Anthony John Agnello


58 games reviewed
73.9 average score
80 median score
61.7% of games recommended
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Unscored - Knack
Nov 19, 2013

The chapters are so long, they become tedious, even on the surprisingly vicious "Normal" difficulty setting. The challenge of the game could be a draw, but when coupled with the nonsensical morass of Knack's fantasy, there's no good reason to keep pushing forward. Without a clear center, Cerny's game feels as hollow and vulnerable as its hero, a pile of disparate parts all too ready to crumble at a moment's notice.

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Nov 25, 2013

Super Mario 3D World isn't some perfect fix for the aging game maker, but it is Nintendo's tomorrow.

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Feb 21, 2014

Double Helix turns in the best playing Strider ever made, but its game lacks the vital visual panache of its predecessors.

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Mar 3, 2014

The game is as confused as its protagonist, and it's hard not to wish that the studio could have conquered its inner conflict and found its wings.

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Mar 26, 2014

Yoshi's New Island isn't the creative masterclass in platforming the original was, but it is the best platformer Nintendo's released for the Nintendo 3DS to date.

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Apr 4, 2014

Yaiba succeeds admirably because it does what so few intentionally "so bad it's good" games do: It makes everything work.

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Apr 16, 2014

Trials Fusion gracefully sidesteps the same-old treatment with new flavors and added complexity that build on RedLynx's well-established foundation.

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Most of the time, the game works, and some of it can be amusing if not nourishing. It's just stupid. Very, very stupid.

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May 8, 2014

Kirby Triple Deluxe is an approachably frivolous game on the outside, but it's hiding an expertly engineered, hilariously weird game within.

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May 22, 2014

Beyond its mechanical parts, The New Order is a relief because it's a reminder that profundity doesn't necessarily need to be linked to big, universe-shattering ideas.

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Murdered: Soul Suspect takes the clever premise of a ghost detective, and sabotages it with a protagonist as thin and dull as his ethereal specter.

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Jun 19, 2014

EA Sports UFC has failed to create something as immediately entertaining as it is rewardingly complex.

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Unscored - Shovel Knight
Jul 1, 2014

The game also sings because it's never a slave to the perceived merits of tradition. It would have been all too easy to, say, shove in some little floating Shovel Knight heads, making you collect pointless extra lives for no reason other than that's how things were done back in the good old days. Yacht Club Games is smarter than that, and their game is, too.

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Jul 24, 2014

Abstracted through pixels, text, and the lens of science fiction, God Will Be Watching is a fantasy that captures a very real, disturbing hint of apocalyptic reality.

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Aug 1, 2014

Mario Kart 8 is a sterling example of Nintendo at their best as craftsmen, a game whose attention to detail and joy is mostly unsullied by some unfortunate misunderstandings about how people communicate online.

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Aug 1, 2014

Rogue Legacy hooks you immediately with speedy action, and keeps you hooked with deep character building and exploration.

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Ultra Street Fighter IV is, for a casual player, the best Street Fighter IV, thanks to a large roster of well-balanced fighters.

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Akiba's Trip can easily be mistaken for what it's satirizing, but beneath that façade is an intelligent game with a surprisingly noble purpose.

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Ultimate Evil Edition is an admirably cultivated realization of Diablo III's hidden ecosystem of rules, action, and randomly generated loots.

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Unscored - CounterSpy
Aug 26, 2014

Had it gone with a more crafted experience, zeroing in on a consistent tone and a series of clearly defined challenges, CounterSpy could have been more Three Days Of The Condor rather than This Means War. All it needed to do was remember the 7 Ps, one of the British military's enduring adages: Proper prior planning prevents piss poor performance.

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