…For Excellence
HIGH Hyperfast, hyperaggressive fighting in abundance.
LOW Stage 9 Nagoriyuki is a crime against humanity.
WTF The White House sure has some interesting quirks to its design.
Guilty Gear Strive Review
Tag: Fighting
Virtua Fighter 5 Ultimate Showdown Review
Ride The Tiger
HIGH One of the best fighting games ever, now with a modern online focus.
LOW Delay-based netcode instead of rollback can lead to some spotty matches.
WTF The retro character models sometimes don’t have their limbs attached correctly.
SNK Vs Capcom: The Match Of The Millennium Review
Valid In Any Given Millennium
HIGH This game is cute, concentrated nostalgia.
LOW Unlocking characters is a bit too random.
WTF I legitimately found myself trying to use Yuri’s moves while playing as Sakura.
Drunken Fist Review
Ad Nauseam
HIGH Entertaining for the first ten minutes.
LOW Severely diminishing returns after the first ten minutes.
WTF Laying puddles of urine as traps, only to slip on them.
Mortal Kombat 11 Ultimate Review
Almost Komplete
HIGH It’s another reason to dive back into MK11!
LOW Spawn. (Sorry, I’m just not a fan.)
WTF Rambo?
9 Monkeys Of Shaolin Review
Shaolin Monks Ain’t Nuthing Ta F’ Wit
HIGH A delightful homage to kung-fu films.
LOW It can get a bit repetitive at times.
WTF The music of the Wu-Tang Clan goes quite well with this game.
Uppers Review
Punches And Pantsu
HIGH It has a great sense of style.
LOW The framerate tanks this badly on a Vita port?
WTF ‘Chicken Constable Honetsuki Juju’.
Jump Force Deluxe Edition Review
Jojo’s Unremarkable Adventure
HIGH Kenshiro!
LOW Bland fighting, bland visuals, bland storytelling.
WTF The Linkin Park and Naruto mashup videos on YouTube back in 2007 are more interesting than this.
EA Sports UFC 4 Review
This Rookie’s Got Some Heart
HIGH Fighting is satisfying, as are choices in career mode.
LOW I swear I hit the right buttons!
WTF I’ve injured my training partner way too many times.
This Is Not A Review: Fight Crab
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: Fight Crab, developed by Calappa Games and published by Playism.
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