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Brodie Gibbons

Melbourne, Australia
The Dear Hunter
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Favorite Games:
  • Hotline Miami
  • BioShock
  • Guitar Hero

136 games reviewed
77.9 average score
80 median score
58.1% of games recommended

Brodie Gibbons's Reviews

When I'm not violating Han Zimmer's intervention order in the hopes he'll finally score my life, I can be found feeding my achievement addiction. I'm also a huge BioShock tragic.
8 / 10.0 - Pepper Grinder
Mar 29, 2024

Pepper Grinder is a rollicking platformer that combines some classic level design with revitalised traversal mechanics akin to Ecco the Dolphin's nose-first ocean-cruising, except on this occasion the nose is a big, bad-ass drill that makes short work of terra and pirate terrors alike.

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7.5 / 10.0 - Open Roads
Mar 28, 2024

Although Open Roads gives no reason to make this game's North American road trip an annual fixture on the calendar, the adventure itself is one worth experiencing. It's a family affair that welcomes you into its inner sanctum and leaves you in a state of adoration over its leading ladies' sincere performances.

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8.5 / 10.0 - WWE 2K24
Mar 4, 2024

WWE 2K24 is such a full, feature-complete wrestling game that it makes me thankful for the franchise capitulation from a few years ago. Without it, the digital squared circle likely wouldn't be what it is today, it certainly wouldn't have benefited from the three years of care, respect, and foundation we enjoy today. Instead, it'd remain a story unfinished.

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Just as it was ten years ago, Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons is a succinct, yet economical, adventure that wastes no time in delivering a beautiful and devastating co-op experience that, through this remake, can now be shared with another-even if that dilutes the game's novel concept as a result.

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9 / 10.0 - Ultros
Feb 12, 2024

Ultros takes the durable, and fortunately resurgent, genre of Metroidvania and places a clever roguelike spin on it that incorporates memory and gardening, placing it all within a cosmic womb orbiting a black hole at the edge of space. It'll be El Heurvo's art that's sure to capture your attention at first, but Ultros' several wedded ideas flower into a game that does well to keep it.

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Jan 17, 2024

The Last of Us Part II Remastered might ring up an emotional toll that some aren't ready to part with so soon after its original launch, however it's still a worthwhile release thanks in large part to its celebratory behind-the-scene glimpses at how the game came to be. Adding more value to the package is No Return, an excellent, compact roguelike that feels like an apt showcase for the game's blunt force combat.

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Dec 6, 2023

Arizona Sunshine 2 is a bloody, pulpy and, most importantly, meaty experience that turns undead dismemberment from a somewhat dated trope into a fun workout that gives you more than enough toys to play with. And with a loyal pup at your side, this sequel is not only a blast but it feels like the killer app the platform has been needing.

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9 / 10.0 - Knuckle Sandwich
Nov 23, 2023

Andy Brophy's Knuckle Sandwich will likely go down as the year's strangest and most endearing video game. It takes the framework of past icons such as Mother and Earthbound and injects a little bit of ocker into the mix to create an off-the-wall roleplaying game that'll play to both the nostalgia harboured for our sunburnt country as well as the genre's decades-long history.

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8 / 10.0 - Teardown
Nov 15, 2023

Teardown is a fun and ballistic sandbox for people intent on watching the world burn. Its war chest of tools and curated mods offer near limitless possibilities in the coolest game of its kind since Minecraft.

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7 / 10.0 - KarmaZoo
Nov 15, 2023

KarmaZoo is a charming and cute platformer that places co-operation and togetherness at the forefront of an experience that, without a keen community, could be a fleeting one. And that'd be a shame, because both Loop and Totem serve up an undeniably fun way to stay on the universe's right side.

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9.5 / 10.0 - Alan Wake 2
Oct 27, 2023

While I'm sure there were countless drafts and edits throughout the journey to this point, this Alan Wake II is proof that great things come to those who wait. Like breaking through after a thirteen year stretch of writer's block, I can only imagine the sense of relief in letting this monster of a game loose.

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6.5 / 10.0 - Ghostrunner 2
Oct 24, 2023

Ghostrunner II, for half of a game, manages to recapture the lightning in a bottle that made the first a high-octane thrill ride. The other half is a dull, albeit thematically rich, journey to an outside world that is, in theory, worthy of the runtime but fails in practice for the kind of game Ghostrunner is.

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8.5 / 10.0 - World of Horror
Oct 19, 2023

World of Horror is a must play for fans of the sickly and macabre. It's a confronting title on several fronts, from its haunting one-bit tales to its, at times, overwhelming role-playing systems. Once you get your head around it though, it's an endlessly replayable source of supernatural horror that more than honours the works of H.P Lovecraft and Junji Ito.

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9 / 10.0 - Cocoon
Sep 29, 2023

Cocoon's focus on recursive exploration, which sees you peel back the filmic overlay of several coexisting realities to writhe in the depth of their fathoms-deep trickery, is incredibly intelligent in its design and is truly the most technically impressive puzzle game I've played since perhaps Portal. And it achieves all of this whilst sharing clear genetics with its forerunners.

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Sep 21, 2023

On the back of Phantom Liberty, along with a really substantial rebuild of all of the game's core systems, Cyberpunk 2077 manages to wash its hands of its past failures and emerges as the genuine article. At last, it's the intoxicating escape I once thought it was and stands out, to me, as the premiere role-playing resort in what might very well be a modern golden age for the genre.

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8 / 10.0 - Gunbrella
Sep 14, 2023

Gunbrella is a wonderful, quirky noir-punk shooter that, like the abominations confronting the hero gunman, is made up of what should be many discordant parts. Yet what we get is a lore-rich world with slick movement in its bedrock that'll spawn an unlikely love of umbrellas not heard of since the day that Tom Holland splashed about in fishnets.

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9 / 10.0 - Starfield
Sep 1, 2023

If what you're hoping for is The Elder Scrolls or Fallout in space, then Starfield is that. Not only does it have countless stories begging to be sought out against a vast and beckoning star chart, it's also the most polished Bethesda Game Studios title we've ever had.

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Aug 17, 2023

In a market with so many deck-building games, leave it to Deconstructeam to turn the paradigm upright and create a card-builder, a brilliant outlet for player expression. The Cosmic Wheel Sisterhood is a stimulating crash course in coven politics of all kinds: identity, community, and straight up politics-politics.

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Aug 10, 2023

Stray Gods might be a well-written, narrative-driven murder mystery that drags us to Olympus and back again, but it fails to deliver anything remotely close to an earworm after hours of forgettable melodies. Though Bailey and Baker do enough to earn their flowers, the production itself does little to land Stray Gods a place among the musical pantheon.

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8 / 10.0 - Venba
Jul 31, 2023

Venba is a sweet, short-lived episode that presents the place held by food and cooking within our lives and cultures as near-on divine. It explores familiar relationships, as well as the ones we keep, for better or worse, with food itself, and left me with plenty to ponder as the credits rolled.

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