Kotaku's Reviews
An unspectacular sidescroller that squanders its core idea.
A deep, absorbing prison sim that won't teach you anything about mass incarceration in America. Enough interlocking systems to keep your mind off the systemic inequities in our actual prison system. The campaign can be boring and the tutorials are inadequate. Escape mode is disappointing.
Outstanding combat. Plenty of familiar faces and foices. Camera has issues. Repetitive environments are repetitive. The game ends. The cloest gaming has come to a playable Generation One Transformers cartoon.
It's Rock Band for a new generation (of consoles). Same great taste as the previous games. Tour mode is the best single player experience in the series. Relatively bare bones compared to previous release. Initial song list too small to support tour mode.
Get to know your friends from Persona 4 even more intimately, and maybe dance along.
Refines and improves the things that made Destiny great while fixing things we didn't realize were broken.
Finally, a toys-to-life game with real toys and not glorified statues.
Laserlife is a feast for the eyes, ears and reflexes.
If sweating profusely and screaming into the void is your idea of fun, SOMA absolutely delivers.
More ways to have fun, fewer manufactured barriers to do so. Inventive game mechanics lead to some truly breahttaking levels. Driving and flying is a blast. Underwater vehicle levels are the worst.
A little rushed and a little clumsy, but ultimately well-intentioned and welcome.
Finally, I can make the hellscape Mario levels of my dreams.
Lovers in a Dangerous Spacetime's brand of fast-paced teamwork is the kind of thing that can make complete strangers feel like old war buddies after only a few minutes.
Metal Gear Solid V is the best Metal Gear yet, and has immediately become one of my favorite video games of the last few years. It's an impeccable stealth-action game, clearly inspired in all the right ways by modern series like Far Cry, and it's got a level of moment-to-moment joyfulness that kept me satisfied even when I was slogging through harder versions of levels I'd already beaten just to see the "true" ending.
An overlong, overstuffed adventure with some nice scenery and decent car combat.
Combines cool toys, a fun video game and a world of opportunities for creative little minds
Confused, inconsistent and technically poor, Devil's Third has some inventive ideas for multiplayer, but it suffers form the same flaws as its dreary campaign.
It's a smarter, more expressive take on the old Syndicate formula.
A delightfully absurd choose-your-own adventure horror game that encourages multiple playthroughs.
It's more Toy Soldiers, which is cool. So, by default, this is cool, too.