Too Cute by Half
HIGH Flashes of brilliant design. Solid arcade-style training modes.
LOW Weapons are frustratingly underpowered. Progression is too grindy.
WTF Why can’t I preview the items I’m buying for my ship?
Ginga Force Review
Author: Steve Gillham
Roguebook Preview
One of the most difficult challenges as a game critic is finding the right set of words when something finds its voice through a collection of tiny revisions to existing genre conventions. Steady and competent genre work doesn’t leap off the page and excite a writer’s fingertips with the same intensity as Something New.
Pure Pool Review
Bank Shot
HIGH A refreshingly tactile presentation of action at the pool table.
LOW Sparse tutorialization, thin sound design, uninteresting career modes.
WTF Why aren’t players allowed to lag for the right to break first?
Iron Harvest Review
Days Of Futures Past
HIGH Brilliant illustrations, solid writing, great music.
LOW Poor AI/pathfinding, uneven balance, large armies are awkward to control.
WTF It’s 2020 – why are we still putting stealth missions into RTS games?
Darius Cozmic Collection Reivew
Space Oddity
HIGH Excellent emulation quality. Some great console rarities included.
LOW No supplemental material, no sound test mode.
WTF A Darius collection without Zuntata’s music front and center?!?
Brigandine: The Legend Of Runersia Review
War Stories
HIGH Fantastic turn-based action, surprising punches of solid writing.
LOW Simplistic strategic layer, cautious tactical AI, strategic UI is rough.
WTF The emperor of the Holy Gustava Empire is named…Tim Gustav?
Aeronautica Imperialis: Flight Command Preview
To convey a sense of Warhammer 40K‘s enormous impact on videogames, all I have to do is say the words “space marine”.
Neverwinter Nights: Enhanced Edition Review
Critical Fumble
HIGH Faithful rendering of D&D 3rd Ed. rules. Cross-play with PC.
LOW Technical issues, cumbersome controls, poor tutorial.
WTF Why not include the D&D3E Player’s Handbook?
Phoenix Point Review
The Forever War
HIGH Rich tactical gameplay, sharp writing, great tactical UI.
LOW Inconsistent pacing, numerous technical issues, simplistic AI.
WTF If alien captures are critical, why are non-lethal weapons so weak?
This Is Not A Review: Age Of Wonders – Planetfall – Revelations
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 dismissmal) 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: the Revelations DLC for Age of Wonders: Planetfall, developed by Triumph Studios and published by Paradox Interactive.
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