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Andrew Todd

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Favorite Games:
  • Mass Effect
  • GoldenEye 007
  • Gone Home

97 games reviewed
63.1 average score
58 median score
25.0% of games recommended

Andrew Todd's Reviews

Andrew lives in New Zealand, working in film and theatre in addition to being a games writer.

While it’s still one of the more outright comedies in the Telltale oeuvre, Guardians’ story is one of grief and loss and regret.

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May 24, 2017

Bloody Days’ constant references won’t make sense to anyone who hasn’t seen Reservoir Dogs, and fans of the film will loathe it with a seething intensity.

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May 3, 2017

The enemies feel like monsters sculpted out of plasticine from some studio-disowned animated Roald Dahl adaptation.

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May 7, 2017

What Remains of Edith Finch isn’t some Batmanny trudge through a peat-bog of dead kids and deader parents. It’s about learning and letting go respectfully, finding love and tranquility and even joy in death.

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Unscored - Thimbleweed Park
Apr 16, 2017

Hope your inventory contains blood pressure medication.

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May 4, 2017

Mario Kart 8 Deluxe feels like a victory lap, the delightful culmination of decades of refinement.

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Unscored - Yooka Laylee
Apr 20, 2017

Likely to appeal to the game’s twin demographics of children and, er, inner children.

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Unscored - Prey
May 16, 2017

After that, it’s just a gunfight.

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The game treats Lara like shit, threatening to freeze, drown, impale, burn, eat, or otherwise murder her at every turn.

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Unscored - Gravity Rush 2
Feb 5, 2017

One of the few open-world action games where I’d rather just zip around collecting crystals.

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Unscored - Obduction
Sep 4, 2016

Contained yet sprawling, outwardly simple yet inwardly complex, Cyan has delivered a welcome change of pace from 2016’s action-heavy release schedule.

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Unscored - For Honor
Mar 9, 2017

I can foresee a dedicated core of combat nerds jamming the shit out of For Honor, but it’s definitely not for everyone.

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Feb 24, 2017

Horizon: Zero Dawn is not just a great game - it's straight-up great science fiction.

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Unscored - INSIDE
Jun 30, 2016

At four or so hours, it’s an incredibly concentrated burst of imagination that outdoes its predecessor in just about every way.

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Sep 29, 2016

Bungie has tied a neat little bow on a game that started as a clumsy experiment and grew into a handsome online experience.

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Unscored - Battlefield 1
Nov 28, 2016

The fantasies I want to fulfil aren’t found in the trenches.

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Batman’s first episode ends on an exciting and intriguing cliffhanger, promising a story that feels genuinely new for the franchise.

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Unscored - Titanfall 2
Nov 27, 2016

The forgotten stepchild of Shooter Season 2016.

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Unscored - Shadwen
May 20, 2016

If only there were a Lily following the developers around, Frozenbyte might’ve been guilt-tripped into giving Shadwen the polish it needed.

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Unscored - Push Me Pull You
May 26, 2016

If you can get a group together, though, you’ll fall in love with Push Me Pull You.

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