Let The Stuffing Fly!
HIGH Tossing my gun thirty feet into the face of a bear riding a bomb.
LOW There’s just 15 levels and a boss.
WTF Every part of Franklin’s plan.
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This Is Not a Review – Ken Follett’s The Pillars of the Earth
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: Ken Follett’s The Pillars of the Earth, developed and published by Daedalic Entertainment.
Graceful Explosion Machine Review
Kaleidoscopic
High Blasting aliens with kaleidoscope explosions and chiptunes.
Low The game becomes too repetitive about halfway through.
WTF Wait… how did I just lose 2 hours to this?
Infinite Minigolf Review
A Stroke Above Par
HIGH The high-quality cartoonish backdrops.
LOW A slew of terrible user-generated levels on quickplay.
WTF Making players complete each difficulty mode sequentially.
Galaxy of Pen & Paper Review
Space…The Weekend Frontier
HIGH Depth in both mechanics and narrative…
LOW …But not enough to escape shallow first impressions.
WTF So they’re playing a tabletop RPG on a PC in the ’90s. How are they talking to each other?
Night Trap: 25th Anniversary Edition Review
Nostalgia Only Goes So Far
HIGH The secret ending.
LOW Missing the color-changing conversation five times in a row.
WTF Oh, there’s a mutilated corpse in this closet. Huh.
Digimon World: Next Order Review
Inside Every Computer Is A Deeply Silly World
HIGH Super-combining to wipe out a giant viking cat thing.
LOW Spending an hour trying to evolve an ice Digimon to complete a quest.
WTF So he went from being a set of floating gears to a fire-breathing dragon, huh?
Distrust Review
Emphasizing The Importance Of Coffee
HIGH Finding an adrenaline shot right as a teammate is about to die.
LOW Some occasionally unreliable pathfinding.
WTF How the hell do I use anomaly traps?
The Best Games of PAX West 2017
Another year, another PAX… West, to be specific! The show is now officially over and yours truly is in recovery mode after four long days on the floor. Here for your perusal are the top 15 notable games from the floor. Plus one!
Dream Daddy Review
Daddyshack
HIGH The Dad’s relationship with Amanda is heartwarming and authentic.
LOW The second date with “Fitness Dad” Craig outstays its welcome and is confusing to begin with.
WTF Fix that Garg!
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