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1257 games reviewed
74.1 average score
80 median score
51.0% of games recommended

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bigbear51
May 5, 2023

Curse of Eternity is far from a fun game and it is most certainly far from being a good game. There’s very little when it comes to content and what little there is, is a bland ugly mess at best. It’s frustrating in all the wrong ways and boring in many other ways as well.

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With expectations checked, The End of YoRHa Edition still manages to impress by being a technical achievement. NieR: Automata was a game that struggled to run on much more powerful hardware and the fact that it can run as well as it does on Nintendo Switch is nothing short of a miracle.

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RPG fans who missed this on PlayStation 4 and already traded their console for a Nintendo Switch will likely get a lot of enjoyment from Ni no Kuni II: Revenant Kingdom Prince’s Edition. Young gamers especially will be enchanted by the whimsical setting and premise. The action style combat is also easy to pick up for eager kids who want to cut up some monsters.

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Mar 7, 2021

There was never any doubt that Anodyne 2: Return to Dust would look and run exactly as the designer intended on Xbox Series S. It feels very tight and responsive at all times; the 2D action sequences especially have no noticeable input lag.

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Unscored - Ion Fury
Jun 3, 2020

Despite it not being the best version, Ion Fury‘s greatness still shines on the Nintendo Switch. Hopefully some of its minor roughness gets ironed out to make it perfect. Good first person shooters on Switch are uncommon, and this one ranks high.

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Unscored - Ion Fury
Aug 31, 2019

From its graphics to the gameplay, Ion Fury is everything I wanted and more in a bite sized 90mb download. Ion Fury does not rely on nostalgia alone and instead takes the charm of classic FPS games and pushes the boundaries of what can be done, creating a new standard for retro games going forward.

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Jun 8, 2023

If the team behind The Lord of the Rings: Gollum manages to get it in an acceptable state, the foundation of this game is still hopelessly rotten at its core. No amount of polish can undo the miscalculated story and game design. Daedalic would effectively have to restart the entire development process and start over to salvage it.

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Sep 10, 2024

If you are considering picking up this game it is better to wait until it goes on sale than to buy it at full price. The game can be completed in 2 to 4 hours even with the bugs. Ultimately it is your choice if you want to pick it up or not.

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2 / 10.0 - Bloodhound
Jul 30, 2024

Bloodhound is such a massive failure that it gets nothing right. Everything a gamer looks for in a shooter is bungled and it creates new issues with its staggeringly bad design choices. Compounded with the technical failings that make it almost unplayable, there isn’t anything worthwhile here at all.

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2 / 10.0 - Pocket Fishing
Mar 12, 2024

It is a miracle that Pocket Fishing doesn’t let you wander off out of bounds, because it is the Big Rigs of fishing games. It has very little going for it at all and it thankfully didn’t corrupt my data. Sadly, Pocket Fishing does not crash often enough and you’ll be wishing it did for the excuse to not play it anymore.

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2 / 10.0 - In My Shadow
Dec 26, 2021

When doing our In My Shadow review, we found it’s the kind of indie game that is so poor it becomes interesting. The layers of incompetence compound on themselves to make something worth talking about and is dense with examples of what not to do when making a game. At times, it’s comical that something like In My Shadow can exist and cost more than some original Xbox games in the Xbox Store.

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Fingal Belmont
Oct 7, 2021

Probably the biggest and easiest missed opportunity to get players on board with some of the characters they know nothing about would have been to include a cartoon episode for each character. Instead there is nothing but still images. For $49.99 USD, this is a rip-off and is a wasteland of content. Maybe Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl will get better with updates, but it would take a miracle to salvage this pile of slime.

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2 / 10.0 - The Quiet Man
Nov 3, 2018

Overall, this is a weird game that shouldn't have been released. Even at around 15 dollars I feel ripped off. The plot is an incoherent mess and the combat is buggy and broken and worst of all, it's just not fun.

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Star Wars Battlefront Classic Collection deserved a full remaster or remake compared to the garbage that Aspyr put out. It is heartbreaking to see how little effort they put into bringing an experience worthy of the series to the modern era. The game’s controls are extremely stiff and you will have to battle aim assist on top of it. If you are looking for a fun trip down memory lane, just buy the games on Steam or when they are on sale.

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Fingal Belmont
3 / 10.0 - Paw Paw Destiny
Feb 8, 2025

The execution could not have been worse. Paw Paw Destiny is just too buggy and incoherent to play.

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Fingal Belmont
Jan 17, 2025

In its current state, you’ll be lucky to beat this game. There is no telling what causes some of the bugs. It feels random, but maybe during a full moon on Friday the 13th, DreadOut might not throw up all over itself. It could have been “so bad, it’s good”, but instead it’s “so bad, it’s unplayable”.

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Little Big Adventure: Twinsen’s Quest is borderline unplayable. The kinesthetics are dreadfully unpleasant and the rough state of the game can lead to some nasty bugs. The few areas of improvement are not worth enduring this sluggish mess. Gamers are better off playing the original.

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3 / 10.0 - Dustborn
Oct 4, 2024

Ultimately, Dustborn is an amazing tech demo. Red Thread Games could do amazing things if they took the mechanics of the game and applied it to something… ANYTHING else.

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Augusto A.
Jul 18, 2024

Noreya simply doesn’t do enough to differentiate itself from other Metroidvanias and ends up feeling like a bad imitation of the genre. The game has some good ideas, especially pertaining to the map changing depending on what deity you decide to align yourself with, but it’s too little when compared to all that it does badly.

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Augusto A.
Mar 12, 2024

Dungeons of Sundaria is a gracious attempt at repurposing assets from a previous unsuccessful endeavor, but the game’s mechanics and level design desperately need to be looked at, otherwise Industry Games will never achieve a successful multiplayer experience.

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