Evan Norris's Reviews
A competent, corny role-playing game with a lively battle system, dozens of recruitable characters, some narrative woes, and too many game-ending crashes.
The Contra collection finishes Konami's 50th birthday bash in style.
By combining the legal proceedings of Ace Attorney with the visceral combat and open-world hijinks of Yakuza, developer Ryu Ga Gotoku Studio has turned in a new, but familiar property.
Gato Roboto is everything you'd expect from a Metroidvania and, importantly, everything you'd want.
It's not as refined or as well-paced as some of the stalwarts of the genre, and its story mode is a let-down, but it's still a clever puzzle-fighting hybrid with many different modes.
Taken as a whole this second part of Konami's year-long birthday celebration is a worthwhile trip to the past.
Redout is a decent racing experience overall, chiefly for fans of moribund franchises like WipEout and F-Zero.
A serviceable sandbox shooter with wasted potential.
Shakedown: Hawaii has a lot to do and see, and maybe even more to say.
There's a lot to like here, for folks who crave cerebral strategy, reflex-based racing, and a good sense of humor.
Mortal Kombat 11 is an outstanding fighting game with new, more deliberate mechanics, a spectacular story mode, and loads of online and offline content.
Built according to the structure of Nintendo's 1988 take on ice hockey, it's an accessible arcade sports game that's particularly fun in local four-player bouts.
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.