I don't like it when titles that contain names of things have all their words' initials capitalized. I find my brain having to work hard to find the last word in the name. Partly because title grammar in general is so convoluted, as well.
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Articles and game titles both use title casing though, so it’s grammatically correct. They could have at least put the game title in quotes to make it clearer, though.
The game is called Castlevania: Belmont’s Curse.
I did get it after a few seconds, thanks.
I know it's "correct", it's just very bad. There really is absolutely no need whatsoever for using capitalization like this. Zero defensible point to it, IMO. All it serves to do is add extra mental overhead. Just like the weird "why use many word when few ok" grammatical structure.
It only sounds extremely pretentious to me. Especially when sometimes the author doesn't really master the language in the rest of the article. (Not saying this was the case here though.)
In this case I would flip the first part and "spend" an extra tiny [word] to make it more clear:
Hands-on review [of] Castlevania: Belmont's Curse — what a wonderful night to have a curse
Notice how much easier it is to isolate the name of the game, and the lack of capitalization makes it faster to read. At least in my opinion.
I think the ideal would be if we could italicise titles, but we can't.
I think the ideal would be to stop unnecessary capitalization. 🙂
Why do you want capitalization?
Because "Title Case" has its place. Its job is to make it clear you're refering to a defined subject. There are other ways to break it up, which this article didn't do. Placing the game's title in quotes or something like you suggested like re-arranging so that there's a distinct separation in the article coverage vs its subject would serve the purpose while retaining traditional print typography.
In many cases these problems are only exacerbated by link aggregators like Lemmy or Reddit too, where subheadings get stuffed into the article link as a continuous sentence.
I think title case has been made mostly obsolete online where title distinction can be made in a bazillion other, nicer ways. Especially here, where the title is basically all you see before clicking through. 🤷♂️ My two cents.
Do you have dyslexia, perchance?
No; I am even practicing speed reading at times.
Now I regret not waking up earlier to line up for the demo yesterday even more =/