JimTheSchoolGirl
2010
One Christmas holiday I played this to 100% in a single 14-hour sitting.
If you can ignore the cutscenes and the fiddly pointer bits and the crap sound design and the infuriatingly arbitrary upgrade system and the linearity, you might just find that what's left is an action adventure game that plays great.
If you can ignore the cutscenes and the fiddly pointer bits and the crap sound design and the infuriatingly arbitrary upgrade system and the linearity, you might just find that what's left is an action adventure game that plays great.
1990
This is good, honest. A single-screen puzzle platformer about a catboy who pushes boxes and punches ghosts. Also you can travel back and forth in time. Recommended!
1990
This is GameBoy, to me. Simplicity. A pleasant nostalgia trip. Looks rad in colour mode too.
2002
Somehow both less and more frustrating than I remember.
2023
Genuinely got no complaints, I mean it's Dead Space, it's fuckin great, but I've already got a perfectly good version of it that takes up way less space on my little Series S.
Really into how it looks and sounds, but the writing has aged badly (amirite) and it's just dead tedious.
Got to a boss battle which felt like an achingly slow and poorly-calibrated rhythm game, after a few false starts I got the hang of it only to be hit with an instakill move right at the end. If you're going to make me replay a fight, at least design it to be fun FFS.
Oh and it told me to "keep calm and carry on" AND I'm pretty sure there was a bear doing a Ricky Gervais impression. Bin.
Got to a boss battle which felt like an achingly slow and poorly-calibrated rhythm game, after a few false starts I got the hang of it only to be hit with an instakill move right at the end. If you're going to make me replay a fight, at least design it to be fun FFS.
Oh and it told me to "keep calm and carry on" AND I'm pretty sure there was a bear doing a Ricky Gervais impression. Bin.
1997
Like someone played OG Doom a bunch as a kid, but instead of becoming uber popular it just vanished into obscurity, and they had to recreate it from hazy memory. They did pretty good! It's creepy and baffling and mean and fast.
WTF was up with that end credits music
2019
The menu music is better than anything in Tetris Effect, plus there's a Kirby theme
2014
Just didn't click at all, clunky and irritating. I've got a headache, maybe that didn't help.
2013
WAVES!
TBD
why are mobile games like this
2005
intensely digitised guitars
Tedious card deck tabletop wargame with a clipart PoP skin
2009
Accidentally started an AI v AI game, couldn't really tell what was happening