James Cunningham's Reviews
You need to come up with a strategy on the fly and then stick with it, carrying it off to perfection to earn a decent score. That’s Scintillatron 4096’s biggest strength and harshest weakness, because there’s no recovering a level from a single mistake.
Dusk is easily one of the best pure-action FPSes to come along in years, mixing gunplay and exploration in equal measure.
I'll admit that I went into Earth Defense Force 5 a little concerned about series fatigue.
Despite its issues I kept on plugging away at Crimson Keep, not just to review it, but because it feels like if I can just figure out how to work around its shortcomings there's a great dungeon crawl waiting to be found.
Nostalgia is a tricky thing in that it tends to be a liar more often than not.
Cheap Golf is a far smarter game than its simplicity and retro style make it look.
Black Bird is a wonderful, sad, strange, funny, cute and bizarre shooter that can't quite make its gameplay match the quality of everything else.
Gal Metal breaks a lot of rules that have been standard in the music/rhythm genre, but with good reason.
Friday the 13th: Killer Puzzle could be viewed as a reskin of Slayaway Camp, which would be a problem if Slayaway Camp wasn't such a great puzzle game, but honestly more of the same is welcome.
Princess Bow has her work cut out for her.
Despite its issues I honestly enjoyed my time with Zone of the Enders 2.
Evergarden starts off looking fairly simple, but the more you play the deeper its options become.
Rifter is a fantastic neon-synth action platformer with a gorgeous, distinctive style and a rewarding challenge.
It's hard to talk about Mothergunship without mentioning Tower of Guns, but seeing as that was my go-to game for four months straight, I can't really consider that a problem.
Tempest 4000 is the final Llamasoft Tempest and an incredibly strong game to go out on.
Octohedron is an incredible pure-platforming challenge designed with endless creativity.
Zero North Zero West is an amazing vacation into the unknown.
While it's a bit creaky around the edges at times, Sairento VR‘s ninja action is truly fantastic when it gets moving.
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.
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.