Travis Northup's Reviews
Evil Dead: The Game is an asymmetric multiplayer game of cat and mouse that's compelling and exhilarating, despite being rough around the edges - much like the horror/comedies that inspired it.
Trek to Yomi absolutely nails the samurai aesthetic in a satisfying but modest adventure.
Postal 4: No Regerts is cringingly juvenile and painful to play in between all the times it's hard crashing.
Tiny Tina's Wonderlands is a fantasy-themed Borderlands spin-off that's hilarious, action-packed, and ridiculous, even if it plays it a bit safe.
Bugs and PvP aside, The Witch Queen delivers the best version of Destiny 2 yet.
CrossfireX's pair of single-player shooter campaigns are sloppy, soulless, and mercifully brief.
Far Cry 6 Joseph: Collapse is a brief, bland dive into one of the series' more forgettable villains.
Dying Light 2 Stay Human is an ambitious zombie action adventure that's packed with top-notch parkour, an awesome open world, and every painful bug in the book.
Windjammers 2 is a tightly balanced, addictive game of combat air hockey that will have you screaming at your friends.
Praey for the Gods is a Shadow of the Colossus-inspired adventure with sluggish controls, distracting survival mechanics, and painful bugs that make it hard to recommend.
Century: Age of Ashes is a solid, beautiful dragon-focused fantasy dogfighter that's within striking distance of greatness, once it hoards more content and balances its classes.
Nerf Legends is a broken, painful slog that you shouldn't even consider playing as a joke.
Riders Republic is an excellent, arcadey extreme sports sandbox with bonkers multiplayer events, an impressive open world, and unfortunate server issues.
The Riftbreaker is an addictive, complex, and satisfying RTS/bullet hell hybrid, even while it suffers from some very noticeable performance issues.
World War Z: Aftermath is another lumbering step forward for zombie-kind, even if it doesn't completely satisfy one's appetite for brains.
Sable is a beautiful, minimalist voyage that's hindered by bugs and bland puzzles.
I Am Fish is a physics-based literal fish-out-of-water story that's equal parts hilarious and masochistic.
Maneater: Truth Quest is a conspiracy-themed expansion with a few fun ideas and lots of repetitive quests.
Recompile is a short-lived metroidvania with a great story but forgettable platforming, puzzles, and combat.
The biggest problem with all the logic puzzles in Chronicles won’t be a surprise to veteran players though: most of the time the solution is just too obvious. There are exceptions of course, especially in each game’s latter cases, but it’s not uncommon to be several steps ahead of each of the characters as they peel back layer after layer to get to the truth. This can lead to some frustrating parts where you’re not sure which piece of evidence to present, because you’re already way ahead of the characters’ current understanding of the sequence of events. But like I said, this isn’t a new problem to the series and ones that fans (myself included) are likely to be quick to forgive.