Keep it Simple (and Clean), Stupid
HIGH Huge amounts of content, all the most essential Kingdom Hearts material.
LOW Nothing that hasn’t been seen before.
WTF Needing three wikis and a Google doc just to keep track of the plot.
Author: Josh Tolentino
This Is Not A Review: Bot Colony
Welcome to This Is Not A Review. In these articles we discuss general impressions, ideas and thoughts on any given game, but as the title implies, it’s not a review. Instead, it’s an exercise in offering a quick recommendation (or dismissal) after spending enough time to grasp the ideas and gameplay of a thing without necessarily playing it from A to Z.
The subject of this installment: Bot Colony, developed and published by North Side and tested on PC.
Psychonauts In The Rhombus of Ruin Review
Brain Problems
HIGH Oozes creativity from every irreverent pore.
LOW Isn’t that much different from other VR “experiences”.
WTF “These shiny pages are mounting a heavy assault on my classified areas!”
Fate/Extella: The Umbral Star Review
The Heroic Spirit We Deserve
HIGH The fastest-moving Warriors-style game ever made
LOW It’s also one of the most repetitious
WTF Apparently every mythic figure of note was really a cute anime girl… Who knew?
This Is Not A Review: Perfect
Welcome to This Is Not A Review. In these articles we discuss general impressions, ideas and thoughts on any given game, but as the title implies, it’s not a review. Instead, it’s an exercise in offering a quick recommendation (or dismissal) after spending enough time to grasp the ideas and gameplay of a thing without necessarily playing it from A to Z.
The subject of this installment: Perfect, developed and published by nDreams and tested on PSVR.
Mount and Blade: Warband Review
Come see the violence inherent in the system!
HIGH Elegantly awkward combat in a deep open-world RPG.
LOW Too bad it looks like a PS2 game, though.
WTF When do I get to start my own Anarcho-Syndicalist Commune?
Hatsune Miku: Project Diva X Review
The Sharon Apple Cometh
HIGH Modern rhythm gaming at its challenging best (for those who can dig the music.)
LOW The anemic track list.
WTF Are you reading some of these lyrics?!
Dead Synchronicity: Tomorrow Comes Today Review
To Be… What?
HIGH A great art style and vivid, genuinely upsetting writing…
LOW …Dragged down by frustrations that adventure games should’ve grown past by now.
WTF There’s no ending!
Aragami Review
Mork of the Ninja
HIGH Old-school stealth with gorgeous modern art
LOW Old-school pacing issues/mission design with modern finicky controls/incoherence
WTF For a shadow ghost ninja, this guy runs awfully slowly…
Touhou: Scarlet Curiosity Review
Highly Receptive to Fan Service
HIGH Crisp combat and solid boss design
LOW An inscrutable story for all but the already-converted
WTF There are now more Touhou fan games published in English than core releases. What’s up with that?
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