Posts By John Cantees

Klonoa Phantasy Reverie Series Review – An Excellent Remaster

Klonoa Phantasy Reverie Series Review – An Excellent Remaster

Despite being light on extras, Klonoa Phantasy Reverie Series delivers lovingly tuned-up remasters that honor and improve the source material.

Arcadegeddon Review – Bright and Charming

Arcadegeddon Review – Bright and Charming

The finely-tuned combat and stylish execution make Arcadegeddon an undeniably good time despite it lacking the creativity to fully utilize its own themes.

DNF Duel Review – Simply Awesome

DNF Duel Review – Simply Awesome

DNF Duel threads the needle of approachable gameplay well while minimizing most of the downsides of its simplicity.

SpellForce 3 Reforced Review – Forcing it

SpellForce 3 Reforced Review – Forcing it

Reforced is a good looking, well optimized version of an exemplary RTS game from 2017 that mostly works on consoles despite some hitches along the way.

Dolmen Review – Soulless

Dolmen Review – Soulless

Dolmen squanders too many opportunities to be a unique experience and winds up as a merely passable recreation of a tried-and-tested formula.

Roller Champions Review – Losing Momentum

Roller Champions Review – Losing Momentum

Roller Champions’ commendable foundation delivers some good fun but loses steam far too quickly.

MultiVersus – Our 5 Biggest Takeaways from the Alpha

MultiVersus – Our 5 Biggest Takeaways from the Alpha

We have played the MultiVersus closed alpha, and we're thoroughly impressed so far.

Salt and Sacrifice Review – Been There, Done That

Salt and Sacrifice Review – Been There, Done That

Salt and Sacrifice mixes in a lot of standard RPG ideas with its interesting art style to deliver a worthy, if overly familiar experience to fans of challenging 2D action games.

Teardown Review – A Solid Foundation

Teardown Review – A Solid Foundation

Using real-time physics and problem solving proves to be a winning combination for teardown despite its bag of tricks being a little shallow.

The Serpent Rogue Review – Falling Short

The Serpent Rogue Review – Falling Short

The Serpent Rogue is a curious roguelike survival game with a few addicting elements on offer under its hazy exterior.

MotoGP 22 The Official Videogame Review – Wearing Out the Tread

MotoGP 22 The Official Videogame Review – Wearing Out the Tread

MotoGP 22 spends more time on subtle tweaks and playing the nostalgia card than meaningful evolution, resulting in not much more than a merely passable iteration.

Trek to Yomi – 5 Reasons To Be Excited

Trek to Yomi – 5 Reasons To Be Excited

Flying Wild Hog's upcoming samurai adventure has us excited for a number of reasons.

MLB The Show 22 Review – Taking the Hill

MLB The Show 22 Review – Taking the Hill

Finely-tuned tweaks and meaningful additions make this year’s The Show one of the best outings of the entire series.

Stranger of Paradise Final Fantasy Origin Review – Stranger Danger

Stranger of Paradise Final Fantasy Origin Review – Stranger Danger

This new flavor of Final Fantasy is mostly created with borrowed ideas, but still implements them well enough to be genuinely fun and addicting most of the time.

Tunic Review – Tried and True

Tunic Review – Tried and True

Tunic sticks to the rules of the retro-style RPG genre almost too well, but still manages to be one of the best examples of it in many years.

Assassin’s Creed Valhalla: Dawn of Ragnarök Review – A Worthy Expansion

Assassin’s Creed Valhalla: Dawn of Ragnarök Review – A Worthy Expansion

Dawn of Ragnarök introduces some neat ideas that are held back by long-standing 'Assassin’s Creed' issues.

Submerged: Hidden Depths Review – Spirited but Simple

Submerged: Hidden Depths Review – Spirited but Simple

The follow-up to Submerged reaps the rewards of its simplicity while also paying a price for it.

ELEX 2 Review – Not Much Going For It

ELEX 2 Review – Not Much Going For It

ELEX 2 elevates some of its predecessor’s ideas, but mostly just ends up delivering another buggy game that occasionally entertains.

GRID Legends Review – Steady at the Wheel

GRID Legends Review – Steady at the Wheel

GRID Legends might not blow your doors off, but it does tighten many of the core ideas from previous games while packing in a ton of content.

Sifu Review – Fists and Fury

Sifu Review – Fists and Fury

A challenging game that rewards far more than it frustrates.