Love'em! And they are not narrow at all (coming from someone who needs a wide toe box).
The most comfy out of the box show I've ever skated.
i didnt do the review this time, but i bought them for myself because i really loved the Romero Laced. Granted, i have wider feet but goddamn those shoes really taught me the meaning of "breaking in". my feet felt numb for the first 15 minutes. now i could hardly imagine a much more comfortable shoe, but damn, they did prove my patience.
I hate talking shit, but damn this review is bad. no real information or critical thinking and not nearly enough time spent skating the shoe to even get an idea of the durability. weartested and ripped laces would honestly be better of showing weekly pictures of a shoe until its no longer skateable and then write a short, opinion based write up instead of skating a shoe for a week and saying every shoe is perfect. idk if maybe theres some politics im not aware of but reviewers should be able to actually criticize a shoe
no worries about talking shit, i actually like that, helps us improve. skating a shoe until it is destroyed would lead to significantly less reviews, at least on our end since we do not have a team of 15 people skating and reviewing shoes. plus its hardly possible to skate the same amount every week, sometimes you break boards and skate the shoe with newer griptape again, and so on.
i totally understand your point, but its simply near damn impossible for a non-profit-site.
to the point about criticizing a shoe: if you read our last few reviews, we did put critique in there. granted, we will never use phrases like "fuck, dat shoe skates like my bae during that time of the month, dat colorway tho", but we put our share of opinion in there. this time, we simply really liked the shoe, and if you try it we are pretty sure that you would too.
The thing is, they need to change their scoring system. Giving a 9/10 or 10/10 is too common in their reviews, nowdays. A 10/10 should mean that it is the perfect shoe ever, while a 5/10 means it's average (maybe they could compare it to most common skate shoe today, the Janoski or someting like that) . Reviewers must be more biased towards modern shoes.
thanks for the input. we decided against a scoring system simply because we have a small team of people skating a shoe, but hardly ever more than one gets the same (hell, we would love to get more than one pair for every test though).
this leads to the problem that different preferences would lead to different scoring, if i got a nike tech shoe i would surely rate it differently than some clean vulc shoe simply because i prefer the latter. the point with being biased towards modern shoes is another example why a rating system isnt optimal, imagine scoring a modern skateshoe with a rating system of like 3 or 4 years ago.
that being said, thanks for the input of all you guys, we`ll surely keep them in mind.