John Walker


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Unscored - Megaton Rainfall
Nov 16, 2017

The most bizarre combination of ambition and the complete lack of it in one game. Astonishing, but flat.

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Nov 14, 2017

Need For Speed Payback is really very terrible indeed

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Nov 3, 2017

Given how bad it could have been – hell, was expected to be – it's quite the pleasant, sometimes harrowing, surprise.

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Unscored - Engare
Oct 26, 2017

Engare is definitely too short – more levels would have been very welcome. And it's definitely very simple. It's testament to what a smart and interesting game it is that neither of these things put me off. In fact, it's a game that just kept putting a smile on my face as I solved each level.

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Unscored - Jydge
Oct 5, 2017

Gosh it's fyn. It's ytterly ridicyloys, bombarding yoy with new items like nothing else, jyst constantly asking yoy to go have some fyn. "How aboyt trying that level with this?!" Okay! "Now this!" Syre thing! And that's enoygh.

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Unscored - Hob
Sep 26, 2017

Hob is like a beautiful example of how to make a third-person action game.

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Unscored - Necrosphere
Sep 11, 2017

A super-tricky game with a wonderfully smooth difficulty curve, and a masterclass in design when managing to offer real depth and challenge despite limiting itself to just two buttons from start to finish. You'll feel amazing when you succeed.

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Unscored - Songbringer
Sep 1, 2017

It's not the deepest game, but it's smart, ridiculously pretty, and has me completely hooked.

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Aug 30, 2017

A slightly less good version of the two year old phone game. Which is still a top game, but, you know, not really something to write home about.

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Unscored - No Man's Sky
Aug 24, 2017

With Atlas Rises, it's worth returning to No Man's Sky

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Unscored - Agents of Mayhem
Aug 15, 2017

For whatever reason, this feels like a game that wants to reach as high and far as the games that came before it, and simply can't.

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Unscored - Sundered
Aug 9, 2017

A completely wonderful Metroidvania, but at the same time, another Metroidvania.

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Unscored - The Low Road
Aug 3, 2017

I tried so hard to like this one, because of its immediately attractive qualities, and the huge promise of that opening phone call subterfuge puzzle. But despite eventually revisiting that idea once, it never lives up to any of the early promise. Gosh though, someone ought to make that game.

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Unscored - The Long Dark
Aug 1, 2017

With a better, more involving path, this could have been really something. As it is, it's the glorious The Long Dark with a reason for surviving, and that definitely proves enough.

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Jul 27, 2017

If you put up with its clumsiness, there's a tough-as-nails isometric twin-stick action-me-do (that's the one!) here to play. Just one that doesn't really stand out from the crowd.

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Unscored - Kingsway
Jul 21, 2017

I've not gone deep into the game, despite having given it a whole pile of my hours, because it's the sort of thing that'll take me ages to chip away at until I wonder how I ever used to be so bad at it. Which is the sign of this mishmash genre at its finest, for me. I hope for you too.

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I've had such a splendid time just mellowing and wallowing in Yonder: The Cloud Catcher Chronicles, not needing to care why it has such a terrible name, not being rushed along, or nagged to do anything. Sure, I now want to also play a game that rushes me along and nags me to do things, ideally with a sword to swing around, but what a wonderful piece of balance Yonder offers.

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Unscored - Black The Fall
Jul 12, 2017

For me it felt far too derivative of Inside (it was of course in development before Inside's release, but looked awfully different), which was itself derivative of Limbo, and without the precision of either. Utterly beautiful when it remembers to be, but more irritating than fun in execution.

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The characters all strongly stick with me after finishing, and I think that's probably more important than anything else.

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Unscored - RiME
Jun 1, 2017

I've had such a splendid time with Rime, so deeply enjoyed its expansive and sumptuous world, and found myself not missing the attack button at all. Not when there's a sing/shout button that does so many more interesting things.

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