Reviewers are gamers. We start off that way, we love games, we review games, we grow an audience, rinse and repeat. Every reviewer I know started reviewing games because they loved this hobby as gamers first....but that doesn't mean that we play games the same way as reviewers as we do/did as gamers. Review drift is a thing. A look at how a game played to review is slightly different than a game played to be played. There are no magical solutions here, but it's worth being aware of it.
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0:00:00 - Introduction
0:00:45 - What Is Review Drift?
0:04:00 - Reviewing Is Different Than Playing
0:08:00 - The Perverse Incentive
0:08:52 - Games That Require Multiple Plays
0:11:40 - The Pressures To Play
0:14:00 - Can We Fix This?
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