James Cunningham


232 games reviewed
78.0 average score
80 median score
69.1% of games recommended
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4 / 5.0 - 0°N 0°W
Mar 1, 2018

Zero North Zero West is an amazing vacation into the unknown.

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4.5 / 5.0 - Sairento VR
Feb 10, 2018

While it's a bit creaky around the edges at times, Sairento VR‘s ninja action is truly fantastic when it gets moving.

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4.5 / 5.0 - Iconoclasts
Feb 1, 2018

Iconoclasts is an amazingly well-done game that never settles down for more than a minute, effortlessly switching from one challenge to another and never letting the player get too caught up on an area.

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4 / 5.0 - InnerSpace
Jan 16, 2018

While InnerSpace struggles a bit on the technical side of things, the core game is a wonderful flight though worn out but still beautiful sci-fi landscapes.

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4 / 5.0 - Floor Kids
Dec 19, 2017

Floor Kids is, at its core, Tony Hawk-style action where the beat is the rail and the dance moves string together into one long trick.

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3 / 5.0 - Tenta Shooter
Dec 15, 2017

Tenta Shooter is a perfectly decent bullet-hell arcade game with a simple mechanic that provides nice flexibility in both score-chasing and surviving the levels.

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4.5 / 5.0 - Okami HD
Dec 12, 2017

Okami was a high point of the PS2 era, fusing its action to an incredible art style that was years ahead of its time.

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Dec 7, 2017

While it takes a bit to open up, Sky Force Reloaded kicks in nicely once you've got a properly powerful ship and a nice selection of medals to chase after through its wide variety of levels.

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4.5 / 5.0 - Desert Bus VR
Nov 28, 2017

Desert Bus VR is deeply tedious but that's the whole point.

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Nov 20, 2017

Basically, Rive is pure 16-bit action from back when console games were still balanced between the arcade and more modern-style adventures.

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Nov 4, 2017

Spintires: MudRunner doesn't make a lot of sense on the surface.

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Oct 25, 2017

Yomawari: Midnight Shadows is wonderful, strange, scary, sad, creepy, startlingand cute in equal measure.

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3.5 / 5.0 - Megaton Rainfall
Oct 19, 2017

While Megaton Rainfall may have bitten off more than it can chew in regards to the stage it takes place on, the alien-fighting action is a fantastic spectacle.

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3.5 / 5.0 - Raiden V
Oct 16, 2017

Raiden V is a good, solid shooter and it helps that it's got the power of its heritage to draw on.

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4.5 / 5.0 - Axiom Verge
Oct 5, 2017

Axiom Verge was already one of the best Metroid-style games in years and it lands on the Switch like it belongs there.

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4.5 / 5.0 - SteamWorld Dig 2
Sep 20, 2017

SteamWorld Dig 2 is a huge, expansive and utterly fantastic mining/platformer, with a great variety of challenges and plenty of tools to attack them with.

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Sep 2, 2017

An Oath to the Stars is a fairly basic bullet-hell shooter, colorful and packed with swarms of firepower, but it never really takes off.

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3.5 / 5.0 - Redeemer
Aug 1, 2017

Redeemer is at its best when being a brawler, which it does most of the time.

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3.5 / 5.0 - Iron Crypticle
Jul 12, 2017

While a bit slow to get going, there's a great amount of variety in Iron Crypticle once the action heats up.

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4.5 / 5.0 - Nex Machina
Jun 20, 2017

Nex Machina is an utterly fantastic arcade twin-stick shooter that doesn't so much revolutionize the genre as get almost every aspect just right.

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