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What you'll need to fill in
This script has 7 details to fill in before you read it. Have these to hand — the customizer above updates the script as you type:
- Game Name
- Unexpected Emotion
- Price
- Developer or Prequel
- Specific Improvement
- Common Expectation
- Potential Issue
It also contains 1 stage direction in grey. Those are instructions to you, not lines to say out loud — they mark where to pause, listen, or wait for a response.
That timing assumes about 130 words a minute, which is a normal conversational pace. If you are presenting to a room you will likely go slower; if you are nervous you will go faster. Read it aloud once and time yourself before it matters.
When to use this script
Use this when the video needs a spine. Reviews, first impressions, and patch breakdowns all have a recurring problem: the creator knows the subject well, starts talking, and produces twenty minutes with no structure. A script gives you the shape — a verdict, the evidence for it, and a recommendation — without stripping out your personality.
It matters most for the opening and the verdict. Those are the two things viewers come for, and they are the two most often buried in the middle of an unstructured take.
Making it sound like you
- State your verdict early and then justify it. Withholding the conclusion for twenty minutes loses the audience that came for it.
- Replace generic praise with specifics — the mechanic, the moment, the number.
- Keep your own voice. Gaming and vlog audiences are unusually quick to detect borrowed phrasing.
- Write the structure, improvise the reactions. The unscripted moments are what the format is for.
Reading it out loud
Most of this is recorded to camera or as voiceover over footage, so keep the script near the lens for talking-head sections and read it comfortably for voiceover. For voiceover in particular, read it aloud once before recording so the phrasing matches your speaking rhythm.
More on the setup side: Moving Text for Video Recording, Teleprompter for Webcam, Moving Text for OBS.
Questions about this script
How long does this first impressions / "is it worth it?" script take to read?
The script runs to about 88 words, which is roughly 41 sec at a normal speaking pace of around 130 words a minute. Your own pace will vary, so time one read-through before you rely on the number.
What do I need to prepare before using this script?
There are 7 details to fill in: Game Name, Unexpected Emotion, Price, Developer or Prequel, Specific Improvement, Common Expectation, and a few more. Enter them in the customizer and the script updates as you type, then opens straight in the teleprompter.
Should a game review be scripted?
The structure should be. Knowing your verdict and the three points supporting it before you record is what keeps a review from becoming a twenty-minute ramble. The reactions and asides are better left unscripted.
Does scripting make vlogs feel less genuine?
Not if you script the shape rather than every sentence. Viewers experience structure as watchability. What reads as inauthentic is borrowed phrasing, so rewrite anything that does not sound like you.
