A couple of weeks after the micro-furore which followed its launch, the good ship Eurogamer send me off to evaluate Tale of Tales’ game of short horror and long walks. I start like this…
“There’s an urge to give it one out of ten. Maybe a two, because two sounds more genuine than one. One sounds like foot-stomping petulance. Two sounds considered, as if I really do mean it. I’m not, because I don’t, but it’d serve a couple of good purposes. Firstly, if considered solely as a classical game, The Path is bloody terrible. Secondly, if you’re the sort of person who cares about the review score, it’s almost certainly not for you and I should turn you off as quickly as possible.”
And then set controls for the heart of the sun. Join me!
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“1: Sucks. Don’t play it. Ever.
2: It’s a bad game. You won’t enjoy playing it, unless you’re truly desperate and addicted to the genre.
3: It’s ok… ish. Not worth spending money on, but if you have access to it anyway, and don’t have anything better to do, you probably won’t hate yourself for playing it If you like the genre, you may even enjoy it.
4: Good. You’ll like it
5: Classic. Everyone must play it.”
That is exactly why I prefer /10 to /5. Straight from “not worth spending on” to “good and you’ll like it”? Okay, so a good review should fill in the gaps that might explain why a 4/5 isn’t quite a 5/5, but still.
I’d rather have out-of-10.
Every time I’ve done assessments with a 5-point scale (e.g. evaluating applications for an event), I’ve ended up giving half-points. Five points simply seemed to blunt as soon as I had to compare individual entries. I felt much more comfortable with a 10-point scale, however it’s distributed (1-5 with half-points (yes, I know it’s really 9 points) or 1-10). However, that’s obviously a personal preference, and games can’t be compared as immediately as 100+ applications that you’re all evaluating within a few hours and days of each other.
Rei: Thanks. I actually did it first try, but had the luxury of a couple of weeks to chew over what I wanted to say.
KG
Great review. Made me want to play the game again.
Pink Floooooooyd.
All I can deduce from that review is that I am a Path Person, and must go play it again.
The Path: I loved it; 8/10.