the only person who should be contacting Samus in this version of the games woud be like... a small fuzzy wizard telling her about the peyote vision he had of The Creature locked away in the heart of the ruins.

could you be the one to stop it, Child of the Chozo?

time traveling back to 1986 and beating Mel Brooks to the punchline

You're both way more worried about the game itself than than the article. I didn't write an article about having to like Bloodlines 2. I wrote an article about a critical approach to play.

Claudia... you left... without saying goodbye... AGAIN

silly series! qui gon has an evil apprentice named Xanatos and they do "Obi Wan falls in love" long before Satine was a thing.

you're like the only person I know who I can talk to about Vampyr!

It can be hard

yet! Sometimes, bringing your bias is crucial. see the EuroGamer Arc Raider's review! Great work there!

but other times, especially in matters of mere gameplay or structure, leaving expectations behind can be a key step to getting important answers about stuff

Thank you for the kind words, Mitch!

I do think player (certainly critics!) have a responsibility to approach art with a certain kind of frankness.

Don't ignore material circumstances but do strive to answer "what is the thing in front of me?" and be careful of wondering "Does it measure up to what I imagined it would be?"

My favorite was "quarantine and chill" over a subway ad for a Netflix film

Yeah, I got like a pseudo-Italian extended family stretched from Connecticut and into Rhode Island. My uncle had a little character actor stretch as like ... bartenders and bikers.

My uncle is in that movie!