About Me
Tarrmu / Chris
About Me
Tarrmu's Reviews is a website that is built around my love for video games. I Tarrmu (Chris) have a passion for everything gaming, and I want to further articulate and expand upon my ideas expressed through my channel, on this website.
The goal of this website is to elaborate and provide more meat to existing videos for those who want more about their favorite games, along with also providing coverage of the latest new games, and Indie gems that you may have missed. There are many ambitions and dreams that I have for both the website and the channel, but most importantly I want to foster and continue to build a community that has been supportive of me and the channel over the years.
Access to reviews, retrospectives, and analysis content will always be free and easily accessible. Any further paid memberships will be primarily a means to support both the channel and the website, and the future endeavors and projects that we're wanting to take in future.
- Access to all Reviews, Analysis, Retrospectives
- The Ability to comment on articles
- The Ability to Participate in Q&A's
- All the benefits of Free Members
- Name will appear in video credits
- Supporter Exclusive Q&A's
- Same benefits as the Tier 1, but for those who want to show extra support
- All the benefits of Previous Tiers
- Name will appear in video credits under Tier 2 section
Everyone has their own tastes. No one is right or wrong to love the games they do. But I believe the point of a reviewer is to be a personality, someone whose taste you recognise. If a reviewer likes similar things to you, their recommendation matters more. It's like having a friend who loves horror films. If they say a movie is good, you listen. Or, if you love JRPGs and have a friend who feels the same, their opinion carries weight. I want you to know what I like and where my gaming interests come from. Knowing my perspective is important when I make recommendations.
We would rather be upfront about where AI sits in this project — and where it does not.
AI tooling assists with the back-end engineering behind this site: database structure and query logic, the data-matching and import pipelines that keep tens of thousands of game records consistent, edge functions, and general coding work. It speeds up how the machinery gets built and maintained. It does not decide what the site says or what gets published.
Everything front-facing is human-made. Our verdict badges, system icons and visual identity were commissioned from artists. Every review, retrospective, analysis and article is written, crafted and edited by a person. No AI writes our content, and AI-generated imagery is not used anywhere on the site.
Using AI to help write code is not the same as using it to make things. The thinking, the opinions and the words on this site are ours. Credits for the commissioned artwork and for every data source we draw on are listed below.
Every piece of our visual identity was commissioned from a working artist rather than generated. Brunimations and Royroyart, both on Fiverr, made the artwork below.
Brunimations
Commissioned artist. Badges, avatars and ranking artwork for Tarrmu's Reviews, delivered as custom illustration work.
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The Badges
The full review verdict badge set used across every review, from Masterpiece through to Skip.
Commissioned
The Latest Avatar
Tarrmu's Reviews' current channel avatar, used across the site, the rankings and our social profiles.
Commissioned
Ranking System Badges
The badge artwork for our ranking system, used wherever games are sorted and ranked on the site.
Commissioned
Royroyart
Commissioned artist. Emotes for the site and the channel, plus the member flairs that show how long someone has been with the site, delivered as custom illustration work.
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Member Flairs
The joined-member flairs shown next to a member's name, marking how long they have been part of the site.
Commissioned
Emotes
Custom emotes used across the site and the channel.
Commissioned
IGDB
The Internet Game Database powers our game catalogue — titles, cover art, release dates, platforms and more, so reviews are backed by accurate, up-to-date game data.
IGDB API
Wikidata
Structured facts about games — developers, publishers, release info and identifiers — are drawn from Wikidata, a free, open, collaboratively edited knowledge base.
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Wikipedia
Game staff and development credits are sourced from Wikipedia articles, with attribution provided where this information appears on the site.
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MusicBrainz
Soundtrack albums, full track listings and track durations on our game pages come from MusicBrainz, the open music encyclopedia.
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Steam
PC artwork, screenshots, store prices and achievement data for owned games come from Steam's public Web API and content delivery network.
Steam APIVGDB
OpenVGDB
Retro region coding, disc languages and product codes in our Regions & Codes panel are matched from OpenVGDB, a community retro game database.
Community
PriceCharting
Physical game values, condition grades and per-platform box art in the Physical Collection are supplied by PriceCharting under a paid data licence.
LicensedPSNProfiles
PlayStation trophy sets — trophy names, descriptions, tiers and icons — are harvested from PSNProfiles and credited to their community.
CommunityTrueAchievements
Xbox achievement sets, gamerscore values and achievement icons are harvested from TrueAchievements and credited to their community.
Community