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Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past (SNES)
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Rate this review on a scale of 1-10. Please explain your score. Was the review entertaining? Informative? Well-written? All of these things should go toward your critique.
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Not a bad review, but the paragraphs are a bit long, and, sometimes, the writing's quality drops:
"but what the hell, the Zelda series always represents!"
"Nintendo hadn’t yet gayed it up..."
Oookay.
7.5
I'll go 6.
Sometimes it's hard to tell what your review is going to look like before it's published, but those paragraphs are too long. I also don't think you should say things like, "I won't bore you with the now familiar story." You're a reviewer, that's your job. Your audience is people who have not played the game.
10 of 10
Need I say more. It's simply the best game next to Super metroid and the other games that were the best on the system. If you don't have this game at all, You should deffinitly consider buying it.
Just a reminder.Originally Posted by hamburgler
You're rating the REVIEW. Not the game.
I did it by accidently too Alf and Aquaman too. Sorry Joe.
10 of 10
The review was head on about how the game was.
Pros: Passionate writing, good wording.
Cons: Run on sentences. No pictures.
7
7/10 (Good)
Could have been great, but it'll have to suffice merely being good.
The language is certainly aimed at an older audience, which ranges from the clever ("the sweet, siren-like call of Zelda") to the ludicrous ("the fetters of the 8-bit world", "Nintendo hadn't yet gayed it up"). I'm glad the tone never got too pompous.
I was a bit wary of reading this at first, since some of the paragraphs looked uncomfortably long. I'm glad to say that for whatever reason, they flowed better than I expected.
I'll go 5.
Good review but I don't much care for the "Nintendo hadn't yet gayed it up."
There are much better ways to say that, and the shortsightedness that the sentence set forth rather turned me off from reading the rest of the review.
Not bad writing, but for a game like this, I expect MORE. I don't get it. There's no payoff really, no detailed info about the items system, and frankly, I begin to wonder if games really have music at all. No one seems to think they do......
scooterb: "I once shot a man in Catan, just to watch him die."
Whoop. I've been reading so many, I missed the music section. I do honestly think the music in LttP deserves a little more though. and I give it a 7/10. Sheesh. It's late!
scooterb: "I once shot a man in Catan, just to watch him die."
I'll give it a 6. It covers most of the bases, but it just seems too informal. The language is a little unproffesional and the review too personal.
"And remember ladies: if it ain't tight, it ain't right!"
Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past (SNES)
Critique the critique!
Rate this review on a scale of 1-10. Please explain your score. Was the review entertaining? Informative? Well-written? All of these things should go toward your critique.
http://www.digitpress.com/reviews/co...ktothepast.htm
Not a bad review, but the paragraphs are a bit long, and, sometimes, the writing's quality drops:
"but what the hell, the Zelda series always represents!"
"Nintendo hadn’t yet gayed it up..."
Oookay.
7.5
I'll go 6.
Sometimes it's hard to tell what your review is going to look like before it's published, but those paragraphs are too long. I also don't think you should say things like, "I won't bore you with the now familiar story." You're a reviewer, that's your job. Your audience is people who have not played the game.
10 of 10
Need I say more. It's simply the best game next to Super metroid and the other games that were the best on the system. If you don't have this game at all, You should deffinitly consider buying it.
Just a reminder.
You're rating the REVIEW. Not the game.
I did it by accidently too Alf and Aquaman too. Sorry Joe.
10 of 10
The review was head on about how the game was.
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