Taylor Hidalgo
- Earthbound
- Shenmue
- Legend of Mana
Taylor Hidalgo's Reviews
Not A Hero isn't a game for everyone. It's flawed, repetitive, but works so well when it works.
Although it doesn't feel as full as New Leaf, Happy Home Designer is a fine game that should've aspired to more.
Assault Android Cactus is frantic, energetic, at times too difficult - but overall fantastic.
Yo-Kai Watch is a good variation on the monster collection genre of RPGs that will definitely please fans and earn a few new fans, but has just enough tiresome elements to keep it from being great.
Galak-Z does everything it tries to do exceedingly well, but it unfortunately tried very hard to be one of the most challenging shooters out there.
With a little bit more cohesion and fewer drastic system changes over the course of the campaigns, Hard West could have been amazing. Instead, it's merely quite good.
A beautiful, charming, humbling, and difficult experience that's a good fit for shoot 'em up fans, but perhaps strange and unwelcoming to newcomers.
Steamworld Heist is an absorbing world wrapped around a decent game whose technical bits take away from a stellar personality.
One of the best examples of how good the Japanese RPG can be, even if no single aspect sets the bar for the genre.
Like inventing and describing a new color, That Dragon, Cancer tries to describe something indescribable, and does an admirable job of it.
Spellweaver is a fine game, familiar, polished, and inoffensive.
Firewatch is an excellent, tense story, uncanny in spite its numerous beauties, and unmissable despite weaker mechanics.
Ultimate Chicken Horse does everything it tries to do very well, but a few quibbles keep it from greatness.
Mighty No. 9 is a trying experience, good when it works but exhausting when it doesn't.
Event[0] has the length and teething pains of a tech demo, but tells a story to beautifully to overlook without good reason.
Hyper Universe is good, it's worth trying it for sure. Just go in knowing its limits, there are a few more than you'd think at first glance.
Subnautica is a beautiful game, only occasionally marred by sluggishness and the odd, errant bug.
Overall, players who spend money on Defiance 2050 will find a few quality-of-life improvements, but most of the upgrades will be acquired through play.
Much like a peanut butter and jelly sandwich with the crust cut off, it's hard to feel anything too strongly about MapleStory 2.
Overall, it's hard to fault Apex Legends, but it also feels like it was trying to be something else too and couldn't quite bridge the gap. It is a fine game, one that will undoubtedly join an inescapable part of the streaming—and undoubtedly eSports—circuit. It just feels like there's potential in all of the polish, just wasn't given enough time to percolate and come out of the gate with something bigger.