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19 years in the making, Rune II comes as a massive disappointment to fans of the original.
2K's latest grappler is a largely miserable experience that even the most diehard wrestling fans shouldn't think twice about passing up.
Devil's Hunt has a poor plot and characters, but it's pretty and playable.
Bus Simulator 18 is a buggy, disappointing mess with only its driving mechanics serving as a mild saving grace.
Better to go AWOL than hop behind the wheel of this bland tank shooter.
Renzo Racer leaves a lot to be desired, with a multitude of issues covering everything from physics glitches through to the core racing gameplay.
Mundane exploration mars the experience of Silver Chains, a haunted-house horror game which compromises a decent narrative with frustrating gameplay.
Lackluster enhancements do little to improve an already polarizing adventure
Even though it combines two genres, Hell Warders is as painfully generic as it gets.
The new PlayStation 4 exclusive third-person adventure Vane is broken, ploddingly slow, and completely confused about what it's trying to do.
The spiritual successor to Ultima had good intentions, but that may be the only good thing about it.
The Quiet Man cannot translate its ambition into a cohesive and fulfilling experience, finding trouble both from a gameplay and thematic perspective.
Hypergun tries to mix roguelite FPS gameplay, snarky humor, and a thumping electro soundtrack, but manages to catastrophically misfire on 2 out of 3.
Rise & Shine is a parody video game that fails to do anything original.
Rumble Club feels like a natural evolution of streamer-oriented games, with quick matches, inoffensive styling, and no real skill requirement. Everything that makes it go down easy has the side effect of making it uninteresting, sadly, and its lack of distinct appeal is compounded by a number of sticking points that become apparent all too quickly. There's no reason that Rumble Club won't work within its intended context, but for anyone seeking it out with the expectation of a memorable experience, there are far better places to look.
Star Wars Battlefront Classic Collection is the latest addition to Aspyr's lineup of remastered classics, but nostalgia may be all it has to offer.
It's hard to determine exactly who Snow Day is meant to be for. The ideal player of South Park: Snow Day has three other friends who are extremely into South Park, to the point of enjoying anything with the character's faces painted on it, and those three friends also enjoy battling waves upon waves of unintelligent NPC fodder with single button mashes while occasionally pressing one of two other buttons to execute an ability. These four friends should also laugh hilariously at the idea of a Taylor Swift album fetching "nearly half a roll" on the toilet paper black market - honestly, if that one joke doesn't snag you, it's all downhill from there.
It's everything surrounding those battles and skirmishes that makes Skull and Bones a harder sell. The simulation aspects are limited and under-baked, the questing is almost always tedious, and there are only a few main ship models to work with. Lacking the ability to dock and explore, ocean exploration feels perfunctory and artificially hampered. Better ship customization options open up eventually, and it’s initially interesting to tinker with armaments, but it’s hard not to want even more of the best boat blueprints, more gear, more detailed inclusions that would make these vessels feel authored and unique, something to elevate the vacant core routines. Skull and Bones could have been a welcoming and rare new beacon for pirate game fans but, even with seasons of promised premium content yet to come, this boat is visibly sinking.
Even those who enjoyed the show, but never played the original game, may have trouble immersing themselves in Gargoyles Remastered. Many of the changes made in Gargoyles Remastered are simply that - changes - and not necessarily improvements, leading to an overall disappointment for the potential this could have had.
Overall, EA Sports FC 24 on Switch still feels behind the game on other platforms. For players who have another platform available, the Switch version is definitely to be avoided, but for those who specifically want to play this soccer sim on the go, it's still likely the best option available right now. As such, it might be just escaping relegation in comparison to its predecessors, but EA Sports still owes more to Switch players than what this delivers.