

She also died quite a lot on a few missions, where a guiding hand from one of us might have taught her a weakness to exploit in her enemies, saving her some frustration. Not being a hardcore gamer, she isn’t always able to compare Fable 2 to similar games for example.


Where I might have saved up my gold for better armour and weapons, Faith was more keen on swapping different clothes and dyes and buying new titles for her character.įrom a technical and purely pretentious point of view, there are bound to be a few faults with the review Faith has written. While I might have spent a long time exploring and harvesting experience, for example, Faith was happy to be lead through the game by the glowing trail that always showed her where to go. That’s a more important issue than you might think.Īs a hardcore gamer myself, I watched Faith play a lot of the game and was surprised how much I learnt from it as there were several distinct differences between how we might approach the game. These things aren’t as important to a casual gamer as they are to a hardcore one. If it doesn’t mention online functionality and advanced special moves then it’s probably because Faith didn’t see them or care about them in the game. Thus, the review is written totally from the viewpoint of a casual gamer.
#CASUAL GAMES REVIEW MANUAL#
We asked her to write a review of the game as she saw it, gave her the game and the manual and left her to her own devices. Thus, though we knew the game had things like online co-op and so on, we didn’t give her any instruction in them. thought it should be done then we should try and get a pure review out of her too. We decided that if we were going to do this as Molyneux and Co.
#CASUAL GAMES REVIEW PC#
She’s never been that into consoles or PC games. She’s played a few games in her time – namely The Sims and some Lucasarts adventure games I bullied her into – but she is far from what you’d call a true gamer or a geek. We reckon she’s pretty much the ideal audience for Fable 2 by Molyneux’s definition. Well, we decided to go one step further and for the last week my little sister has been in the office on a work experience placement, much of which she has spent reviewing the game.
