Vikki Blake


98 games reviewed
71.0 average score
70 median score
32.0% of games recommended
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No Recommendation / Blank - Narcos: Rise of the Cartels
Nov 21, 2019

The hit Netflix show becomes a fun, if functional, turn-based strategy.

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No Recommendation / Blank - MediEvil
Oct 24, 2019

Daniel Fortesque's tale is retold with style, but the fundamentals frustrate.

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No Recommendation / Blank - Wolfenstein: Youngblood
Jul 30, 2019

Two players, two developers, but half the story: this spin-off isn't firing on all cylinders, but the combat is still hugely satisfying.

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No Recommendation / Blank - Sea of Solitude
Jul 10, 2019

A brief, frequently beautiful meditation on mental illness that can be overly blunt in its messaging.

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No Recommendation / Blank - Layers of Fear 2
May 28, 2019

A slick psychological horror plagued by poor pacing and infuriating instakills

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No Recommendation / Blank - Borderlands 3
Sep 19, 2019

The humour is even more annoying, the guns even more amazing and Gearbox's shooter is more divisive than it's ever been.

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Mar 29, 2019

An action-packed, if anticlimactic, close to Clementine's journey.

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No Recommendation / Blank - Generation Zero
Mar 25, 2019

A moody shooter undermined by a lack of polish and purpose.

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No Recommendation / Blank - STEINS;GATE ELITE
Mar 4, 2019

5pb's 2009 visual novel gets a sizeable makeover - but don't expect it to make new fans for the genre.

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No Recommendation / Blank - Rage 2
May 17, 2019

So much of this promising collaboration between id and Avalanche is unremarkable - but it's salvaged by bloody, brilliant combat.

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No Recommendation / Blank - OVERKILL's The Walking Dead
Nov 15, 2018

There are flashes of promise in this first-person shooter, but this is a mostly uninspired, unpolished waste of an opportunity.

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No Recommendation / Blank - The Occupation
Mar 4, 2019

A tense, imaginative thriller that buckles under the weight of its own ambition.

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No Recommendation / Blank - Jurassic World Evolution
Jun 14, 2018

Frontier follows up Planet Coaster with a licensed park simulator, with varied results.

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No Recommendation / Blank - Valkyria Chronicles 4
Oct 9, 2018

A breathlessly brilliant tactical RPG, it's just a shame that Valkyria Chronicles isn't quite as assured off the battlefield.

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No Recommendation / Blank - For the King
Apr 26, 2018

A beautiful turn-based RPG whose brutality can sometimes get the better of it.

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No Recommendation / Blank - Titan Quest
Jul 30, 2018

An admirable ARPG gets lost in a less than thoughtful Switch port.

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Recommended - The Callisto Protocol
Dec 2, 2022

Dead Space comparisons are impossible to avoid - but while The Callisto Protocol's missing some of the depth and tension, it makes up for it with production value and bloody-minded fun.

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Recommended - Grounded
Sep 26, 2022

Grounded's charming, Honey I Shrunk the Kids premise is elevated by its uniquely welcoming approach to wonder.

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Recommended - Eternal Threads
Jun 29, 2022

Those few quibbles aren't quite enough to sully Cosmonaut's otherwise thoughtful game, though, and it sank its talons in deep enough to keep me experimenting with "just one more" event into the wee hours. It's possible some may mislabel its careful pacing as slow, and others may think its prosaic presentation boring. For me, however - whilst it's not without its flaws - Eternal Threads presents its story, characters, and mechanical systems with care and precision, weaving together an entirely captivating experience.

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Recommended - FAR: Changing Tides
Feb 21, 2022

Far: Changing Tides' story is a little longer and its puzzles more refined than its predecessor, while its world is as beautiful as ever.

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