HIGH A great art style and intriguing fiction…
LOW …undone by an absurd amount of filler and unnecessary mechanical complication
WTF An elite military monster-hunting unit that ends up fighting in its skivvies a third of the time? Buy some armor, kids!
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.
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.
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!”
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?
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.
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?
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?!
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!
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…
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