Nicholas Mercurio


116 games reviewed
83.2 average score
84 median score
77.6% of games recommended
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Dec 16, 2024

A very pleasant and engaging adventure, Flint: Treasure of Oblivion reaches the goal without distorting the genre and not inventing anything particularly new in the scenario of tacticians with RPG elements. Shuffle the cards on the table by taking inspiration from Baldur's Gate 3, inserting the dice mechanic and, in the meantime, detail an intense story polished to reach as many players as possible. If you haven't read Treasure Island, you want to get closer to Stevenson and then buy this toy here, then this adventure could give you unexpected emotions.

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7 / 10.0 - FAIRY TAIL 2
Dec 11, 2024

Fairy Tail 2 improves the combat system, now clearly more action, but it fails to create a playful structure without depth and with few positive sides within it. It is a rather compassionate adventure, which still manages to entertain but not to upset the cards on the table.

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Dec 5, 2024

Uncle Chop's Rocket Shop is a very good video game that manages to fit the simulation soul and the roguelite one. Making mistakes makes poor Wilbur's life a real hell like the real one, and what he manages to achieve is not always optimal. What is really great, however, is this pearl of a game here that manages to do all the right things and implement simulation mechanics that are really well integrated within it. To be had seriously, both if you love space and if you need to stock up on a similar video game.

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Nov 18, 2024

Killing Time: Resurrected is the perfect combination of exploration and the latest shooting. Nightdive Studios has been able once again to improve a video game and make it enhanced, modernizing some things on the gunplay side and offering animations that are really beautiful to look at. It could really be much more than a classic moment to enjoy a work from the past.

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Nov 12, 2024

Not very different from other GIANTS Software productions, Farming Simulator 2025 certainly brings some interesting news, implementing three new biomes and as many different methods to deal with the experience. Recommended for anyone who needs to get their hands dirty with mud and for those looking for a quiet experience.

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7.5 / 10.0 - While We Wait Here
Nov 7, 2024

While We Wait Here tells a very pleasant story. Despite the absence of a trial and error that I would have found very apt within the title, the parts dedicated to the preparation of dishes are also well integrated. The absolute pro goes to dubbing and atmospheres. I've always dreamed of making puncakes while the world is disintegrating out there.

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Oct 28, 2024

Dragon Age: The Veilguard is a work that arrives after ten years at the proverbial litmus test. It is immediately clear how complex the project has been and how the gaming world has changed over time. Strong of a nice combat system, a convincing narrative and a good development of relationships with the other characters, on some points it does not fully succeed in reaching the goal. I admit that so many words are actually too many, and I actually hope that someone has made it to the end... But there could really be no other analysis for such a delicate work. It will be the sales that will decide if it will be the actual relaunch of the series. In addition, of course, to us players of the franchise.

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Oct 25, 2024

After the bizarre variations of Night Springs, The Lake House brings us back to the survival horror genre along with another of the endless faces of the Wakeverse. In less than three hours, the essences of Control and AW2 are condensed, distilled and set aside for the future... which promises to be extremely exciting. However an extra hour or two to give the events more breathing space would not have hurt.

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Enjoyable, rich and long-lived, Romancing SaGa 2: Revenge of the Seven arrives with the aim of carving out its own space in today's market. Coming out in a truly fiery October is a little self-defeating, it must be said, but the experience could - both for the veterans of Metaphor: ReFantazio and Silent Hill 2 - be a great blast from the past and, at the same time, a nice way to experience a truly atypical JRPG.

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Oct 15, 2024

I'm not kidding when I say that Jamboree is quite rich and varied in many mini-games and activities. So full of news, so many additions and new discoveries that it is the best chapter of the Mario Party franchise since anyone could remember. There are plenty of works in the franchise, however: so many, different and peculiar that they have become fundamental for the creative development of the Big N. The only recommendation is to try not to anger some friends because of winning a star before they manage to reach it. In that case, pretend to be dead.

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Oct 8, 2024

Shattered Space is a DLC that expands the lore of the world of Starfield, detailing a pleasant and well-concied tale, which makes clear the gruesome and brutal plot of House Va'ruun, which absolutely deserves consideration, from now on. From a playful point of view, here, I would have expected a little more, with some additions as has happened in the past with other Bethesda works. The final result is still very good.

