Review - Mansions of Madness
Sometimes backlash is a terrible thing. Don’t get me wrong here: I’m all for reasoned argument. You certainly won’t find me blithely accepting that something is good just because everyone else says so. The kind of backlash I’m talking about, however, is rarely reasoned and certainly not the curtain-walled bastion of choice it claims to be. You see, once in a while a Really Good Thing(tm) is produced. People look at the Really Good Thing(tm) and say, “My goodness. That’s a really good thing.” They might even buy it. They may tell other people about it. They could well go to an internet forum and write about it. Others look at the Really Good Thing(tm). They may agree with the first group of people. Sure enough, there are criticisms. Nothing is perfect, right? But still, when all’s said and done, it’s a Really Good Thing(tm). A generally positive consensus is reached. Heads are nodded in satisfaction.
But as that positivity is snowballing the backlash is waiting. It rears it’s ugly head and stares grumpily at the positivity. The kind of backlash I’m talking about hates positivity. It cannot abide it. With one powerful leap of totally unjustified criticisms and needlessly aggressive arguments, the blacklash lands with clawed feet directly on the snowball of positivity, crushing it out of existence. The backlash, satisfied in it’s mission to reduce every opinion to mediocrity, slinks away with a self-satisfied smirk. Later that night it cries itself to sleep in it’s cave.
Why am I going on at such length about this kind of backlash? Well today I’m going to talk about Mansions of Madness. And Mansions of Madness is a Really Good Thing(tm).
