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687 games reviewed
71.9 average score
70 median score
53.4% of games recommended

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Aug 6, 2024

I still haven’t accessed its true ending yet because you can only use one continue before your opportunity to get it goes away, but I might just keep playing Volgarr the Viking 2 until I do. Whether you’re a fan of difficult old-school 2D platformers or not, this is a modern take on a classic formula that anyone can get into with enough time and effort.

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Unscored - Cassette Beasts
Apr 26, 2023

Cassette Beasts does fall into some familiar pitfalls, making for a hit-and-miss adventure. Some might find its complexity appealing, but that comes at the expense of casual appeal and legibility. Still, I’m encouraged by how many of its original ideas land. Monster fusion is a truly impressive trick, exploration feels classic and modern in the same breath, and its cassette motif is a clever bit of theming that gives it a distinct style. Perhaps Game Freak should be the one taking notes this time.

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Sep 4, 2018

Changes to the core systems, meanwhile, take two steps forward and one step back. The game's long list of improvements is paired with the return for grinding for grinding's sake. Check back later this week for our final impressions.

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Battle for Azeroth is off to a weak start. The new zones are beautiful, to be sure, but the climatic introduction cinematic and quests lead into a whole lot of cliché and not a lot of action. If the War has come back to Warcraft, well …I've not seen it.

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Nov 30, 2020

Empire of Sin delivers a clever, genre-melding experience that perfectly marries the world of 1920s organized crime with strategy gameplay. Bugs and a lack of combat speed or automation options can grind its pace to a halt, but it does a stellar job of putting the player in the mindset of a mob mastermind (or a gun-toting buffoon) with streamlined speakeasy management.

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Perhaps it’s thematically fitting that the game itself is such an oddball outlier that’s been met with cruelty and misunderstanding since its announcement. There’s poetry to that, but it didn’t make my 11-hour playthrough any more enjoyable.

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Nov 7, 2022

While not outright broken like Sonic the Hedgehog (2006) or Sonic Boom, Sonic Frontiers is a heavily misguided game that muffles good ideas with questionable narrative, technical, and gameplay design decisions.

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Transformers: Rise of the Dark Spark is an insultingly overt cross-marketing bid that isn't worth your time.

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Feb 18, 2015

The Order: 1886 is a dull, plodding experience that's beautiful to behold but spends too little time giving players a reason to stick around.

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Jun 16, 2025

MindsEye is a baffling, busted shooter that squanders a campy sci-fi premise.

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Mar 25, 2024

South Park: Snow Day! brings the cartoon’s up-and-down foray into gaming full circle. The co-op adventure underwhelms with sloppy action, repetitive combat, and a poorly implemented roguelite structure. Fans of the show’s first few seasons may get some laughs from its throwback humor, but the fun setup gets flushed down the drain like Mr. Hankey.

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Mar 29, 2021

Balan Wonderworld is a hodge-podge of half-formed platforming ideas that squander a whole lot of charm.

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Nov 25, 2014

This spin-off is the unambitious median point in a triple-A market saturated with zombies and stealth-action games that have narrative aspirations.

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Stalker 2: Heart of Chornobyl crumbles under the weight of its own ambition.

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Jul 11, 2024

Anger Foot's one-note action gimmick can't find a second leg to stand on.

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Aug 9, 2023

Atlas Fallen has some ambitious ideas for a game of its scale, but its poor presentation holds back a promising combat system.

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Jun 28, 2023

AEW: Fight Forever will win over N64 nostalgists, but anyone looking for a modern wrestling experience may be let down by an unpolished, bare-bones package.

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May 3, 2023

Redfall makes concessions to work as a middling multiplayer game at the expense of a promising single-player experience.

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Oct 10, 2022

Valkyrie Elysium delivers an average action experience that fails to revive a classic RPG series.

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Sep 7, 2022

Steelrising has some lofty ambitions, but poor execution slays this potentially innovative Soulslike.

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