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If it helps in the slightest, Mortismal Gaming/Mortym (the YouTube reviewer) has a public Steam profile, and one can see that he has already 100% completed Clair Obscur with a 60-hour playtime. So he's presumably just sitting on his review, waiting for the embargo to lift.
Not everyone can go in blind on a game, often because they don't have the money to just buy it straight-up, sight unseen. They want to know - from a source they believe in - that the game in question is worth their time.
I mean, I generally buy what I want regardless, unless it's a painfully clear consensus that the game under-delivered. That doesn't mean I don't appreciate what others have to say about it.
That's what the steam refund period and demos are for. Heck, even watching unedited streams is probably a better indication.
Even the reviewers I broadly like for being mostly unbiased and honest (i.e. Skill Up) rarely perfectly align with what I care about in games, I have to digest their reviews (i.e. they complain about it being too hard but I like that or whine about too much reading but I like that etc).
Guess we know where the devs got the 60 hour mark for 100%, though eh on Mort since he's been caught cheesing his achievements before and is a terrible reviewer in general with anger issues lmao.
But again, if you don't like any particular reviewer and/or do not trust their opinion, then leave it at that and find someone else. Not every game has a demo, not every dollar can be invested into a game you may or may not commit to, and gaming streams can spoil the game for people who want to experience it themselves. There is a space for reviewers to still exist, is my point.
You wouldn't see it in his videos, they're all pre-recorded. It's when he talks in his comments, a few times it was to angrily rage at some random dude, usually with a pretty one-sided take on something irrelevant (he blew up on one guy expressing what I thought was a pretty tame opinion about BG3 to someone else) or throw out a shockingly braindead arguments like arguing the viewcount means he's objectively right or something silly. Then after 'winning' the argument, he deletes all the comments and usually leaves a smug reply in the next video about it or something if the person replies.
To be fair, I've only seen him do it twice, but supposedly it happens a lot, and for me it was a pretty insane mask-off moment. Like, Mort comes off as a pretty laid back dude in his videos, but he went full lunatic in the comments to the point that even the brigade was like whoa dude chill.
After the second time, my opinion of him dropped rock-bottom, and went even lower as his takes on games got dumber and dumber. I still watch his videos for the informationals, i.e. coverage on skills, stuff where his opinions really don't matter and aren't relevant, but I'd never take his opinion on what is a good game seriously anymore.
It sucks because I watched him since he barely had 50k subs and liked how he stayed out of drama and kept a level head, but either he's letting his real self slip now that he's bigger or it changed him.
The dude has been caught with achievements he literally could not have gotten normally (either bugged or no way to earn them implemented yet) a few times and you do know they have timestamps, right? It's hella weird when some of his timestamps conveniently say he unlocked the achievement for like an early boss, a random mid-game quest, and an endgame boss all at the same exact instant. That's a classic and ancient sign of someone using a program like VAM.
You can relock achievements with VAM too so it's easy to fix once you're caught, but he was definitely caught.
You can be a parasocial parasite all you want but don't be proud of not using your brain and keeping a fair distance. I used to like him but I don't like what he's become. All the power to you if you still do.
People still like youtubers who have been convicted pedos and so on too, so whatever, this is nothing, I guess.
Not defending him with this, necessarily, but I've had achievements bug out and pop at weird times, so that doesn't mean much to me.
If there is actual proof that he is cheating or whatever, then...fine, I guess. I'm not putting my head in the sand and ignoring it, I just took him at his word that the allegations were bunk; as I have yet to see any definitive screenshots or the like, I stuck by him.
Edit: Either-way, Mort didn't have anything to do with my initial point about the worthiness of reviews, or even the original question as-to when the reviews will drop. I was using him as anecdotal evidence that they're coming soon, so...yeah. Wasn't looking to go on this tangent.
Seems suspect so i never pre order anymore.
Sadly i no longer trust that reviewer after Dragonage Veilguard.
As for Mort...your opinion of him is irrelevant to my original point of bringing him up, which was "patience, the reviews are almost here."
Although, to go further down the rabbit hole: he liked Dragon Age, so now he's untrustworthy? Some of us enjoyed Veilguard; it's not an impossibility. You can knock his taste, I guess, but unless you're calling him out as being paid for by Bioware or whomever, his trustworthiness shouldn't have gone anywhere because of one review you don't agree with.
It's not really about taking anyones word for it, or at least it shouldn't be. All reviews are subjective. It's about learning a little more about the game. If it's hard or if there's a lot of reading, that's interesting information regardless of the reviewers feelings about it.
It's also a particularly useful ability in life and to being truly educated about anything, to be able to process peoples opinions outside of the lens of your own. Doesn't mean they're right or you agree with them, but there's value in hearing outside perspectives.
And for me, it's just pure entertainment to watch/read about something I'm interested in.
Not trying to be a ♥♥♥♥♥ about it, but generally there is the whole "innocent until proven guilty" thing to consider, at least here in the US (supposedly; we'll see how long it lasts).