Zero Punctuation (http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/zero-punctuation) is a weekly video series where Ben “Yahtzee” Croshaw basically takes a video game that recently came out and rips it apart. He looks high and low for any miniscule flaw a game has and is not afraid to point them all out painfully. And I love him for it. Putting aside the fact that the series is hilarious (in my opinion), I think Yahtzee contributes something important to the gaming community: much-needed criticism of its products. Too often to game journalists and reviewers downplay a game’s faults and emphasize their advantages. Yahtzee goes out of his way to do the opposite, providing a much needed contrast that, if not taken too literally, can help the viewer make a much more informed decision about a game. My only complaint is that he only does one game a week, so a lot of them don’t get his treatment; if more games got bashed the way he does it, I think it would definitely help consumers looking to buy something; and who knows, it might even convince some game devs to actually work on those problems in their sequels.
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