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Eternity’s Child Versus Destructoid

By Kieron Gillen on August 4th, 2008.

1/10 is the new 7/10. That means nothing to anyone who hasn't read the games press obsessively forever, but I say it anyway, as it's probably meta. Am I drunk? I MAY WELL BE.

This is a bit of an internet road-gawk. I picked it up from John “Naked War” Pickford over at Rllmuk. In short, blog-combine Destructoid review fresh-on-steam platformer Eternity’s Child. Despite its $5 tag, both its reviewers give it an impressive 1/10 review-o-TWACK!

And then one of its creators turns up in the comments thread, has a go at the review, the reviewers and the people he was working with.
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