HIGH Delivers classic wrestling with intriguing updates.
LOW The AI struggles. Special match types are uneven.
WTF Why is there a QTE to complete a ladder match when on top of the ladder?
Author: Steve Gillham
Roguebook Review
Monstrous Manual
HIGH Mechanically satisfying. Surprisingly evocative art and character design.
LOW The premise is thin. The quality of unlockable cards per character is uneven.
WTF Who do we need to bribe to get a daily challenge mode?
War In The East 2 Review
Back In The U.S.S.R.
HIGH A richly detailed operational WW2 strategy that plays smoothly for wargame vets.
LOW The lack of handholding can be overwhelming for newcomers.
WTF Why are the aerial operations so fussy if the AI automation is turned off?
Interview With Glen Pawley On Star Dynasties
When it comes to sci-fi settings that stretch beyond the stars, it feels like the stories too often land on a spectrum between Star Trek’s pristine bureaucracy of benevolent space colonialism and the mythopoetic swashbuckling of benevolent space colonialism in Star Wars. Star Dynasties, the latest grand strategy from Iceberg Interactive and Pawley Games, tries to have it both ways by using a galaxy-shaping disaster as the excuse to dive headfirst into the administrivia of intergalactic feudalism, texturing its space colonialism with a tangled web of shadows and political intrigue.
Ginga Force Review
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?
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?
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