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Nicola Ardron

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Favorite Games:
  • Minecraft
  • Mass Effect
  • Dark Souls

153 games reviewed
70.5 average score
70 median score
29.8% of games recommended

Nicola Ardron's Reviews

Likes to shoot stuff and wear pretty shoes.
6 / 10.0 - Dead Effect 2
Jan 24, 2017

Dead Effect 2 falls into the "so bad it's good" category of things with a certain B-movie charm to it. Just don't expect a technically polished shooter.

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Jan 31, 2017

Knee Deep has some interesting and fun mechanics and delivers a reasonable mystery. It is just a shame that the quality shown at the beginning doesn’t last until the end.

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Sabotage is a good introduction to the DLC schedule for Infinite Warfare, with some solid multiplayer maps and a very strong Zombies outing.

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5.5 / 10.0 - Uncanny Valley
Feb 8, 2017

Uncanny Valley shows a lot of promise, but the harsh reality of its non-linear narrative structure and reliance on multiple playthroughs to make sense of it all means it is asking too much in the face of the early game's uninspired, repetitive gameplay.

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7.5 / 10.0 - Sniper Elite 4
Feb 13, 2017

A solid sharpshooting experience that knows where its strength lie. The open ended nature of each level, as well as the myriad ways to despatch enemies makes each level interesting, but it is the X-Ray kills that remain the centrepiece of this particular franchise.

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Feb 20, 2017

Kitty Powers Matchmaker has a wonderful kitsch charm to it, delightfully self-aware and witty. It does start to show its limitations after extended play, but overall it is great fun and pretty much nails the awful dating experience.

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8 / 10.0 - Forma.8
Feb 21, 2017

Forma.8 is an utterly gorgeous and affecting take on the familiar 2D Metroidvania style game with some clever puzzles for your plucky little probe to navigate.

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7.5 / 10.0 - Lego Worlds
Mar 13, 2017

LEGO Worlds is a delightful game, full of whimsy with tonnes of things to see and do. The draw of exploration is excellent as is the myriad of items to collect, but frame rate issues and quest bugs slow the gameplay down a bit.

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7 / 10.0 - Loot Rascals
Mar 25, 2017

Loot Rascals is a quirky turn based card strategy game that incorporates rogue-like elements. The off the wall presentation hides a surprisingly deep system to manage, but luck often hampers the best laid plans meaning progression feels limited at times.

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7 / 10.0 - Snake Pass
Mar 30, 2017

Snake Pass is a unique take on the classic puzzle platformer with a genuinely inventive style of movement that reinvents the genre, but a difficult camera and archaic save system takes some of the shine off.

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8.5 / 10.0 - Blackwood Crossing
Apr 4, 2017

Blackwood Crossing is a surprising release, a game that delicately explores the difficult emotions of grief, guilt and love told through the eyes of two orphaned siblings.

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Apr 9, 2017

The Ringed City DLC is a mixture of things, unfairly difficult in the beginning, it opens up and delivers a thematically fitting end to the series of the whole. Great boss fights as well as a new PvP mechanic elevate it above the previous DLC.

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6.5 / 10.0 - GNOG
May 9, 2017

GNOG is a game that defies explanation. It is a weird, abstract puzzle game that has a sense of play and about it, but ultimately leaves you wanting a little more.

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8 / 10.0 - Prey
May 12, 2017

Prey is a game that meshes together a variety of ideas into a game that rewards exploration and experimentation and provides players with a fun toolbox with which to do so.

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8 / 10.0 - Portal Knights
May 18, 2017

Portal Knights takes inspiration from a variety of games, blending the crafting and building of games like Minecraft and merging loose RPG elements to make it a sandbox game with a goal.

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Jun 30, 2017

This isn't a bad game, but there are some omissions that have been with the series forever which are strangely missing.

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A slow start, but Hero in Residence ends on a high note with an interesting new enemy and a very funny new character.

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Jul 17, 2017

Yonder: The Cloud Catcher Chronicles is a lovely, sedate open world adventure game that inexplicably gates its crafting mechanic behind an obtuse, tiered system that renders it moot.

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7 / 10.0 - Aven Colony
Jul 25, 2017

Aven Colony is a gentle city builder where you will be tasked with growing colonies in different locations each with their own challenges. Where it lacks in depth it more than makes up for it in accessible gameplay, perfect for dipping into.

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Aug 28, 2017

A unique blend of marble madness and tower defence that does become repetitive after a while, but sits nicely in the spot reserved for games that are great to dip into now and again.

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