One difference between videogame reviews and music reviews
Videogame critics are a tough audience to please. They appear to have a very defined set of expectations, and should a game fall short of those expectations, they’ll be disappointed, and discuss their disappointment at considerable length.
Music reviewers, however, seem to be more forgiving. Maybe it’s because they love music more than videogame reviewers love videogames – I don’t know. What I do know, however, is what a videogame reviewer would say about Nine Inch Nails’ newest album, The Slip.
The Slip, as reviewed by stereotypical videogame critics
Generally, the reviews would sound disappointed. They’d talk about how it comes in with only ten tracks, which is less than normal for Nine Inch Nails. They’d further rail on it for having three instrumental tracks. Sure, one of them, the album-opening “999,999,” is a half-decent preface, but the action really begins at “1,000,000.”
After you get past the preface, the album has five tracks, which are alright, but right when the album gets to what feels like its half-way point, it throws two instrumental tracks at you, which you can easily just skip, and then you arrive at the album’s conclusion, “Demon Seed.”
Granted, the asking price right for an album that is over when it feels like it’s just getting started, but this is not an album I’d put down $16.99 for.
Or at least, they’d say something like that.