Jed Pressgrove


Favorite Games:
  • Galaga
  • Final Fantasy III (SNES)
  • Off-Peak

75 games reviewed
59.2 average score
60 median score
34.7% of games recommended

Jed Pressgrove's Reviews

Jed Pressgrove lives in Mississippi. He regularly writes game reviews for Slant and has been published in publications such as Paste and Unwinnable. His blog Game Bias has received WordPress' highest honor, "Freshly Pressed," and has been featured in Kill Screen, Rock Paper Shotgun, and Critical Distance.
Mar 27, 2017

Throughout, Troll and I often raises the question of just how much testing was done to spot and correct mistakes.

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Jul 4, 2016

Any potential for excitement is squandered by the fact that the zombies you encounter are typically unthreatening.

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Throughout this cynical gaming experience, the message of the show seems clearer than ever: reject dignity or die.

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Apr 25, 2017

Red Barrels's game is an immature and hateful slight at anyone who dares to believe in a divine creator.

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Oct 4, 2015

The mere suggestion of indie misery will captivate industry insiders and tantalize anyone else who may or may not get what Davey Wreden is going for.

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A plethora of technical limitations transform this game's quest for verisimilitude into a kind of farce.

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At least one aspect of the gameplay inadvertently confirms the feeling that Blazkowicz is just a shell of a person.

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Jun 27, 2017

The game's politics have negligible emotional impact due to contrived voice acting and obtrusive loading screens.

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The dialogue, mere filler between bouts, is more entertaining than the combat that’s meant to be the game’s focus.

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Ironically, the game grinds to a halt whenever it indulges in callbacks to the Legend of the Zelda brand.

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The uninspired material is unable elevate the game's moth-eaten ramblings about good and evil.

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Sep 23, 2019

Perhaps its efforts to fit in with the big dogs of the gaming world would be more tolerable if there were more variety to its challenges.

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Sep 3, 2019

Not only does the game cheapen the idea that a dog is man's best friend, it also falls apart like a cheap chew toy.

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Its boss fights highlight the contrived lengths that FromSoftware has gone to in order to satisfy players' thirst for difficulty.

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Oct 1, 2018

The fact that Capcom can't make this decades-old maneuver feel effortless is evidence that this series might need to go in a trash compacter like old machinery.

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Jun 27, 2018

Right from the start, Mario Tennis Aces, the eighth installment in the Mario Tennis series, feels inadequate.

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Aug 3, 2018

The game comes down to two rival parties blandly lumbering toward each other on largely identical stages.

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Mar 1, 2018

Metal Gear Survive aligns itself with too many corporate gaming shenanigans to register as unadulterated fun.

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This highly anticipated sequel to Xenoblade Chronicles is one of the most overindulgent games of the year.

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The sorry "story" segments largely amount to random combinations of the four main characters trading bad jokes, such as running the difference between "who" and "whom" into the ground.

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