Tyler Colp


13 games reviewed
64.4 average score
68 median score
33.3% of games recommended
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67 / 100 - PAYDAY 3
Sep 26, 2023

Payday 3 could be one of the slickest co-op shooters around, but it's mired by a grindy progression system and its always-online nature. It needs some time to cook before it's worth digging in.

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85 / 100 - Diablo IV
Jun 10, 2023

Diablo 4 is packed with powerful class builds and exciting loot to find, but clouds its most creative aspects with an overly bleak world and restrictive endgame systems.

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44 / 100 - Redfall
May 4, 2023

Redfall's empty open world, flimsy shooting, and siloed systems make for a flat, dull experience.

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Apr 26, 2023

Despite its gacha systems, Honkai: Star Rail is an impeccable turn-based RPG with a killer visual style

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69 / 100 - Hi-Fi Rush
Feb 2, 2023

Despite it's killer opening act, Hi-Fi Rush fails to sustain its blend of rhythm and action all the way until the end.

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49 / 100 - Gotham Knights
Oct 20, 2022

Gotham Knights attempts to differentiate itself from the Arkham series with new characters and a new canon, but spends most of its length poorly imitating what made those games great.

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74 / 100 - Overwatch 2
Oct 15, 2022

Overwatch 2 revitalizes the stagnant hero shooter, but misunderstands what made it great.

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90 / 100 - Elden Ring
Feb 23, 2022

An open world action RPG from FromSoftware that reaches new heights, but spends too much time in the familiar.

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Nov 30, 2020

Maybe open-world games don't need to boast 175 hours of playtime even while torturing developers with months of crunch. Immortals, and by extension Ubisoft, isn't immune to this problem, but there are pieces here that argue for a shift in the scope of a genre that has historically been more interested in simulating the minute details of a horse's genitalia than caring for the people who worked on them. Immortals makes an impression because it's not a massive game like Assassin's Creed Valhalla, even if it benefits from the many systems and ideas that Ubisoft's open-world games have refined over the years. Its sharpest ideas have just enough time to dig in before the game smacks you back down into an experience you could have anywhere else.

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3.5 / 10.0 - Calvino Noir
Aug 25, 2015

[T]here's a cynicism deep-rooted in Calvino Noir, a heavy darkness you can't escape. Death is always lurking, success is futile. Maybe this is the best representation of noire in games that nobody wanted.

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5 / 10.0 - Submerged
Aug 4, 2015

Combined with no challenge to its climbing, other than a few misdirections that effectively punish you with the tedium of having to go backwards, the game misses the mark on taking its promising and, at least, baseline effective parts and turning them into something as strong as Shadow of the Colossus. Even if you were to remove that comparison, the game stumbles to create a consistent experience on its own. And at some point, it would be fair to argue that the comparison is being a little generous.

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Jul 26, 2015

But those disappointing moments are ultimately rare. Hatoful Boyfriend earns almost everything else it does. Like those fantastical and ridiculous movies and novels, it demonstrates an ability to rise above its base, absurd concepts and weaves several stories that last. It's much more than it seems, and begs for you to play it and discover its depth.

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Jun 29, 2015

But when you're playing a character that chooses to do all the things you can make her do, she should have understandable reasons to do them. Elena doesn't, and that numbs most of the game. I don't think Whispering Willows intended for me to ask myself why I needed to keep playing for the majority of my time with it, but it did. It's the kind of game that lacks satisfying substance, the kind of game where all you can say is that you finished it.

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