You know what? Gabe actually really liked the new Crow, or as it is being called in higher-end circles, Le Crow Nouveaux. He says it feels like a throwback in the fun way. I'm curious, but not so curious yet that I would prioritize it over any other activity. I wonder if it's the same thing with a hard seven in game reviews - occasionally sevens are, in actuality, sevens. But there's also a handful of cases where the game is a nine for some and a five for others and the mechanism doesn't know what else to do with it. Also, hell is bad! It's not a first-choice destination.

There is also the case, and I'm not saying that necessarily happened here, but occasionally individual pieces of media are marked for calibration. Most reviews are just sorta pressure in the pipe - they have an ambient quality. Material comes down the belt and receives a score. I don't score things, but that's all I do too; I just say my things. I'm not trying to preach this from some high perch.  Occasionally, you must prove that the system is capable of violence and a remake of an iconic, and for a variety of reasons probably impossible to remake film whose unbelievably charismatic lead was martyred on set… Harsh criticism here would be unassailable. Again, this is about a vengeance spirit and his girlfriend and Triple Hell and all this pulpy stuff. I'm not saying that it is good. I'm saying that sometimes it doesn't matter if something is good or bad - some things just become grist, and the signaling happens fast.

I am going to push this image until the cart falls completely apart:

You want to beat retail and get onboard the Clank! Legacy 2 train, and not just because MIke and I will read you the Book of Secrets like a storybook from the Dire Wolf Game Room app! They are playing around with some huge ideas (in a huge box) that your table is going to love.

(CW)TB out.