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May 22 2019

Dawn of Man Game Evaluation

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Dawn of Man or Beginning of Man

Everyone interested in creating content must have already heard the same advice. Maybe not with the exact same words, but always repeated by the Content Generation Community.

Whatever you plan on doing set no expectations of success.

Find something original and that you love doing it.

This way, being successful or not, you will keep doing it and having a good time.

If you are having fun, does it matter how many people are watching you?

The feeling of finding THE content you love to produce must be surely incredible. That is what The Partisan Spy felt after finishing his first game evaluation.

Coincidence or not, the first game The Partisan Spy work on is called Dawn of Man. The game simulates the beginning of mankind and all challenges our ancestors had to face. The beginning of a beautiful journey that we lived today.

That was the start of The Partisan Spy content project. A small sand grain when compared to the meaning of Dawn of Man, but for sure a symbolic start for this new journey.

The Evaluation

First of anything is a mix of fear and excitement. Weeks of methodology and design planning exposed to be judge by fearless redditors.

Plan, do it, learn…

Plan again, do it again, learn again…

Plan again and again and again…

This is the pattern of developing and perfecting an evaluation methodology, as is the challenge of Dawn of Man. A simulation game for gamer that love to learn patterns and plan future moves.

If you are into logic and thinking games Dawn of Man can be your next challenge as it also brings different levels of difficulty. But before making your decision, check the evaluation (click on it to see it in more details) and don’t stop at the evaluation if you have questions about the game:

Make comments below and chat with us or The Partisan Spy.

Watch The Partisan Spy gameplays.

Hear the latest Backlog Podcast where we talk to The Partisan Spy about his evaluation methodology and much more!

Coming up next: RAGE 2 evaluation made by The Partisan Spy!

May 18 2019

Dissidia Final Fantasy NT Game Evaluation

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A BIG DECEPTION

Some gamers have a big resistance about oriental games, its not
The Partisan Spy case. Love for Mario Bros and Street Fight franchises back then made him extremely receptive to games coming from the other side of the world. Known by most, Dissidia Final Fantasy NT was developed by Team Ninja, a Japanese game developer.

As big as Final Fantasy franchise is, expectations will always be high. Dissidia Final Fantasy NT carry its name and was a great deception.

Alpha, beta, early access. All these terms allows games to be incomplete. That was not the case of Dissidia Final Fantasy NT. Furthermore, if a game use these terms, gamers should be smart enough to only play it if it is offered free access.

“I believe that if you pay for a game, the game should be 100% ready. I see no one buying a car and after the purchase, being communicated that the tires will come along later.”
The Partisan Spy

Dissidia crashed a lot and it was a general problem for numerous gamers.

Dissidia is a PVP based game that took 10-15min to find matches that last 5 to 7 minutes.

Dissidia led gamer to believe there was a story mode (PVE) on the game and there wasn’t.

The Evaluation

The great thing about this evaluation is that has shown there is limit. The methodology allows stopping to play unplayable games and impacts on the final result. (read here to understand full story).

If you have questions about the game, don’t stop at the evaluation:

Make comments below and chat with us or The Partisan Spy.

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Coming up next: the first evaluation made by The Partisan Spy!

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May 16 2019

The Division 2 Game Evaluation

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A NEW LEGACY BEING BUILD

What a game review! The Division 2 is the attempt to elevate its brand in the gaming community to a “cultural flag”. Some speak and live it as a reality already and there is no reason to deny The Division is on its way to compete with big titles as COD and Borderlands.

It’s a straight forward game to understand. RPG + Open World + Shooting game. If you are into this genre and don’t bother with a bit of grinding, The Division 2 will give you hundreds of hours of fun and a huge gaming community to share experiences.

The Evaluation

As the first big title to run through The Partisan Spy evaluation, it helped the process by setting new standards to the methodology. (read here to understand full story).

The Division 2 was a big test on how many hours of gameplay the evaluation should have. The Partisan Spy played the game for 50 hours to understand how far he should go and still be productive.

