Kerry Brunskill


24 games reviewed
73.0 average score
80 median score
62.5% of games recommended
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Feb 14, 2024

Relink offers fluid combat against inventive bosses in gorgeous landscapes-this is an essential ARPG.

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Feb 13, 2024

Tomb Raider Remastered is an impressive and authentic update. Too authentic in some places, though.

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60 / 100 - The Last Faith
Nov 15, 2023

The Last Faith is a beautiful but inconsistent rehash of older, better games.

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85 / 100 - World of Horror
Oct 24, 2023

Atmospheric, imaginative, and enjoyably unpredictable-this is one of the year's best horror games.

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79 / 100 - Sea of Stars
Aug 28, 2023

Sea of Stars may not truly recapture the magic of '90s RPGs, but it's still a polished, enjoyable blend of old and new.

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Jul 19, 2023

Lakeburg Legacies is an awkward, goalless mix of contradictions and impersonal systems.

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Jul 5, 2023

Ghost Trick is an essential and engrossing experience for any PC gamer.

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An excellent remake, prequel, and game in its own right-Crisis Core has it all.

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Nov 9, 2022

A fun and engaging RPG with beautiful graphics and a bouncy pace.

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48 / 100 - Hokko Life
Sep 26, 2022

A bland alternative to a genre-defining game millions of people are very familiar with.

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59 / 100 - Unexplored
May 26, 2022

Unexplored 2 has potential, but right now the adventure's unreliable and storytelling's seriously flawed.

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The blend of all-out action, deep strategy, and Ancient's irreverent humour is as enjoyable as ever here, and smashing a huge castle-tank into evil things never stops being fun. Gotta Protectors: Cart of Darkness plays its story for laughs but the game itself is an expertly crafted challenge with lots to do and plenty more to keep coming back for.

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Feb 28, 2022

There may not be many games in here, but they do cover a broad range of genres and most of them are still great fun to play today. It's just a shame Switch owners have already had access to the majority of them, with the exact same features, for years already. The glaring lack of any extra features make it hard to appreciate the significance of the more obscure or basic titles unless you're prepared to go off and do some homework, and there are some very obvious milestones missing for no reason other than it allows Taito to make more money by splitting the games across multiple collections.

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Feb 12, 2022

Many of the avoidable snags found in GetsuFumaDen: Undying Moon were solved by genre predecessors long before this game was announced. There is no doubt that in a few patches time this could be a fantastic game - but that's if Konami, which hasn't been in many gamer's good books for a long time, actually grants the development team the time and the funding to work on it. As it stands the game could end up being something special, the trouble is other similar Switch titles already are.

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If you're going to release something titled Valis: The Phantasm Soldier Collection it's not unreasonable to expect it to contain a full complement of Valis games, even if only for one format. Unfortunately, those hoping for a one-stop Yuko (and friends) shop are going to be disappointed. What's here is delivered in a no-nonsense, serviceable fashion, and newcomers may well fall in love with the action heroine's slightly awkward games... only to find they're missing the final entry.

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Record of Lodoss War: Deedlit in Wonder Labyrinth doesn't take too long to beat - even the most curious/thorough/careful player is unlikely to go over the 10-hour mark - but when the adventure's this much fun and as densely packed with creativity, does it matter? At the end of it all you're far more likely to feel satisfied than short-changed, and Deedlit's tale is a surprisingly touching one regardless of how much or little you already know about Lodoss. If you're after something with the flavour of Symphony of the Night that doesn't feel like a shallow knock-off, this is a fine alternative.

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Dec 5, 2021

Resurrection is arguably one of the best of its genre even after all these years and a lot of competition (plenty of it coming from developer Cave themselves). It’s relentlessly challenging, breathlessly inventive and exhilarating to play; an essential purchase for confirmed shmup fans. But it’s also one that needs you to do a lot of homework to get anything meaningful out of it.

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Nov 30, 2021

Clockwork Aquario has been a long time coming, but it was definitely worth the wait. An obvious labour of love, this ill-fated arcade gem has been improbably recovered, restored, and reassembled, and it never feels like anything less than a carefully unearthed treasure that's been polished until it shines. It won't take long to beat - and it shouldn't, because a good 30-year-old arcade platformer is supposed to be short and sweet - but what the game lacks in length it more than makes up for in entertainment and raw creativity, with stages pitting you against everything from mechanical flying fish to a gigantic egg-dropping robo-penguin. It's the sort of game you come back to again and again because you want to rather than have to, and we feel lucky to have it.

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Nov 11, 2021

As a small, short experience, it's not entirely without merit, but if you enjoy lightly randomised action then the Switch already has the likes of Enter the Gungeon, Dead Cells, and Hades for you to play. Heaven's Machine is sadly best left for collectors to keep safely sealed away.

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8 / 10 - Gynoug
Nov 10, 2021

Gynoug hasn’t quite got that special extra spark that turns a great game into a spectacular one, but even so it’s still a unique and thoroughly enjoyable thirty-year-old shmup capable of standing proudly next to any other sold on the eShop, and yet another affordable retro re-release sitting in that perfect middle ground between modern convenience and hardcore authenticity.

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