C'mon, some of the best games i've played this year start out slowly and make you work for the good stuff. Yakuza, Nier, Nioh, BotW and P5 all do this. Sometimes you need to build up the world and characters.
And that doesn't make my early impressions any less valid? If I quit now and reviewed it, that'd be my score. But I wouldn't because I'm clearly engaged enough to see it through.
Making you work for the all of "the good stuff" seems like the antithesis of gaming, at least to me. Making you work for some ain't so bad, as long as it's entertaining up till then.
I will never understand criticizing criticisms. My experience is my experience, as is othe people, some of which happened to reviewed the game.
I don't think it's ever necessary for a review. If the review is "This was so bad / boring I couldn't even bother to finish it" I take that as a perfectly valid opinion.
I couldn't agree more. If I walk out of a movie because it's terrible, but I miss some incredibly satisfying ending that propels the film from bad to good, it doesn't make my initial experience any less terrible, just the overall experience better. If I can't stomach getting through to that point, it's not my fault, it's the fault of the work for not engaging me enough as a player.
Not saying this game does that, I'm just saying it's a perfectly valid criticism against any form of entertainment.