is, since the games aren't even out yet. You have your opinion and I have mine and we all know opinions are like assholes, we all have them and they smell funny to everybody else.
mitsuko flatout has more diversity m8, theres no preference that can overcome that fact, space escape has richer animations.
as for the sounds and style, again... childish, fury, yipping noises, those are all subjective things, I personally dont like it either, but that has no bearing on the quality of the game itself.
would you degrade borderlands for having cartoon artwork and style too? I dont think any reviewer would, even those that dont enjoy that style.
I strongly disagree, I think it's very important a reviewer points out everything in a game they like or don't like, so the reader of said review can be aware of such things and know if he should avoid it or not. Most people are NOT into furries or chicks with dicks, so mentioning those things in a review lets a lot of people know they shouldn't waste their time. And when it comes to Unforbidden, it's important to mention it is strictly bestiality at the time being, and I believe he may have said he has no intention of any human on human action in the game. Some people may be turned off by that so mentioning it in a review is important.
An example of a bad review, someone who reviews Left 4 Dead 2 and mentions how it's a good shooter with zombies but leaves out the fact the zombies are more like mutants, I mean the bloaters or whatever they are were beyond idiotic. I sadly wasn't aware that it had cartoony zombies and was quite let down after I bought it, but I read the wrong review that didn't mention the cartoony bs. I'm only into Romero's take on zombies, which are just undead humans that are slowly rotting away, don't have super human strength, and can't run or shoot venom from their asses. Dead Island was another game where reviewers left out a few things, well some did. The game started off like a good zombie game, but then it started tossing in super zombies and all of that other crap. However, the real let down in Dead Island was how it had that totally cool, uber gloomy and dramatic trailer, then the game turned out to be rather corny.
you are mixing together, as many do, the need for the reviewer having interest in the game with having a personal preference for the game itself, the former is a requirement to make the best review possible, the latter while not necessarily detrimental, will very often result in some form of irrelevant or even prejudicial bias.
a good example of this is player who absolutely love rpg's and particularly sci-fi rpgs making a review on mass effect games and/vs other games, like fallout for instance.
its typical that people who love mass effect regardless of being "connessouir" of rpgs in general or not, label it as "the best rpg" when all that mass effect games have that really stands out from other "good" games is simply the story and story delivery, while other "best" games like fallout have what mass effect lacks and for some reason most reviewers don't discredit it for it, rich and well designed mechanics.
in short: interest is good, but coloring a review with personal taste = bias, irrelevant to the whole.
and obviously no review is going to cover all aspects of a game, no matter how good and experienced the reviewer is, he will however, if he is good, review the base points of interest, engine-mechanics-graphics/artwork/animation/sound-story/depth and so on
In case of hentai games, not that there are actual hentai game review publishers or even formula, if it was MY review I would put in fetish type information such as the type of hentai in it (such as rape, lolis, hermas, kins etc) and artwork(cartoony, pixelated, sprite/non sprite, animated/non animated etc).
ps: apologize for derailing, I have made multiple guides and reviews for several strategy/rpg games and its not everyday I get non troll/fan-hate-boy comments/conversations over reviews or criticism I post, so I felt like indulging the conversation with constructive posters
