Polygon's review of Shadow Warrior 2 in a nutshell:
HURRRDURRRR game feels like it should have been in 1997 dhausduasdhaiushdaiusdasd. This game is sexist. this game should have been left in 1997....
Heck, I didn't really check the profile of the person who made the Shadow Warrior 2 review until i read in the comments section that a woman made a review. I don't mean to sound anything but this is what i expected. Then again, considering how Polygon is full of reviewers who can't tell the difference between an honest and informative game review to a blog, REGARDLESS IF THEY ARE MALE OR FEMALE Mind you, I'm not surprised. Heck, even if a male reviewer from Polygon did their own Shadow Warrior 2 review, the verdict for the game could have been the same, again regardless of SEX and Sexual Orientation. So it doesn;t matter if this is a reviewer who's a chick that likes flirting and kissing with other chicks or a dude that likes being on the receiving end of the big **ck booty bang bang, as long they are from Polygon and pretty much molded by Polygon, they'll act that way.
But the real big sin for me with the Polygon review of Shadow Warrior 2 was that there was no CLEAR AND THOROUGH explanation on why the reviewer didn't find the gameplay appealing. It was just full of idealogical bullcrap and mixed feelings. There was no explanation on how the game works and what makes or breaks the game. Nothing. It was just an opinion or a tumblr tldr post handcoated to look like a review.
The comments in Polygon's reviews are always amazing to read. Many of the comments are far better reviews than the review made in the site. And then there's going back to the whole Story vs Gameplay bullsh*t that always ends up sneaking its way into things. And then there's the whole "This was okay back in the 90's but not today" idealogies that really just never seem to f**king leave the system.
One thing that i do agree upon though from the other reviews of Shadow Warrior 2, the writing and the jokes are kinda.. well.. yeah. But corny jokes and lame puns aside, that doesn't really stop the game. Yes Shadow Warrior 2 isn't absolutely perfect but it still gets the job done especially with how it differs so much from its predecessor, i mean the Borderlands style of Shoot-n-loot but minus the wannabee Call of duty controls (because everyone's tired of that bullsh*t) but simply the smooth controls from the Shadow Warrior reboot? Hell yeah! After all, you don't go into Shadow Warrior or any game that sells through its gameplay coated with Blood, ultraviolence, and supermurder expecting a story that "enriches the mind, deepens the thinking, widens the worldviews" and other unimportant artistic bullsh*t that makes me want to grab my Super Shotgun and my BFG and tell these millenial techbloggers a 100 meter lecture on what makes video games enjoyable in the first ***king place while I torture them through repeatedly shooting them close to their feet so they could dance while learning from my lecture.
On the other hand, IGN's review of Shadow Warrior 2 was a lot more reasonable. At least the reviewer actually took time to explain some of the good, great, and even poor things that the game has. Some of which are in common with the concesus of SW2's other reviews. Considering how I still can't forgive IGN for some of its own atrocities in the past, I'd definitely put more stock on IGN's reviews than Polygon.