Famitsu sucks

[A Black Falcon]

You've never actually read a single issue of EGM, have you? They devote many two, three pages to cheats/strategies, with most of the pages going toward previews and articles. Your ignorance shines through yet again.

I haven't read my two or three issues from '95 and '96 in a while, I admit... but I remember them well enough.

Letters, news, reviews (fair number of pages, but 3 per page with 4 reviewers and ads on half the pages), info pages/previews (I mean the many pages of one or two page short previews of games which I think aren't out, but might be. Not sure about that... its got format details and game info and stuff but not a review. A bunch of pages of that...), strategy guide stuff (one has a insert with special moves for a fighting game), etc... and lots of ads of course. :)

And you are right most of the pages are those previews (of unrealeased games?) and articles.


Of course, PC gaming mags are different... focuses are on feature articles and reviews...

You just don't know what a good review should look like.

I happen to like the three I wrote... :D

It should have started off with a brief introduction to the game and then gone on to explaining the main parts of F-Zero (i.e. graphics, controls, sound, "fun factor", etc.) without just dwelling on a single aspect of it (which Gamespot did). After the reviewer has gone into detail about the gameplay and the intricacies of the game (which Gamespot failed to do), you'd have a final paragraph summarizing how the reviewer felt about the title. That is basically what should have been done.

Yes, it could/should have been better. But it just wasn't totally negligent... yes more detail would be nice but there is enough for a decent amount of info...