High Excellent flow-state experience.
Low Badly-paced tutorials
WTF A grown man giving another grown man pocket money…
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.
HIGH Figuring out the first multi-floor puzzle on my own.
LOW Getting stuck overlooking a pattern.
WTF Why don’t all puzzle games offer a hint system like this?
HIGH When a last name reveals the villain.
LOW There are some incredibly cheap unexpected deaths.
WTF Is this whole game based on a cryptid meme?
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