Majesco Letter of Sarcasm Made Public

Ex-Gamespotter Alex Navarro, known lately for rogue appearances on the GiantBomb Podcast (Bombcast), today shared with Passive Aggressive Notes an e-mail he received way back in December of 2007 from Majesco regarding his 6.0 review of Cooking Mama 2 on the Nintendo DS and yes, it is just as hilarious as you might imagine. Full of passive-aggressiveness, Majesco's letter allows us all an honest look behind the curtain we otherwise would have missed.

Unfortunately, the letter regrets to mention the job of a reviewer, regardless of the people involved in what they are reviewing. Mr. Navarro's review in no way calls Cooking Mama 2's development team lazy or claims they're bad people, it simply reviews the game they produced. We need not remind the gaming public as a whole the role of a review (of any art/entertainment form) is to inform and criticize. Bits like this show us how dangerous the industry could be if developers/publishers were allowed even more control over public perception of their product; for now, we all have a funny letter to laugh at.