EDCHUY'S PROFILE

I guess they can't live with the possibility that somebody actually liked your game.

Well, while what both of you say is not impossible, I would say it's improbable. Why? The first guy also posted a review for Generica, while the other did one for Pokemon Hunter. If the things you are suspecting are true, why would they post a review for other games as well? The only possibility I would see here is to really throw us off track. So basically, I'll take what both of you said as hearsay unless there's more conclusive proof.

If you don't think these scores are representative, then perhaps you both need to come up with your own reviews (one of you has written 0 and another one 1 review so far) to balance it out. There's nothing preventing you guys from giving this game what you think is an "appropriate" score. The validity of any reviewer can easily be questioned at any time by anybody.

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No worries about the mistake. My experience was similar to this review (combat had the same flow of attack/heal but instead of having difficulty I breezed through everything), but yes this goes without saying really, people have different standards and tastes. No one is going to experience a game the exact same way which is why it's important for the developer to get feedback from as many people as possible in order to improve their work. This includes positive and negative feedback as long as they are detailed (this applies to both types) and to me both this and FG's review are well thought out and carefully constructed reviews written by people with vastly different tastes and standards.

Thanks for overlooking my moment of madness. I know see your point of view regarding reviews and feedback, which I wonder whether applies to other developers as well. Although, I'll respectfully disagree with your assessment of the review here.

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"Omega Configuration grants the best battery management and Control out of all Celestial Configurations. Omegas can use their innate pyrokinetic abilities on a vehicular scale from a Jackhammer."

Please tell me how when you read this statement you knew exactly what the class description meant despite the fact that these terms are not introduced during the intro. If you're saying that you figured out what the stats meant after you played for a while that's another matter but the problem remains that someone playing for the first time has become stuck in a class they don't understand.

Reviews do not exist for the sole benefit of the developer.

Obviously, from the description, there is no obvious way to figure what effect choosing that configuration will do. That you do afterwards, seeing what skill and passive stat change was produced by choosing it. One thing here to consider is that Max put a save point just before making that choice, so nobody is necessarily stuck on a configuration. Otherwise (if for example you overwrote the save when equipping arms and legs), all it would take is to restart the game and about 5 minutes to get back to the point of making the choice.

Yes, I am aware that the review has two audiences: the developers, him/herself, and other gameplayers, potential or otherwise. That's why the reviewer needs to be thoughtful and balanced to account for both of them.

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Karsuman's review and his post above is not an opinion, it's an attack. Both are as biased as they get. I'm not at all surprised that Legion's so pissed and defends his game and his own person so vehemently.

I saw that "other" review too and agree in DE's assessment of the situation. Unlike Fallen-Griever who was willing to listen to reason and reconsider what he had written, these two are examples of what not to do when writing a review, IMHO. That's why I restrict myself to writing reviews to those I feel merit it. Since this was a short demo, I provided feedback and did the comparison instead. Also, I have read in the forums that some people won't play other people's game because they have issues with the developers. Unfortunately, this was not the case here (we might have been off that way!). I don't believe saying a game has potential is good enough to make up for the mean-spirited nature of what and how it was written.

There is a simple rule golden I hope all of you guys learned in kindergarten or some point in your lives and know how to apply:

"If you do not have anything good to say, do not say anything at all!"

That doesn't mean that I want to restrict what you write, but at least try to be thoughtful about what and how you say it. There's is a difference between constructive and destructive criticism.

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@Karsuman - I've read your so-called review, you had posted it and probably accepted yourself, then you had it removed. Am I supposed to ignore that review and your attitude simply because you removed it from the site? Am I supposed to "unread it" or something? Legion had the opportunity to read it, as did lots of other people. How is it not relevant, even if it's no longer accessible?

I don't know if this was the case (regarding the unposting), but shouldn't be there be a rule (ethical code) against staff (or however is in charge of accepting reviews here) being able to approve their own submitted reviews. The jury or judge than the parties involved.

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@Solitayre: Silviera:

How did Edchuy know what any of that gibberish meant then? He just played the game, he had no prior inside knowledge of it?

I didn't figure to be as famous as I have become here. Unlike what you expect of many of the game players here, just because I had no knowledge of the gibberish, doesn't mean I would be able to figure it out on my own. I am pretty sure as there are many players that play without thinking, who really just care about fighting and beating the boss, etc.

Which brings up the final point I will make: I don't think any of the reviewers for this game (Fallen-Griever included) really got how to play it to advance successfully. Whether it was whether they're crappy players and didn't (or care to) try hard enough, at least I'll give props out to F-G at least for trying to find out what he missed to be able to play it successfully. So I do question their game playing skills. This is my assessment as a hardcore RMN gameplayer. All the other issues I'll leave to you developers to figure out.