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« on: May 13, 2010, 02:12:51 AM »
Some potential improvements:
This feature doesn't make much sense to me in general. As a personal blog, it makes plenty of sense, but the whole concept of "extra life" does not click with me. I get that the games are getting an extra life in the sense that someone is talking about them after they have come out, but it is not as if this is Neal's second time playing the games. So they really aren't getting a second chance, they are getting their first chance with Neal, only late. In the case of Silent Hill SM, it has barely stopped being talked about on most podcasts.
One other thing that doesn't make much sense is the fact that these are just discussions about the very beginning portions of the games. I would much rather hear what Neal thinks about the games after finishing them, and not whether or not he thinks he will play them based off of the first twenty minutes or hour. Perhaps this would make more sense if it chronicled Neal's weekly journey throughout an entire game that he is playing, as opposed to brushing over the surface of something new each week. When I think of giving something a second chance, I first imagine that someone is trying it for the second time, and I also imagine that they aren't just trying it for a small amount of time before rendering a temporary evaluation.
This content just doesn't seem to jive with the rest of what NWR puts out, both in format and writing style. I can tell that Neal is trying to pioneer a new type of article for the site, but to me it feels like Extra Life is trying to be something it isn't.
I do like that Neal is putting in so much time into these features, I just think they have some room for improvement. If the articles are going to agree or dissent with previous reviews and opinions, I would much rather hear that from someone who has played the full game. Otherwise, I really don't see why this isn't labeled a blog.
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