Evan Norris's Reviews
Arcade Classics is a satisfactory anthology for the Konami faithful.
Avalanche's successes in world-building and player freedom are significant, but insufficient to turn this love song to 1980s Sweden into a hit.
Show a lot of patience and the game will find a way to reward you.
Silky gameplay, bright graphics, and stellar MegaMech encounters make it required playing for fans of run-and-gun action.
With novel mechanics, new characters, and an ambitious expansion of the franchise universe, Blaster Master Zero 2 ranks among the better indie games so far this year.
You'd think a game with superfluous storytelling, repetitive gameplay, and relatively shallow hack-and-slash mechanics would struggle to coalesce into something decent, but this anime action title manages to do just that.
Considering the long time Crackdown 3 spent in development purgatory, it's not as bad as it could have been.
If you can look past some low-budget graphics, there's a nice stealth experience waiting for you in Aragami.
One of the deepest, most substantial, most polished productions of 2019.
With its anime stylings, rogue-lite rules, and hack-and-slash gameplay, RemiLore is an interesting experiment.
In this Valentine's Day metaphor, it's six roses short of a dozen.
Anyone who grew up loving Castlevania and Demon's Crest, keep this game on your wish list. Just don't pull the trigger until a patch is released.
Oniken is a faithful reproduction of something that wasn't very good to begin with.
If you can gather a team of four players and don't mind consulting a FAQ every now and then, this might be a good investment.
An easy recommendation for platforming and action-adventure fans.
An essential piece of the Resident Evil canon.
You owe it to yourself to play this hidden jewel of the sixth gen.
A satisfactory addition to your next game night.
The setting and characters deserve a sequel—indeed one is teased in a post-credits scene—with a greater focus on what 13AM does best: platforming.
Most of the time, unfortunately, it's satisfied with being safe, familiar, and unambitious.