Edwin Evans-Thirlwell


153 games reviewed
71.5 average score
75 median score
54.5% of games recommended
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Recommended - Psychonauts 2
Aug 23, 2021

As witty, eccentric and imaginative as the 2005 action-platformer, with a more developed understanding of mental health.

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No Recommendation / Blank - The Ascent
Jul 29, 2021

The Ascent's arcology setting is splendid, if heavily derivative - shame that all you can do here is gun and grind.

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Jul 2, 2021

Witty writing, evocative art and engrossing battles combine in a wonderful homage to classic tabletop games

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No Recommendation / Blank - Hood: Outlaws & Legends
May 13, 2021

Sumo Newcastle's debut is an engrossing but substanceless heist game - and an interestingly grim take on Robin Hood.

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Recommended - Tasomachi
Apr 13, 2021

A simple but quietly captivating 3D collectathon with a gorgeous setting.

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Apr 8, 2021

Outriders is its own greatest victim. There are some decent ideas in here – an absorbing cauldron of combat variables, some majestic geography, even a few guns worth holding onto – but they're dragged down and suffocated by a game that doesn't want to entertain you but hypnotise you with the prospect of another trinket.

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Jan 20, 2021

In this brief but insidious information game, you're an aide to a defeated commander-in-chief who is refusing to concede

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Recommended - Hitman 3
Jan 19, 2021

IO's final World of Assassination game is closer to a seasonal content update than a sequel, but it's a thrilling endeavour all the same.

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Jan 6, 2021

The novella's dated metaphors are ousted in the best moments of this interactive homage, but its alternative endings pull their punches

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No Recommendation / Blank - Airborne Kingdom
Dec 16, 2020

A lovely, mildly experimental city sim with some sinister undertones it never tries to explore.

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No Recommendation / Blank - The Dark Pictures Anthology: Little Hope
Oct 29, 2020

Supermassive still knows how to plunge you into paranoia, but the second Dark Pictures entry feels a little lost in the woods.

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Awe Interactive's hellbound original finds the music at the heart of the first-person shooter

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Recommended - CARRION
Jul 23, 2020

A squirming body horror labyrinth whose mix of ability-gating and backtracking slightly cramps its matchless creature design.

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Recommended - Creaks
Jul 20, 2020

A weird, wry and wholesome underground puzzler with spellbinding art direction and music.

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Jun 23, 2020

Persona 4 is a twisting tale of dreams gone rogue in a town sapped of purpose. It brings personal demons to life in gaudy but plausible ways, and uses this to rejuvenate the dog-eared framework of a town-and-dungeon fantasy RPG. Unceremonious as it is, the PC port leaves all of that peculiar magic intact. It’s just a shame that the insight and empathy on show here doesn’t extend to everybody.

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Unscored - Those Who Remain
May 28, 2020

A couple of nifty concepts can't save this uninspired genre piece from its shortage of character or fear.

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May 18, 2020

This is far from the most polished remaster I’ve played, and the original was a hit-and-miss affair to begin with. Judged in terms of Platinum’s own end-of-level trophies, this earns a silver award at best.

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Recommended - In Other Waters
Apr 2, 2020

Hypnotic art, otherworldly audio and captivating writing meet in an undersea exploration game that wants you to take your time.

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No Recommendation / Blank - DOOM Eternal
Mar 17, 2020

An even faster and bloodier but slightly wayward follow-up to a thunderous shooter reboot.

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Recommended - Nioh 2
Mar 10, 2020

An absorbing, tense and well-wrought samurai adventure let down by a little too much recycling and some muddled new systems.

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