Glad you enjoyed it! I agree that SUSD does things right, and their reviews are some of the most interesting in the hobby.

Personally, I tend to skip the middle parts of most written reviews (where reviewer explains how the game works). After the forewords I’ll often skip to the end to see how they liked the game.

When writing reviews, I’ll usually still follow the exact same route of writing I hate. That is probably because 1) I feel I need to explain the rules (tradition), 2) it’s an easy way to write, 3) reviews are often written after only a handful of plays and are therefore just first impressions.

I hope your article will be a good start for discussion on how to improve the way we write reviews and do board game journalism. Industry is growing and bloggers and journalist need to keep up with this. We have a lot of room the for different styles of writing. I suggest you as a readers of this excellent blog post check out the movement called Slow Journalism if you’re not familiar with it.