Better Late Than Never
HIGH Boarding the Kreon.
LOW The port’s difficulty is a bit askew.
WTF A trip through a tunnel ripped wholesale from Gears of War 2
Tag: Platinum Games
Nier: Automata Second Opinion
Simulation of Simulacra
HIGH Blowing away a whole squad of Forest Knights with a laser blast.
LOW The ubiquitous hacking is a lackluster twin-stick shooting exercise.
WTF The ending with the fish.
Nier: Automata Review
Robo-Emo-Repeat
HIGH 2B and 9S are likeable characters.
LOW The game is at least twice as long as it should be.
WTF Accidentally getting joke ending H.
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutants In Manhattan Review
Go back to the sewers
HIGH The disco dance party special attack.
LOW the never-ending second sewer level.
WTF What’s up with the turtles’ weird noses?
Transformers: Devastation Review
Transfabulous
HIGH Realizing it really looks as good as it does in trailers.
LOW Escaping from the plasma core.
WTF The Decepticons aren't playable in any mode?!?
Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance Review
The Return of the Ripper
HIGH A spectacular boss battle with a sai-wielding man made out of magnets.
LOW Finding out who the final boss is.
WTF I normally don't like heavy metal music, so why do I like this soundtrack so much?
Bayonetta Second Opinion
A Vapid Beauty
HIGH The dance number after the credits roll.
LOW The "story" is a bloated, empty mess of half-realized nonsense.
WTF Why is Jeanne glowing there?
Denpa, Bayonetta, Riptide and Monster Hunter 3 Ultimate merch!
I'm trying to make a serious effort towards trimming down my backlog this year, so I decided to give Bayonetta one more shot. I've started and quit the game twice before, but it comes up in conversation so often and in such positive terms that I'd feel like I wasn't doing my critical due diligence unless I gave it a least one more try.
Anarchy Reigns Review
Goes to 11? More like 14.
HIGH Sasha. Also, Sasha.
LOW Not realizing there was an elevator behind the tentacle.
WTF The "red eyes" are never sufficiently explained.
Vanquish Third Opinion
If this Combat had a Taste, it would be Quite Delicious
HIGH: Exploding an enemy with their own projectile as it launches in glorious slow motion.
LOW: The unskippable first-person interactive cut-scenes bring the pacing to a halt.
WTF: Why is Sam's visor set at his mouth when he exposes his entire face to smoke?
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