I realize that cynically lying to your customers, as well as less cynically and more fervently lying to yourself, are both popular pastimes; but I’m morbidly impressed that he manages to overlook or deny the fact that his real opponent is the sheer volume of competing games about gruff white guys who aren’t afraid to be a real man’s manly man even if it’s problematic; except better executed than his.
He’d probably have gotten much better reviews if he was actually peddling some sort of beleaguered subcultural artifact: that would have inspired some of the less sympathetic reviewers to just not bother and presumably stirred up at least a small cluster of ardent defenders.
