Welcome To My Nightmare.
HIGH: Creates a surreal, frightening atmosphere through minimalist design.
LOW: Later chapters tend to drag on and throw off the pacing.
WTF: Did that monstrous infant call me "Papa"?
Neverending Nightmares Review
Tag: Self Published
The Vanishing Of Ethan Carter Review
Weird Tales Inspire a Wonderful Game
HIGH: Maintains a nearly constant atmosphere of fear and uncertainty.
LOW: Lengthy backtracking after completing a previously missed puzzle.
WTF: The summoning of the sea-thing Gnaiih.
Hellraid: The Escape Review
Escape this palette
HIGH Defeating an enemy by dying with it.
LOW The bizarre shooter segment halfway through.
WTF You guys do understand that an empty pot weighs just as much broken as it does intact, right?
Costume Quest 2 Review
All Treats, No Tricks
HIGH Has the same charm and wit of the first Costume Quest
LOW Controls for the PC version were not well-optimized
WTF The clown's face in battle.
Lovely Planet Review
Do it again
HIGH Bouncing along a chain of pads and nailing an enemy.
LOW Hearing a target ball launch and having no idea where it is.
WTF Occasionally the game plays a sound of people saying "Yay!" This never occurs after anything that should be celebrated.
Frozen Synapse Prime Review
Stay Frosty
HIGH Watching a perfectly-done replay is a thing of tactical beauty.
LOW Getting shot by a machine gunner from across the map and through two windows.
WTF My shapeform is waiting for the enemy and the AI still gets the drop on him?!?
Orbital Gear Review
Has No Pull
HIGH The gun that fires health-draining orbs.
LOW The complete lack of breadth.
WTF Not being able to find opponents means that I have an excuse to not play this.
Mind: Path to Thalamus Review
Keep the Picture, Lose the Thousand Words
HIGH The title sequence on the cliffside beach.
LOW The "final battle" against a ranting psychological entity.
WTF What exactly is the colossus doing when both its feet are lifted?
Wayward Manor Review
A Broken Home
HIGH: Neil Gaiman's few moments of dry, sardonic narration.
LOW: Watching yet another trap tool wasted because of a delayed response.
WTF: What unholy mutation produced a race of bug-eyed, cephalothoracic humans?
Velocity 2X Review
Do It Quickly
HIGH The second Glaive battle.
LOW Occasional putzing around when switching between two control schemes.
WTF Oh, her name is "Kai Tana"? Haaaaaaa.
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