Matthew Pollesel

Ottawa

287 games reviewed
71.8 average score
75 median score
47.4% of games recommended
Jul 22, 2022

It feels as if the developers wanted to make a different, more interesting game, but couldn't figure out what they wanted to do with it, so instead they turned it into a sequel for a game that wasn't particularly good or memorable in the first place. You're left with the feeling that they didn't really care about Freddy Spaghetti 2 -- and really, neither should you.

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If you've never played the Jackbox Games before -- or even if you're just looking for a Greatest Hits version of the series -- the Jackbox Party Starter is the perfect introduction. The three games are completely different from each other, but taken together they show why the series has so many ardent fans.

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Matchpoint – Tennis Championships is great if you want tennis, and nothing but tennis. It'll give you ample opportunity to play match after match, and it never bogs you down in the extraneous nonsense that seems to plague most sports games. But if you want to do literally anything more than that, you might find your attention wavers long before you come close to finishing your career.

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Jul 18, 2022

Unless you really enjoy half-finished stories, Paratopic never really builds on its great aesthetic to be a game worth playing. It may aspire to bring you back to the late '90s, but given how disjointed it all feels, it never achieves its goal.

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Jul 15, 2022

If you're into simulating menial blue collar jobs, you could certainly do a lot worse than this.

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Jul 14, 2022

The real draw in Neon White is the action -- the pure, unfiltered, adrenaline-pumping action that feels like it brings together the best thing about games like Devil May Cry or Ghostrunner or Mirror's Edge or Sonic or whatever else you play when you want to go as fast as possible while slicing and shooting through every single enemy in your way. It's a pretty exceptional game, and it's unlike anything else out there.

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Jul 12, 2022

Sixty Words is a decent choice if you're a fan of word searches and you want something different. It won't take you more than a few hours to finish every puzzle, but during that time, it'll serve as a pleasant enough diversion.

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