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If the critic has a strong bias against or in favor of a genre, style, director, actor, or what have you, '''''and''''' he allows that acerbic vitriol or blind admiration fill his review, he's driving a [[Bias Steamroller]]. [[Author Filibuster|The review stops being about the work and becomes about the element that inspires the bias]]; essentially boiling down to "I hate or love A; since work B has A in it, I hate or love work B; therefore you should (not) watch it."
This may be because he [[Pet Peeve Trope|hates a particular trope]] or [[Caustic Critic|just likes hating in general]]. Then again, he may be a fan of the series/franchise/creator who, out of loyalty, never fails to give the most glowing of praise. In any case, the damage to the review is such that it becomes too biased to be useful. (When a reviewer does this, people tend to ignore it, when fans often use it, it becomes a justified use of [[Don't Like, Don't Read]])
In some of the worst cases, the reviewer may fixate on a particular thing they liked or disliked and give the implication that they might have [[Complaining About Shows You Don't Watch|not actually seen the work in question]]. And there are times where they actually haven't seen much of it.
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** Or not to mention, people going in-depth with one bad experience and accentuating that entirely; even if they were blatantly doing something wrong.
* [[Zero Punctuation (Web Animation)|Yahtzee]] is very up front about his bias against JRPGs and the Wii. His ''Wii Sports Resort'' review was clearly made with the "I hate it, everyone knows I'll hate it, let's just go nuts" mentality. He has the same feeling about fighting games - his later reviews of fighting games criticized the genre more than they criticized the games. Oddly, while he also dislike real time strategy games, he expresses that by simply never reviewing them at all.
** Not to mention his hate for "Modern Shooters", constantly bashing [[Insurmountable Waist
** Although in general its arguable if he belongs here, since by being biased against EVERYTHING (other than Silent Hill 2, Saints Row and that Spiderman game), it arguably stops being a bias and is more of an [[Unpleasable Critic]] type thing.
** He also goes the other way sometimes; for one thing, he's a rabid [[Valve]] fanboy (to the extent that his rampant cynicism will allow). ''[[Portal (Video Game)|Portal]]'' got his only completely positive review ''ever'', and his only significant complaint about the Half-Life series is that [[Development Hell|it takes too long for each game to come out]]. He does criticize Valve games a bit, but always gives more of a "friendly joshing" impression rather than the nuclear explosions of vitriol applied to games by pretty much anyone else.
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[[Category:Criticism Tropes]]
[[Category:Bias Steamroller]]
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