I believe that we have a responsibility to always be polite. However, sometimes it’s not what you say but how you say it that counts. Being honest and justifying your opinions is more important than writing a review with the objective of pleasing or displeasing anybody. Telling the truth should be all that matters. I feel that as amateur reviewers we have no commercial interests and don’t need to worry about anything else except the review. In some way I don’t think there should be a compromise. It discusses the motivation and format of reviews, rather than the content. I wrote about reviews in 2006, in a post called Reviewing the Reviews. I have never been one to shy away from giving my opinion, which is below, but I though it might make an interesting topic too. So, in your opinion, what do you consider a good compromise between kicking someone in the balls for their hard work and being a yes man that makes all the reviews pointless? I’ve reviewed plenty of paid for games before, but that never got people throwing insults and bile.”

I haven’t read any of the reviews in question, so my comments are based on the topic rather than any specifics. I received an email from a reader today asking that exact question how tough is too tough? He is writing reviews and has received some negative feedback for those reviews. The Replay Experience Experiment aka TREE.

Loms tough too