Do they play the games though? Remember that video of that games journalist who couldn't make it through the tutorial level of Cuphead?
It's just there to let you know how the game mechanics work, and you could clearly see this was someone who wasn't familiar with a game controller and had never played Super Mario. He fumbled through and then actually got stuck. Could not get past a simple jump. Tried again and again. Gave up after a couple of minutes of futility.
why would writing a walkthrough for a game not be work
Do they play the games though? Remember that video of that games journalist who couldn't make it through the tutorial level of Cuphead?
It's just there to let you know how the game mechanics work, and you could clearly see this was someone who wasn't familiar with a game controller and had never played Super Mario. He fumbled through and then actually got stuck. Could not get past a simple jump. Tried again and again. Gave up after a couple of minutes of futility.
Yes walkthrough writes play the whole game. And do so in a rush to get everything out before the game launches and the buzz does down
Like people had to solve all the puzzles in God Of War Ragnarok to write the guides
I know that Cuphead video spread far and wide but the Dark Souls series wouldn't be the most highly acclaimed series if reviewers could not finish
The Cuphead guy doesn't play games, he typically reports on the financial side of the industry which is entirely unrelated to reviews etc.