Video reviews vs text reviews

[Cat]

Text.

Most video reviews I've seen are awful.

One person in particular takes the cake: he does regular reviews and spams them everywhere, yet they're terrible. He moves his hands around a lot, so there's no focus on the toy, he often struggles with transforming it (seriously, take five minutes before recording and run through it a few times), his English is terrible, his pronunciation (like most vido reviewers) is poor, he mumbles, it's crappy audio anyway so it makes it even harder to decipher, and his hands are disgustingly filthy.

Your hands are featured prominently in the reviews- there's no excuse to have dirty hands. Take a few minutes and wash yourself, clean under your nails, clip them.

Yuck.

[M-bot]

Video vs. Text is moot. I like good reviews, regardless of their format.

A few things that bug me about some reviews in general (even though I'm as guilty as any in some of the text reviews I've done right here on OTCA) are:

1. Rambling. Cut the waffle to a minimum thanks. We don't need a half-hour dissection on what is on the box. We've got eyes. Reviewers don't need to show and tell at great length.

2. Reviewers don't really need to use phrases like "in my opinion" all that often. It's kinda obvious. Having said that, I've been known to drop an IMHO a few times, mostly when the point I'm making may be contentious, just to acknowledge the potential views of others. I guess there's a difference between stating the obvious and trying to be polite.

3. Please, please, oh please don't use the phrase "I'm not going to lie to you,... etc". There's a video reviewer that I've seen who says this ad nauseam. I can't speak for others, but I was kinda counting on you not lying in your review.

4. Run through your review (in the case of text) or rehearse/judiciously edit your review (in the case of video) before you post.

My own style (insofar as I have one) has 4 facets:
1. Pick out the main points.
2. Point out things that are not obvious.
3. Discuss the points that people are likely to be most interested in.
4. Be concise.
5. Try and be interesting!

[Sinnertwin]

I like the look of a toy, i buy it. If I don't, somebody else will. Worked well so far.

[GoktimusPrime]

Yeah, I'm like that with most toys -- but I check reviews on toys that I'm unsure of, like Beast Hunter Voyager Optimus Prime. But I've been collecting TFs long enough that I can pretty much tell by the look of most toys if I wanna get it or not. If it impresses me enough, I'll get it straight away, if not, I'll wait until someone else gets it first and I get their feedback or have a fiddle of someone else's figure first (nothin' like try before you buy).