Chris Plante


44 games reviewed
79.6 average score
83 median score
75.0% of games recommended
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Apr 1, 2020

Every so often, The Foundation produces a spark of what made the original campaign so memorable.

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Unscored - DOOM Eternal
Mar 17, 2020

Doom Eternal’s power fantasy is funny, playful, and a welcome break

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Sep 20, 2019

The magic, when it really materializes, is punctuating a perfectly executed stealth maneuver with a quack.

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Unscored - Astral Chain
Aug 26, 2019

Astral Chain is the best new Nintendo franchise since Splatoon

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Unscored - Baba Is You
Mar 13, 2019

The game has over 200 puzzles, and I’m roughly 50 deep. I plan to make my way to the finish line, not just because it’s a great game — and it is! — but because its obsession with rules has me rethinking the rules in every other game I love. It’s selfless in a way, a game that lets you bend its rules to appreciate the rules in everything else.

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Jan 9, 2019

If Super Mario Odyssey is the culmination of 3D Mario games, New Super Mario Bros. U Deluxe is the same for 2D Mario

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Unscored - The Messenger
Aug 27, 2018

But for those of us who love gaming history, and the ways it still impacts games today, The Messenger is a shaggy but lovable adventure that shouldn't be skipped as we enter the fall games deluge

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Unscored - Onrush
Jun 5, 2018

What I still find most appealing is the seemingly impossible nature of its action, vehicles endlessly slamming into one another in a flurry of wheels and steel.

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Sep 10, 2018

Eventually, Shadow of the Tomb Raider succumbs to the darkness, repeating many of the series' usual mistakes, but along the way it shines a thrilling and refreshing light.

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Unscored - The Crew 2
Jun 28, 2018

The Crew 2 is an uncanny mess and I'm enjoying it anyway

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Jun 20, 2018

The options to play how you want demonstrate how Nintendo remains one of the industry's leaders at making games for everybody — even when that game isn't the one some of us originally wanted.

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Oct 25, 2018

After Red Dead Redemption 2's story concludes, a huge epilogue begins, and the game's already gargantuan map grows even larger. I'm eager to dig into this postgame, where it seems I'll be free to focus on taking in the beautiful, meticulously simulated world, rather than hurling myself into the middle of it.

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4.5 / 10.0 - Contrast
Nov 12, 2013

Contrast is a frequently beautiful mess

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5 / 10.0 - Tiny Brains
Dec 2, 2013

Alone, Tiny Brains is a bad game; with friends it's just forgettable.

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7 / 10.0 - FRACT OSC
Apr 21, 2014

Fract is lonely, but it's also the best seat in the house

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The Frozen Wilds arrives in time to petition for a spot on Game of the Year lists. The expansion accomplishes this goal with ease, rehashing what worked the first time around. Sure, The Frozen Wilds doesn't add much new, and shares Horizon's flaws, but the expansion operates fine when taken as simply more of a great thing.

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8 / 10.0 - Zoo Tycoon
Nov 17, 2013

Zoo Tycoon overcomes some small issues with charm and a good heart

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8 / 10.0 - Jazzpunk
Feb 5, 2014

Jazzpunk doesn't aspire to be an excellent shooter or platformer. Instead, it aspires to and succeeds in having a great conversation with the player.

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8.5 / 10.0 - Torchlight II
Sep 25, 2012

Torchlight 2 doesn't reinvent the series, but there's an absurd amount more of everything that made the original great.

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8.5 / 10.0 - Cuphead
Sep 29, 2017

When I think of my time with Cuphead, instead of frustration I'll remember the dozens of tiny breakthroughs, when the impossible became possible, and a game that built an identity around difficulty helped me to feel, however briefly, undefeatable.

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