Joonatan Itkonen's Reviews
Four years after its original release, God of War is finally on PC. The story is as great as ever, and the gameplay feels just as dated as before. It's still a worthwhile adventure, but here's hoping the sequel proves more inventive.
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Like the Springsteen song "Glory Days", Mario Party Superstars is more interested in remembering how good things used to be without ever taking a step forward into something different. It's a fun revisit to past glories, but there are better parties to attend.
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Age of Empires is one of the great strategy sims of our time, yet its fourth part feels aimless and unsure of itself. There are snippets of momentous ideas in the mix, yet it never reaches the heights of its predecessors. It's still fun, and maybe that's all we can ask from this franchise at this point.
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The story is great, the voice acting superb, and the gameplay is a tedious chore that drags it all down.
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Witty, charming, and full of charm, The Great Ace Attorney Chronicles is a winner for both fans and newcomers alike.
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Smart, weird, and cooky, Alan Wake Remastered is just as baffling and fun as ever. The combat gets tedious well before the end, but this inventive love letter to Stephen King and David Lynch is such a delight that it doesn't even matter.
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This minor miracle proves once again that it's in indie titles where we can find the most precious gems in gaming.
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Yes, it's packed with star power, and yes, it's got an M. Night Shyamalan-level idea behind it, but all that is irrelevant because 12 Minutes is a chore to play. It's a game that hates being a game and should have been a short film instead.
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It's just as good as the first one, and that's both a good and bad thing.
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Humankind has grand, sweeping ideas and it almost pulls them off. The scope is understandably limited compared to Civilization, but this is the kind of ambitious game design that deserves praise for trying, even if it doesn't always succeed.
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A dire and unfun attempt at sprucing up one of the worst "sports" ever invented.
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Skyward Sword is one of those Zelda titles that has aged the worst, yet it's still a part of a franchise that I love to bits, and that counts for something. The story is grand and ambitious, and that makes up for a flawed gameplay experience. At least a little.
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It's the first two classics perfectly remastered, now in the palm of your hand. What more could you want?
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Final Fantasy VII was a masterpiece when it was first released. Its remake is an ambitious attempt at recontextualizing the classic dieselpunk adventure for modern audiences, and it's a roaring success. It's one of the great games of a generation.
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I give Dark Alliance points for getting the visuals and the mood exactly right. It's just a shame they got everything else wrong.
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Necromunda is a budget title, and as long as you remember that, you'll have fun with this Doom-clone set in the Warhammer 40k universe.
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If we have to spend this long with characters we hate, at least make the exploration and biking mechanics fun. Instead, we get tedious busywork in fixing a bike that never feels like the real thing and a world full of fetch quests and very few scares.
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I Sherwouldn't recommend this one to anyone.
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Disco Elysium is one of the greatest games ever made. It's a lyrical, smart, funny, heartbreaking, and dazzlingly inventive work of art that sets a new standard for the entire industry to follow.
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Harvest Moon: One World has one thing going for it: it taught me to hate again.
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