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Excellent and always on point, Kan Gao succeeds in the complex attempt to propose an adventure as usual special and touching, touching the right chords through a simple but effective plot. The goal of the production is to revive part of the experience of To the Moon, a goal that is achieved in an absolutely noble way. The gameplay, not particularly changed compared to the past, focuses on classic and already known dictates. Also on this front, but because the operations of the Canadian developer do not change, not much could be expected. He prefers to focus on emotions, showing them off. An excellent act of beauty.

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Sep 27, 2024

A remastered work as simple as it is effective, and I will certainly be repetitive. Lollipop Chainsaw RePop arrives at the goal and with an interesting purpose: to be able to entertain old players and beyond. It could be fitting in after finishing other more challenging, such as a Frostpunk 2, or an alternative Black Myth: Wukong, in which knowing how to beat is an obligation.

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9 / 10.0 - Halls of Torment
Sep 23, 2024

Halls of Torment è davvero una figata fotonica ed è giusto indicarlo così, di pancia, proprio per accentuare quante cose riesca a fare in modo ottimo. Giocato sin dal giorno uno della sua pubblicazione in Accesso Anticipato, la creatura di Chasing Carrots, team composto da cinque persone, è prontissimo per ritagliarsi una fetta del mercato importante e di creare, di conseguenza, un nuovo mito del genere roguelike. A renderlo incredibile è la totale personalizzazione anche nel game design stesso, come se fosse un videogioco nel videogioco che può essere affrontato come meglio si preferisce.

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8.3 / 10.0 - Wild Bastards
Sep 12, 2024

Wild Bastards is a roguelite first-person shooter that presents itself to players in a superb and very pleasant way, while not innovating the formula and perhaps not deepening the bonds between the main protagonists too significantly. However, this allows you to overcome strategic situations to have an approach that deals with situations brilliantly, composing teams that are always different... Unless someone, in short, is angry with someone else. Which happens. The game design is very pleasant and detailed, also enriched by a nice gunplay system. Recommended for those who love the West, popcorn and Tarantino.

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8 / 10.0 - Deathsprint 66
Sep 12, 2024

Pleasant, dense and detailed, Deathsprint 66 is a video game that knows how to run because it puts microtransactions before the real and tangible adventure towards the players. The first race happens through yourself, from start to finish, and makes it all the more enjoyable. The product allows you to be able to improve enormously as much as possible, then shaping everything else in each mode. However, you need a lot of skill, to know how to delight in a precise way.

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The production is a moving continuum full of synergies, as well as absolute beauty. Episode Aigis, exactly as it had done in the FES version, is the worthy, moving and touching conclusion of the third chapter of the franchise, which represented a great return and a fundamental experience to better understand the depth of Persona 3 Reload.

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8.7 / 10.0 - Gundam Breaker 4
Sep 6, 2024

Incredibly varied and immense, between various and eventual modes, Gundam Breaker 4 presents a well-implemented gameplay within it and a high and studied customization of the Mobile Suit. It's excellent how you can connect and implement different weapons to create the mecha par excellence. The story is not the real strength of the work and does not intend to be, preferring to focus everything and even more so on the game design. A choice that I really appreciated.

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9 / 10.0 - Core Keeper
Aug 26, 2024

Engaging and exciting, Core Keeper is a perfect example of development and creativity. In addition to keeping you completely glued to the screen, with 1.0 it dramatically increases the hours that someone could spend inside it, thus allowing the player passionate about video games of this caliber to lose track of time. The game design of the production is certainly the most alive and irrepressible part, as well as the world around the main character. In addition, I have given names to some animals within the production, which could please the colleagues of TGM.

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8.5 / 10.0 - Black Myth: Wukong
Aug 24, 2024

Black Myth: Wukong is a video game with a brilliant and well-composed combat system, full of facets and things to see. It could very well be a new yardstick for the action genre, even if the inexperience of the team in some respects, also due to the amount of bosses within it, leads to being less enthusiastic than usual. Game Science's video game is usual, really solid, much more than I would have expected. The future of the team, hoping it is far from controversy and aggressive behavior, is well marked.

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