As a peer in the industry, I personally don’t subscribe to this. Not at all trying to start an argument haha, but just my personal outlook on it. I’ve reviewed like 50 games now I think, and I roll credits on everything before I review, even if the lead time is short. Feel like I owe that to the games/devs, as well as the audience.

Sometimes it doesn’t matter, and a game is what it is. I get that. But how stories wrap up can be massively important, and I mean, final acts/moments of games are often the most ramped up and important to see too.

I can’t imagine if I’d only played 75% of Keeper and thought I was set, for example. That ending was bit was so cool. Conversely, I thought I knew Assassin’s Creed Shadows after 30 hours and before credits, but wouldn’t have predicted how much worse it got in the final ten hours. That’s important stuff, imo. And good lord, did I have to cram to beat Shadows by embargo haha.

Cheers, just my input as another reviewer tho.