Video Game Reviews
The DioField Chronicle Review – Intriguing Potential, Sloppy Execution
The DioField Chronicle deserves praise for some of its fresh ideas, but it's got more than a few issues that drag down the experience.
Session: Skate Sim Review – Middling Experience
Lackluster story mode and bland visual presentation drags down the experience offered by Session: Skate Sim.
Serial Cleaners Review – Feel the 90s
Quite a few games let us play as badass killers. Serial Cleaners, however, wants to give us a glimpse of the life of the people who have to clean up the mess left behind by these killers.
Shovel Knight Dig Review – The Shovel isn’t Just for Show Anymore
Shovel Knight is almost an entire decade old, but Yacht Club Games keeps figuring out new ways to play the game. How well does its latest attempt do at capturing the classic Shovel Knight feeling?
Return to Monkey Island Review – Quest for Booty
Rated arrr.
Deathloop Review (Xbox Series X) – The Not-Quite Golden Land
Arkane Studios' shooter is finally available on Xbox Series consoles with a large new update, but it's still very much the same middling experience.
The Legend of Heroes: Trails from Zero Review (PC) – A Light Illuminating The Depths
The Crossbell saga finally comes West after almost 12 years since its original launch. If you're a fan of the series, it's a must-have title.
Soulstice Review – A Tale of Two Sisters
Soulstice has some shortcomings but it manages to deliver a great action game.
SBK 22 Review – Defying Physics
This series’ return comes as a mixed bag.
NBA 2K23 Review – Technical Foul
NBA 2K23 is a perfectly solid basketball game that drops the ball with too much emphasis on microtransactions and poorly-thought out design in its main mode.
Splatoon 3 Review – Stay Fresh
Splatoon 3 is simultaneously brilliant and frustrating.
Biomutant PS5 Review – Largely the Same
Biomutant’s PS5 boost gives it a nice sheen but can’t help its mediocrity in other areas.
Metal: Hellsinger Review – An Easy Recommendation
Metal: Hellsinger is a new rhythm-based first-person shooter that tries to basically make a game out of heavy metal album art. How well does it manage this feat?
LEGO Brawls Review – Nothing Of Note
An ultra-thin gameplay loop, stingy progression systems, and little variety during gameplay makes LEGO Brawls a shallow package.
JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure All-Star Battle R Review – Flawed but Fun
JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure All-Star Battle R polishes up the original game well, but fails to modernize its online functionality.
Steelrising Review – Woman of Steel
Spiders' latest action RPG is a dedicated tribute to Bloodborne and its like, and a solid one at that.
F1 Manager 2022 Review – Somehow It Manages
F1 Manager is a nice collection of elements that most manager sim fans would want, but rarely feels like more than the sum of those parts.
The Last of Us Part 1 Review – Faithful to the Core
The Last of Us Part 1 doesn’t take many risks and ends up being an excellent but ultimately conservative remake.
Scathe Review – Weaker than the Sum of its Parts
Scathe is a fast-paced first-person shooter that’s trying to be many things at once: a boomer shooter, a bullet hell, and even a sort of roguelite. How well can it actually manage to fit all of thes...
Pac-Man World Re-PAC Review – Sticks to the Script
A simple but effective remake.
SD Gundam Battle Alliance Review – Mecha Hunter
A celebration of the Gundam property that welcomes newcomers with equal vigor.
Destroy All Humans! 2 – Reprobed Review – Probe-lem Solving
Reprobed’s performance stumbles often, sometimes weighing down an otherwise smartly-modernized version of a classic game.
Madden NFL 23 Review – A Little Maddening
Madden NFL 23 continues its long history of incremental improvements that don’t quite keep up with its audience while simultaneously giving us glimpses of how great it could really be.
Saints Row Review – Appetite For Destruction
The Saints Row reboot doesn't rewrite the franchise's playbook, but that doesn't detract from the fact that it is a fun-filled playground of carnage and destruction.
Midnight Fight Express Review – Brawling on a Budget
Midnight Fight Express takes a cool look, great music, and fluid combat to the next level in one of this year's best beat-em-ups.
Soul Hackers 2 Review – Demon Slayer
Soul Hackers 2 has a few stumbles holding it back from true greatness, but it's still a very good JRPG that is worth playing for fans of the genre.
Rollerdrome Review – Bloody Derby
Roll7's skating/arena shooter is stylish and vibrant while providing enough challenges for those who can groove with its gameplay loop.
Thymesia Review – Plagueborne
Thymesia is a new indie Souls-like where the inspirations aren’t slow and methodical like Dark Souls, but rather fast and reflex-intensive like Bloodborne.
Rumbleverse Review – Royale Rumble
Rumbleverse’s decent combat does very little to differentiate itself in one of gaming’s most crowded genres.
GigaBash Review – One-Trick Pony
While GigaBash ends up being a one-trick pony on account of its many shortcomings in the content department, that cannot detract from the otherwise solid gameplay.