OK I figured I would bring this up because if your doing a real review and being objective than there should be almost no 1 star reviews at all. Being a 1 star review is basically saying there is ABSOLUTELY nothing good in the game at all. No game play, no story, no sound, no art, and horrible UI which for any game should be rare. I have been non-biased a few times myself so when I notice this I put my thoughts/review into the thread discussion and try not to post int he review section for this very reason.
A good game review should cover some basic topics generally in any format you want but should cover these topics at the very least. Remember when you give a 1 star review which is 90% of the time is really a lie you are possibly destroying a new and upcoming developer that could as they learn create one of the best games ever. So think twice before writing a 1 star review even bad games should be most of the time a 2 star game.
Good non-biased game review may look something like this. The thing is make sure to cover the basic topics at the very least.
1. Game Play: 3/5 (what is good and bad about it)
2. Story/Plot: N/A (Game is more of a puzzle game so story not applicable)
3. Sound: 2/5 (Only has background music intermittently with some sound effects like doorbell)
4: Art: 3/5 (scenes have animation? How is the art? What did you like or not like about the art?)
5. UI: 3/5 (how is the UI for the game interface? What could be improved?)
So in this scenario we have 4 topics to judge since it is a puzzle game with no story we will not use that topic. So that means we will calculate total points divided by number of topics. 11/4 would put our score around 2.75 so we could decide to round up or down to be either 3 or 2.5. When I see a 1 star review I already know that the review is not a real review as to have a 1 star review the game would have to be a 1 star for every topic.
Now these are not all the topics that could be covered but the minimum but you could include others that you have a peeve about or is really good for example you could have included.
6. Puzzle: 4/5 (the puzzle game is quite unique and very fun to play. The puzzle plays out as a ....)
7. Developer Personality: 1/5 (Developer has issues with any advice and this will ultimately hurt his game as he won't listen to others opinions on difficulty at all)
Now you can do a weight base merit with actual facts and determine the real star review of the game itself. You could even put Developer Personality: 5/5 (he takes advice, listens to opinions and this should help to improve the game immensely. He has great Discord support)
Now if you just want to rant and not provide an objective review and say you think it's one star because of this than just put that into the thread discussion itself a non-objective review should not be put in reviews. Others may like that but they may never know because you just killed the developers only chance by being unfair and biased in the review section that counts making a game that may have excelled into a failure at the very beginning of the game.
A good game review should cover some basic topics generally in any format you want but should cover these topics at the very least. Remember when you give a 1 star review which is 90% of the time is really a lie you are possibly destroying a new and upcoming developer that could as they learn create one of the best games ever. So think twice before writing a 1 star review even bad games should be most of the time a 2 star game.
Good non-biased game review may look something like this. The thing is make sure to cover the basic topics at the very least.
1. Game Play: 3/5 (what is good and bad about it)
2. Story/Plot: N/A (Game is more of a puzzle game so story not applicable)
3. Sound: 2/5 (Only has background music intermittently with some sound effects like doorbell)
4: Art: 3/5 (scenes have animation? How is the art? What did you like or not like about the art?)
5. UI: 3/5 (how is the UI for the game interface? What could be improved?)
So in this scenario we have 4 topics to judge since it is a puzzle game with no story we will not use that topic. So that means we will calculate total points divided by number of topics. 11/4 would put our score around 2.75 so we could decide to round up or down to be either 3 or 2.5. When I see a 1 star review I already know that the review is not a real review as to have a 1 star review the game would have to be a 1 star for every topic.
Now these are not all the topics that could be covered but the minimum but you could include others that you have a peeve about or is really good for example you could have included.
6. Puzzle: 4/5 (the puzzle game is quite unique and very fun to play. The puzzle plays out as a ....)
7. Developer Personality: 1/5 (Developer has issues with any advice and this will ultimately hurt his game as he won't listen to others opinions on difficulty at all)
Now you can do a weight base merit with actual facts and determine the real star review of the game itself. You could even put Developer Personality: 5/5 (he takes advice, listens to opinions and this should help to improve the game immensely. He has great Discord support)
Now if you just want to rant and not provide an objective review and say you think it's one star because of this than just put that into the thread discussion itself a non-objective review should not be put in reviews. Others may like that but they may never know because you just killed the developers only chance by being unfair and biased in the review section that counts making a game that may have excelled into a failure at the very beginning of the game.
