HIGH The vibes and pacing are superb.
LOW Getting four cards away from finishing Impossible Solitaire and then failing.
WTF I mean, pretty much everything.
HIGH The vibes and pacing are superb.
LOW Getting four cards away from finishing Impossible Solitaire and then failing.
WTF I mean, pretty much everything.
High Excellent flow-state experience.
Low Badly-paced tutorials
WTF A grown man giving another grown man pocket money…
HIGH It’s an excellent 2D homage to the Souls series.
LOW The many, many platforming sections leading to an ambush.
WTF Wait, why is this boss suddenly here AGAIN?!
HIGH Integrating shooting mechanics into the gameplay is interesting.
LOW It gets the basics wrong, and its few fresh ideas are flawed.
WTF Releasing this game so close to the defining example of the genre!
HIGH Finding out how the combat was supposed to work.
LOW The melee combat.
WTF Dolmen is a crystal, by the way.
The friendly folks at EA Sports were kind enough to invite GameCritics to a closed beta of the hotly anticipated Madden NFL 23. Obviously, I jumped at the chance to spend a few hours with it, as this latest Madden is expected to represent actual forward progress into the current generation of consoles, and not just a cross-generation juke step.
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