This comment is hilarious. You’re getting offended about something that isn’t happening.
Sony’s review embargos always correlate with their confidence in a game – they commission mock reviews so they already roughly know the score. Jeff Ross (director of Days Gone) even said that the mock reviews were quite accurate for DG on a podcast with David Jaffe. Nothing has changed since Days Gone, so what you’re saying isn’t true.
Days Gone
Review Embargo: 25 April 2019
Release Date: 26 April 2019
Death Stranding
Review Embargo: 1 November 2019
Release Date: 8 November 2019
Ghost of Tsushima
Review Embargo: July 14 2020
Release Date: 17 Jul 2020
The Last Of Us Part II
Review Embargo: 12 Jun 2020
Release Date: 19 June 2020
Horizon 2 and R&C: Rift Apart will not have their embargos 1 day before release.
You said it yourself, the main issue in the reviews will likely be the value for the price (€80) which has nothing to do with the rest of your comment. “never mind the fact that they get to play the game for free anyway.” You’d complain in most cases if they didn’t take the price into account and call them elitist.
Also, what reviews actually complained about Deacon being a white male? You’re not actually able to cite any so you’re just lying to yourself. In the IGN preview that people always reference, if you actually read it, he praised Deacon and said he was very invested in the story (the opposite of what you’re saying) https://www.ign.com/article…
“completely ignoring to mention the same issues in all the other games that they subsequently reviewed that also featured a white male protagonist” Yeah, because Deacon being white was never the issue with Days Gone. Just because you say it a 1000 times, doesn’t make it true.