Game Reviews5.8/10
Game & Wario Review: 16 Minigames, One GamePad, Too Many Fits and Starts
A strange collection of sixteen minigames, each a singular world unto itself, yet the whole never quite coheres.
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Category: Game Reviews
Every game we have scored, from the NES library to current releases.
Game Reviews5.5/10
Mario Party: Island Tour Review — Seven Boards, Eighty Minigames, No Online
A review of Mario Party: Island Tour, a portable party game with many boards and minigames, praised for its variety but criticized for lacking online play.
Game Reviews5.1/10
Driv3r Review: Tanner’s World Is Too Big for Its Own Story
A game of three cities and many cars, yet its mission and combat fail to earn the ambition of its wandering freedom.
Game Reviews5.1/10
Risen 3 Review: Lost Soul, Stolen Thunder — A Compelling Premise, Uneven Execution
A Nameless Hero's soul is stolen by the Shadow Lord, and a quest begins across a broken world of ruins and shadow.
Game Reviews5.6/10
Dynasty Warriors: Gundam 2 Review — Solid, but Never Great
A tale of a hack-and-slash war between mighty mobile suits, wherein Psycho Gundam and titanic foes clash amid vast battlefields.
Game Reviews5.4/10
Inversion’s Grappler Hook Outshines Its Thin Campaign
A city rent by inverted gravity, wherein a grappling hook bears a tale of loss and resistance, though the shooter beneath it fails.
Game Reviews5.4/10
Twelve Years On, I Am Bread Still Makes Bread Comedy Work
A slice of bread seeks the toaster in a puzzle game of hazards and comedy, reviewed herein.
Game Reviews5.5/10
Kinect Star Wars Review: Full-Body Motion Is the Idea, Not the Execution
A review of Kinect Star Wars, a game of lightsaber swings, podracing, and dancing with Star Wars heroes, weighed against its flaws.
Game Reviews5.2/10
The Deer God Review: Pixel Art Brilliance Buried Under Punishing Bugs
A deer, a hunter, and a God who punishes sin: this curious game rewards patience and punishes recklessness alike.
Game Reviews6/10
Ten Years On, Lost Sea Still Delivers the One Portal Adventure That Holds Up
A wanderer scours the perilous islands of the Lost Sea for tablets that may yet guide him home, though the path grows ever uncertain.
Game Reviews5.4/10
Diabolical Pitch Review: Spectacle Over Baseball
A game wherein a glove becomes a controller, and spectacle overtakes the very sport itself.
Game Reviews5/10
Koi Review: A Beautiful Recovery That Never Quite Finds Its Pace
A koi carp loses its memory and must recover it, piece by fragment, in this quiet, melancholy game of pond and reflection.