And now for something completely different. Well, not completely different. We’re still talking games here. More accurately, an online goon by the name of Kritz is. There’s been a lot of talk amongst industry mouthpieces lately on the subject of reviews in light of Metacritic’s woeful fallilbility and the fact that, oh my, what's this? Everyone likes different things! Thankfully, Kritz has come up with a solution.

And that solution is: Stop caring so much about stuff.


As adorably drool-eating as he is, Kritz is making the kind of point a lot of corners have been desperately attempting to articulate over far too many words that are also big words and I like words, words are pretty. Gah, see how he rubs off on you? In any case, this is the deal: Games are fun, and everyone is taking this shiz so seriously right now that the level of critical autopsy applied to the art-form is frequently misplaced. “Are you having fun playing this?” wheedles Kritz. “Yes,” you say. “Five stars, bananas.” That's that. His thoughts on Demon’s Souls are also some of the more succinct and accurate I’ve seen.