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An almost perfect little horror game that is tightly designed, based on a fantastic premise that is realised almost to its fullest and runs well with great audio and visuals. Good!
I really hope that Roadwarden on other platforms doesn’t have the issues that plague these Switch ports, and if they don’t – this is a cracking game that I would highly recommend. As it stands through, I have to review my experience, and Roadwarden on the Switch or Switch 2 is a janky mess, sadly.
Disco Simulator is very neat little game that runs extremely well with without flashiness. It doesn’t bog you down in the more tedious aspects of managing a night club, but for some – that balance may swing the wrong way. If you are a personal that likes to get your head in micromanaging individual spreadsheet breakdown in forensic detail Disco Simulator won’t be for you, but if you want an approachable simulator with fun – instead of a calculator – at its heart, then dive in and get jiving!
I had a lot of fun with Crisol: Theatre of Idols, I played for 12 hours and enjoyed every second of it, it does a good job adding little tweaks and quirks to established horror formula. Combat may be the thing that some people don’t find as satisfying as it can be, but I enjoyed it enough to highly recommend this title. I don’t usually talk about price, but for what Crisol: Theatre of Idols is currently priced at - you get a lot of bang for your buck.
Nobody out there is doing it quite like SUDA 51, and with a game industry coalescing into a bland soup of dull titles aimed at everyone that please nobody. I’m just glad he’s still out there doing his thing, and that someone is giving him the money to do so. As far as I’m concerned, playing Romeo is a Dead Man makes you cool. It’s nowhere near perfect, but it’s unlike pretty much anything else out there. And you want to be cool, right? Right? Yeah, you do.
As it stands, Gear Club Unlimited 3 is a fun, if slightly bland racing game that lacks character but has great fundamentals. Eden Games have almost twenty racing games under their belt released over the almost thirty year period of their existence and it would have been really cool for Gear Club Unlimited 3 to have a little something to make it stand out from the crowd with all of this studio experience. Again, I applaud that it’s a pretty straight racer available for all ages of gamer, but as much as I enjoyed the racing, I was constantly hoping for a little more from the game for it to really, fully engage me.
As it is, Lets Journey is a basic title that’s fun for up to an hour, but anything beyond that feels almost like grinding work, sadly.
As much as I enjoyed my time with Carmageddon Rogue Shift and I applaud the decision to streamline the formula – the lack of any sort of multiplayer is a real shame, and also, whilst Max Damage’s iconic car is a main feature, the lack of a goofy parade of the previous characters and cars in this new, more grim-faced iteration does strip the game of a lot of its historical identity, feeling a little generic ‘blood ‘n metal’ with a lack of humour in the game. That said, it all boils down to a very playable single player experience, with all the heft and weight you’d expect from a racing game in this genre, which I’m completely on board with.
Taxi Chaos 2 is a solid game that has shaken off a lot of the issues that plagued the first game, but some still hang on. Great visuals, controls, and perfectly fine for quick blasts of arcade action, it’s a recommendation for fans – and I know there are many – of Crazy Taxi-esque games. That said, as much of a pleasure it is to see the strides this sequel has taken, in a couple of years I’d love to be covering Taxi Chaos 3 and awarding it a 9/10 as there really is some magic under the bonnet of this franchise and plenty of gas left in the tank!
For me, everything about Static Dread: The Lighthouse works and it is exactly what I want out of this type of experience. It won’t be the scariest title you play this year, but the atmosphere and dread that washes over you is much more of a thrill than a lot of horror games give you. The gameplay loop - which I doubted at first - soon grew to be a highlight, I simply can’t recommend Static Dread: The Lighthouse enough, and it is now my favourite game that uses the theme of Lovecraftian horror.
Although it lacks polish at times, I enjoyed my time spent shooting and staking vampires to my heart’s content, it has drawbacks but overall it took me a few hours to complete and I had fun throughout, it may not stay too long in the memory, but while playing I was entertained.
Wreckreation is a game with huge ideas that didn’t just not quite have the budget to realise them, it pulls itself in too many directions from the off, and that results in a title that feels empty and desolate and as harsh as it is to say, I think this is beyond patching up, I think it’s too far gone in the wrong directions to save at all.
Mafia 4 is a game that excels in its presentation, atmosphere, and narrative, whilst having some solid combat, but you spend far too much of the game working your way through stealth and vehicular sections that feel archaic in their execution, tied to out-of-action segments that are crushingly pedestrian. This may be a beautiful wine for some, but it’s not the vintage for me. 🍷
The definitive way to enjoy Monolith Software’s classic, hopefully this will get a lot of folks into a game that I spent a lot of my teenage years enjoying. I can’t imagine that Blood 2: The Chosen will get the same treatment and quite frankly, that’s absolutely fine, because it is – as the Aztecs used to say, “Not very good”.
Neon Inferno is a title that brings back a niche genre that very much appeals to me, and the beautiful blend of pixel art with more modern graphic sensibilities, and a truly pulse-pounding soundtrack means that it’s a game that pops off the screen. Mid-level bonuses and weapon drops would have a been cool to see, but the personality of each stage and the sheer pace of everything will keep you glued to the screen throughout as you learn patterns and fend off hundreds of foes. A very cool title that deserves to be inhaled by the classic action lovers out there.
All in all, if you are a fan of the basics of the series, this is very much more of the same with a few tweaks. The music may click with a lot of folks, and perhaps there are some that will relish the sheer amount of items and loadouts that you can wangle, but whilst there are thousand of weapons and a huge open world to explore, I can’t help but feel that this is quantity over quality in some areas.
I think that this game will be one that fans of the original will adore – it’s always fantastic to see POV-only games from the ‘90s/00’s available on console, and Nightdive are the best at what they do – but the sheer design philosophies that run through the game from the original development will be a tough sell to modern audiences that aren’t familiar with the game, and I can imagine that it’s a bit of a hard sell. Whilst there’s online multiplayer, it would have been cool to see local multiplayer included here but overall, I’m just over the moon that Outlaws is finally available to play on console, as it’s a bit of a forgotten title that has a very unique personality that still shines through today, there’s nothing quite like it out there.
Marvel Cosmic Invasion isn’t a reinvention of the genre, nor does it need to be. It’s a fun, flashy, tightly built slice of superhero mayhem short, punchy, and occasionally a little shallow, but always enjoyable. It's perfect for anyone who still gets excited by the thought of shouting “Avengers, assemble!” while button mashing A.I.M. bots and aliens into dust.
Lumines Arise is an incredible game played on any size screen, whether on a 70-inch OLED TV or a handheld. But it shines like a diamond in VR, and I feel privileged that I have the equipment to experience it at its best. It’s one of my games of the year, a title I’ll buy on multiple platforms, and will be a permanent install on any device I own that can run it.
After playing Dark Quest 3, it did take me a few minutes to adjust to the slightly different approach that this sequel takes, but the multiplayer and custom dungeon builder included means that those that click with this game will have a lot of bang for their buck, and the fact that its such a classic interpretation means that you can get rolling within a minute or two, what are you waiting for? Get out there and defeat the Dark Wizard!