Evan Norris's Reviews
The Alliance Alive is yet another terrific RPG on 3DS, a platform that refuses to go quietly.
Add enough human contestants and the fun rises exponentially.
Clustertruck is a great, inspired idea. That idea never makes a proper translation from the theoretical to the practical, however.
Despite suffering from some unoptimized console controls, bland combat, and boring level design, Titan Quest is a serviceable RPG in the vein of Diablo and Baldur's Gate.
An adventure worthy of the Assassin's Creed faithful, particularly those seeking a down-to-earth story that fills in the backstory of the North American brotherhood.
Blasters is a satisfactory take on a popular VR genre, elevated by the breadth of its weapon options and its physically demanding bullet hell action.
The VR love child of Lemmings and Pikmin.
It's a fine game, and a great way to honor the heritage of an indigenous community.
A nice little package that combines light management elements with survival-horror gameplay.
An engaging, enjoyable action-platformer with a strong story, a neat partner mechanic, a masterful soundtrack, and some opulent pixel art.
For all its clever notions and science-fiction world-building, The Fall 2 struggles to summon interesting gameplay scenarios beyond its admittedly strong final act.
Perhaps, as was the case for Supersonic Acrobatic Rocket-Powered Battle-Cars, Disc Jam is just a few years and a few tweaks away from something special.
It's packed with content and fun to play, just weighed down by the process of farming stars.
There is an abundance of pixel-art platformers on the market today, many of them indistinguishable from one another, but Sandberg's game stands out.
Sits in a weird middle-ground between lazy exploration and objective-based flying, without fulfilling the accessibility of the former or the difficulty of the latter.
By focusing on the unique story-delivery mechanisms of video games and providing a sufficient level of interactivity, The Vanishing of Ethan Carter side-steps many of the pitfalls associated with narrative-driven adventure games, even as it struggles to escape the sub-genre's orbit.
The heart and soul of the original Tokyo Xanadu is alive and well, buttressed with new characters, dungeons, monsters, features, and technology.
Its clever storytelling, vast and diverse overworld, challenging boss battles, and abundance of side-quests make it a winner.
There are hundreds of stages, scores of collectibles, and over a dozen uniquely-themed levels in this game. But will you survive long enough to see them all?
While it doesn't bear the Trine name, Nine Parchments represents the best of that series: fun co-op action and high production values.