It was also a test to the Mood Tracker concept “Lovers & Likers”, which with redditors inputs evolved to a different graph style showing information more accurately. (see on this article how the Mood Tracker changed)

Are you a RPG + Open World + Shooting game lover? Are you searching for a gaming community to be part of? Read the evaluation and maybe you will find the game you are searching for (click on it to see it in detail)!

If you have questions about the game, don’t stop at the evaluation:

Make comments below and chat with us or The Partisan Spy.

Watch The Partisan Spy gameplays.

Coming up next days: other 2 evaluations from The Partisan Spy!

Hear the latest Backlog Podcast where we talk to The Partisan Spy about his evaluation methodology and much more!

May 14 2019

Outward Game Evaluation

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A GAME FOR THE STRONG

Are you the type of gamer that want to sit, chill and play an easygoing game? This game evaluation will show why you should KEEP AWAY from Outward.

This game was developed to kick you out from your comfort zone, to challenge your “gaming benchmark” and to make you learn by failing. Die, die, die and die again…

The pleasure of Outward is at the end of the journey and not at the beginning of the game. You get tired first to have satisfaction after. Hold on, be strong, learn the game and when you master it, the joy will be immeasurable.

The Evaluation

Outward evaluation reveals to gamers all aspects of the game in-depth. As you read, it will give you key information to make a decision on buying or not the game.

For The Partisan Spy this work was a huge step towards building an open evaluation methodology and rethinking the scoring system.

For gamers the concept of “Potential Hours of Fun” was extremely abstract and extrapolate hours as a way to estimate the final result was understood by few. While we still believe in the concept, we decided to safe it to a future with more data to support it.

At the first post of this series you will find the full story of this project and see how the evaluation methodology is progressing (read here to understand full story).

Finally, are you strong enough as player to challenge Outward? Don’t forget to read the evaluation and find out (click on it to see it in detail).

If you have questions about the game, don’t stop at the evaluation:

Watch the gameplay while The Partisan Spy was evaluating Outward.

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Coming up next days: other 3 evaluations from The Partisan Spy!

May 11 2019

WWZ Game Evaluation

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A True Game Review for True Gamers

Game reviews were created to help us make right choices when buying a game. Therefore, credibility for a game review means it’s impartial, just, nonpartisan.

We believe that reviews at the gaming industry became “collectable badges”, a trading coin between developers and content publishers. More “badges” you collected and sticked to the game cover, better will be it’s sales. In other words, today, game review is a marketing tool to the industry.

Think about it… What does the score 8.9/10 tells you? Or 4.5 out of 5 stars? Half a star? Really?

We can do better. Above all, the industry and gaming community deserves better. This feeling and insight, moved The Partisan Spy to develop a game evaluation methodology that helps gamers understand the game in-depth without buying it. Exposing exactly what single scores, stars, 2min Youtube videos, etc… hide from gamers.

What Backlog Exposed is sharing with you in this article is the last published evaluation of his work in progress.

I am developing this methodology together with gamers in Reddit. Every evaluation I work on, it’s also published in gaming subreddits. Redditors comments helps me change and fix the methodology. And trust me on this, redditors are not always kind with my work.
The Partisan Spy

A game review methodology made by gamers to gamers. The biggest thing about this last published evaluation is that the entire methodology became open. This means that gamers can now understand how the game is evaluated and if they don’t agree with the evaluation, they can sum-up their own score.

The Evaluation

The evaluation done for WWZ have set the basis for the future of this methodology. For example:

Information is open and DIY;

Definition of the 6 biggest variables in a game: Price, UI, Story, Social Potential Status, Gameplay Mood and Grind Feeling;

Score system is set apart from traditional game reviews, it’s a meter that scores from negative to positive points;

The evaluation result is a set of 5 advices.

If you are interested in buying WWZ, we invite you to first read this evaluation (click on it to see it in more details). If you have questions about the game, don’t stop at the evaluation:

Listen to our podcast episode 53.

Watch the gameplay while The Partisan Spy was evaluating WWZ.

Make comments below and chat with us or The Partisan Spy.

In addition to this evaluation, next following days we will post for you guys the other 4 evaluations The Partisan Spy work on.