Dylan Blight's Reviews
This is a gorgeous world with plenty of detail within levels that feels quite hollow and lacks both the excitement of exploring Horizon Zero Dawn and destroying the world, which is usually pieced together in a LEGO game.
Everyone should play Neva. With a story mode for anyone who hates combat and a narrative that can be taken at a surface level or delved further into, this is something exceptional gamers of all types and ages should be playing.
Help back by some clunky and tedious design elements, this is still a narrative worth sinking your claws into.
A magical journey from start to finish that hooked me from page to page.
A true must-play for 2024 and all PlayStation 5 owners, Astro Bot, rekindles a feeling of simplicity in the joy we can find in video games like nothing else this console generation.
It feels great to be in this purfect little cat-RPG world, and the smaller-scale RPG nature fulfilling my completions brain in a weekend is just what I need to release meow gamer purrs.
I’m happy to report that the game is as cute as it looks and has plenty of charm, adorable characters, and animal puns.
It’s tough to say for sure who No Rest For The Wicked is for at the moment. It’s an odd mix of genres with an uneven balance.
If this shows up on Game Pass or PS Plus Extra, dive in with some friends. Get as much enjoyment as you can out of it; otherwise, it’s hard to recommend to anyone other than the die-hard who MUST play every South Park game.
Someone will look at a screenshot of Penny's Big Breakaway and know it was a game made for them. It's colourful, has some head-bopping tunes and features a simple yet playful main mechanic in the yo-yo. There's plenty of fun to be had here, even if it's a real yo-yo of a package.
Diets & Deitites is such a fantastic idea for a game that brings together different cultures through music and food. It's a feel-good game; even if it made me feel crap about KFC, I had eaten the other night.
Don’t Nod has released 2024’s first truly surprising video game release with Banishers: Ghosts of New Eden. The 17th-century setting, ghost hunting and ethereal switching combat are all highlights, but building off what they do best, the characters, their relationships, and their story make this game unique.
This silly game often feels too difficult for its own good. The bullet-hell inspirations aren't as charming as the rest of the game, and looking back, the first game is easily a much better experience thanks to its gameplay and characters.
Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown is the revitalization of a franchise that has long been buried in the sand of uninteresting ideas.
I had a fantastic time with Detective Pikachu Returns, with more than a couple of jokes and moments having me laugh or smile at the screen. I would often wish I had been playing it with someone else in the room with me as I wanted to point out silly little jokes, comments from Pikachu or odd things the other Pokemon in the game were doing. It's got some issues, but I never once wanted to stop playing it. Now excuse me while I make a coffee!
The cast of characters here is super-likable and is the most I've enjoyed a High School cast in a video game since Life is Strange: Beyond the Storm. KO_OP may have taken a long time to get Goodbye Volcano High out the door, but it's been more than worth the wait for this final product, which is one of my favourite games of the year.
There's not much here aside from wholesome vibes and messaging, but the game never overstays its welcome, knowing it's a short and sweet experience from the outset and delivering a lovely Amazon Rainforest visit.
As the credits rolled for Venba, I began thinking about how this would be someone's favourite game of 2023 and maybe one of their favourites of all time.
Families can get more out of this as an entry-level Metroidvania. Still, even as much as the game succeeded in charming me at times with the core characters, it's hard to recommend this to anyone over the many other Nintendo Switch exclusive 2D platformers.
Although Speed Crew can initially seem confusing, once you click, you'll be yelling, "Pass the 3/4 torque wrench!" l