Photo mode is the most underrated form of games criticism
Every screenshot is an argument about what a game is for. It is time we treated virtual photographers as critics rather than decorators.
Pedro Lopes22 July 20266 min readAll
The framing of a screenshot is a claim. It says: this is the part worth looking at.
When a photographer spends four hours waiting for in-game weather to turn, they are performing the same act of attention a critic performs across a twenty-hour playthrough.
“A well-composed screenshot is a review with the word count removed.”
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