Sometimes you need to know all the things you probably can a couple of recreation before you purchase it. And generally you don’t — a bit bit goes a great distance. That’s the philosophy behind The Escapist’s 3 Minute Reviews, a collection that I’ve come to sit up for for each new YouTube episode. The movies are quick, environment friendly, and entertaining…all of the extra so as a result of they buck the annoying YouTube pattern of spreading all the things out to 10 or twenty minutes.

The Escapist has made a reputation for itself as a extra cerebral and contemplative place for gaming content material, much less centered on the minute-to-minute breaking information than deeper seems to be at tradition, developments, and enterprise. If the identify sounds acquainted, it’s in all probability due to Zero Punctuation, the foul-mouthed animated present that’s been operating weekly episodes for [glance at the calendar, holy crap] fifteen years now. 

3 Minute Reviews give that very same bite-sized look at a brand new recreation, however sans Yahtzee Croshaw’s abrasive acerbity (I’m a fan, however not everyone seems to be!) and with a extra holistic method. The reviewers are likely to narrate their very own works, making them private and opinionated as all evaluations needs to be. They give simply sufficient particulars on a recreation’s construction and story to sink your tooth into. 

Perhaps the perfect a part of the collection is that it avoids protecting big, AAA video games, and offers some much-needed consideration to video games which might be smaller, shorter, or simply from lesser-known builders. Often I’ll click on on a brand new entry by no means having heard of the sport earlier than, despite the fact that I maintain a reasonably shut eye on the trade. It makes the playlist an informative and broad assortment of opinions on video games that you just won’t be uncovered to in any other case. 

In the spirit of 3 Minute Reviews, I’ll maintain my advice transient. Check out the collection — practically 500 episodes robust now! — if you need concise, informative takes on indies and oddities, which you can end earlier than your Hot Pocket is completed within the microwave.