Wanting to the game to do well/be good and saying that it's going to be Game of the Generation and that anyone who dislikes it must "eat crow," are two entirely different things in my eyes. In the end that's what I'm saying here, that it's harder to talk about things 'with positivity' when the language is so polarised and hyperbolic even in otherwise 'less toxic' places like Era.
It's very hard to say you dislike any aspect of the game without getting branded as a "hater" that must "eat crow," and many who like the game seem to feel the need to heap constant hyperbolic praise onto it in defense of it so, in the end, it's much harder for balanced takes that aren't either "0/10 SHIT GARBAGE" or "10/10 GAME OF THE FOREVER NAUGHTY GODS" to stand out.
Like personally I've seen some real shit flung my way because I've dared to criticise the game's violence (that Naughty Dog themselves have shown). Those reactions won't change if my opinion stays the same after the game comes out and I've played the entire thing; people are still going to see a negative thought and see 'hater,' and even if my opinion does change they're going to see that as a 'personal win' that 'proves' any criticism about the violence is wrong. Hell, in the review thread I'm 100% willing to bet that if a reviewer criticises the game's violence to a considerable degree we're going to see a lot of people, who themselves won't have played the game, start arguing about how that reviewer is 'wrong' for thinking that way.
