Paul Broussard's Reviews
Crashing the party in style.
The absolute best Serious Sam 4 has to offer are things we've seen plenty of times before, and that just simply doesn’t cut it given the amount of annoyances it contains and how far other movement based shooters have come in the same time span.
Without any unique selling point that it handles at least competently, What Happened is ultimately hard to qualify as anything more than awful.
The attempt to tackle both stealth and combat creates a game that never really quite manages to fully get a grasp on either.
A case better left unsolved.
Xenoblade is one of the landmark titles in the genre over the past decade, and the Definitive Edition improves on it across the board.
A release worthy of wearing the remastered label.
Returning players will still find the fun game they knew back from 2013, but don’t expect to have any of the problems you had back then addressed now.
You’ll probably extract some enjoyment out of Chimera Squad, although you’re likely to find just as many problems to complain about along the way as I have.
Elevator going nowhere fast.
A blast to play.
Strip away the food based aesthetic and all that’s left is a very simplistic 2D shooter.
One of the better re-releases in recent memory.
Banish it back to whatever forgotten abyss it crawled out of, presumably one filled with lots of framerate drops and accompanied by a terrible metal soundtrack at all times.
There’s nothing that elevates it above its competition.
The spark and creativity that made the original Gamecube title something of a cult classic is here somewhere, but it has been buried underneath an increasingly large pile of gameplay annoyances and mechanics that add options without depth.
The first episode of Song of Horror is a genuinely unnerving experience, but ultimately fails to really find its footing as a game.
Showcases tangible improvements over both Fates and Echoes.
Not showing up anybody.
For a trilogy that’s been ported so often, very little has been done to address the niggles that do exist, and that’s a shame.