VGChartz's Reviews
Provocative and entertaining, American Arcadia's high-concept premise, inventive storytelling, and creative gameplay scenarios place it alongside its closest inspirations.
A Pirate's Fortune rests between two strange polarities: stretching Outlaws' flawed mechanics to their furthest extent while nonsensically resetting its previous narrative goals.
No matter how you experience Capcom Fighting Collection 2 — online or offline, in single-player bouts against CPU opponents, or in versus mode against human rivals — you're likely to have a good time.
Bendy and the Ink Machine succeeds in capturing a specific personality and aesthetic, but falters in its gameplay craftsmanship.
Going into Deliver At All Costs, you would understandably assume it was mostly about driving, destruction, and Grand Theft Auto-esque high jinks. And for its opening hours — its best hours — it is. But the game quietly and gradually moves away from open-world mayhem toward a more focused, intimate narrative adventure, gaining emotional heft but losing some ingenuity and player freedom in the process.
Infuse Studio has a better grasp on incorporating storytelling & tone, but everything goes south once its worst open world impulses get in the way.
Apropos its soccer-themed subject matter, Despelote pulls off an impressive hat trick: successfully fusing unique aesthetic, narrative, & mechanical decisions with an assured vision.
For a narrative-driven game about the virtue of coexistence, it's a shame that's rarely felt emotionally or mechanically.
Between gameplay tempo, aesthetic, & characters, FragPunk's inherent chaos sets it apart from other hero shooters, but the cards aren't always in its favor.
Death end re;Quest Code Z marks a stunning comeback for Compile Heart and is a treat for fans of the first game.
While Storm in a Teacup's about-face from mechanical simplicity is audacious, Steel Seed is something I'm more compelled to admire than recommend.
Last Defense Academy has a lot of disparate parts working simultaneously, but it never creates any sort of disharmony. If anything, the visual novel, turn-based strategy, resource collection, and relationship management aspects complement and reinforce each other, creating a product far greater than the sum of its parts.
With so few positives across both tapes, Bloom & Rage easily ranks as one of DON'T NOD's worst albums.
Still replete with Metroidvania elements and satire, this sequel offers more of everything from the original.
Though still capable of fun co-op experiences, Monaco 2 is the perfect example to remind us that bigger doesn't always mean better - sometimes it just means busier.
Débutant developer Sandfall Interactive mixes French culture with elements from Persona and Dark Souls, and the results are incroyable.
In the end, South of Midnight's dividing line is the contrast between its artistically-inspired choices and pre-packaged gameplay.
How ironic that Behind the Broken Mirror's most impressive accomplishment is shattering my subterranean expectations.
Shadows shines brightly in terms of presentation, as well as some combat and progression elements, but overall feels like a “jack of all trades” and a Samurai master of none.
All the things that made the game special in 2015 — extraordinary world-building, impossibly deep role-playing systems, an obscene amount of content, and a unique gameplay loop that at times straddles the line between RPG and MMO — are present here, along with new story elements, mechanics, and quality-of-life updates.