T here’s this strange skill you gather, reading videogame reviews – or at least I did, as a kid relying on magazines as my portal to all games beyond the annual Christmas and birthday purchases. You learn to internalise a game’s ruleset, as laid out by the writer, in order to run a kind of dodgy emulation in your head. Nowadays, though, with virtually any game available within minutes of reading about it, these aren’t muscles I need to stretch very often.
