Many Highs. One Big Lo.
HIGH Hilarious, breakneck gameplay that continually offers new variety.
LOW Player models pale in comparison to the effects and environments.
WTF Lo Wang begins to get a little grating by the ten-hour mark.
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Conarium Review
You Don’t Want to Know What the Third Eye Saw
HIGH Shoggoth chase!
LOW The developers completely failing to flag something crucial, costing me an hour of backtracking.
WTF Why is smashing walls so satisfying?
Yonder: The Cloud Catcher Chronicles Review
Made For Little Hands
HIGH Getting something so bright and friendly for kids is fantastic.
LOW The trading economy should be simpler.
WTF How did they make all the animals so adorable???
Impact Winter Review
If The Cold Doesn’t Get You…
HIGH Figuring out my rifle and executing that damn wolf.
LOW Having to restart after three in-game days because the food system wasn’t well-explained.
WTF Dear Main Character: Please put on pants. It’s freezing out there.
The Franz Kafka Videogame Review
Beautifully Absurd, Irrationally Frustrating
HIGH A folksy art style that encourages progress.
LOW Random puzzles that encourage quitting.
WTF Honestly, just about every scene transition in the game.
Thimbleweed Park Review
It Wasn’t Really Like This
HIGH Finally telling off Xavier.
LOW The puzzle to move the truck.
WTF Why, exactly, is there an occult altar on the top floor of this hotel?
Cryptark Review
Rogues… In… Spaaaaaaaace….
HIGH Wiping the Cryptark out by firing my super-weapon over and over…
LOW …after having the game crash the first time I tried to do that.
WTF Enemies can fly through walls now? That seems fair.
The Golf Club 2 Review
A Diamond In Some Deep Rough
HIGH A limitless amount of user-generated content, a very reasonable price point.
LOW Extremely steep learning curve for those accustomed to EA’s golf titles.
WTF Unforgivable graphical stutter on backswings that turns drives into crashes.
Beholder: Blissful Sleep Review
Mehr Leben Der Anderen
HIGH Finally catching that damn housewife leaving her apartment.
LOW The bizarre lack of urgency in Hector’s plight.
WTF The English translation, once again.
MLB The Show 17 Review
Something Old, Something New
HIGH Basking in the beautiful and surprisingly alive stadiums.
LOW The feeling you’ve done this before. Many times.
WTF Baserunning is still a disaster.
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