Frustrating gameplay and garish visuals make this game an unfortunate disappointment. [Issue#333, p.76]

A charming license is stretched over a vapid RPG to ill effect. The fans, and the show, deserve better. [Issue#333, p.69]

Frustrating stealth sections, uninspired puzzling, and dull action make Agony gaming hell. [Aug 2018, p.73]

A well-presented game, but exploring shows it's more dilapidated cabin than ominous mansion. [July 2018, p.65]

Despite its original premise, it ultimately brings nothing new to the already long overmined RPG parody genre beyond a pretty uninteresting twist on combat. [June 2018, p.84]

As it stands, it's a beautiful but wasted opportunity. [March 2018, p.81]

Really, it's hard to recommend this game, period. To see two rich, generous Kirby offerings on 3DS followed by something so stingy and lacking in imagination is depressing. [Christmas 2017, p.81]

Baffling. [Nov 2017, p.81]

We applaud the idea, but despair at the delivery. Not enough bump in the night, too much bump into stuff. [Aug 2017, p.81]

Other [puzzlers], unfortunately, rely on easily-missed collectibles or suffer from a lack of explanation. Combine all this with terrible acting(not helped by the script), technical flaws (including a consistently awful frame rate and occasional clipping), and a boring script, and you'll find that Syberia 3 leaves you cold. [July 2017, p.83]

Superstars didn't just drop the ball, it falls over, face first, into a steaming pile of horse dung. Avoid. [May 2017, p.69]

Like many of our in-game throwing knives, this one missed the target. [Feb 2017, p.83]

An arcade racer that has driven miles away from the arcades, replacing fun with tedious management. [Feb 2017, p.77]

Further proof that games and movies should just stay the hell away from each other. [Dec 2016, p.83]

A visually appealing world, but TTC fails to give any meaningful reason to want to spend time there. [Nov 2016, p.79]

A game full of ideas, but devoid of life. You're much better off sticking with the anime show. [Nov 2016, p.67]

One of Telltale's weakest opening chapters yet. [Issue#179]

Like England's current squad this is woeful, broken, and actually depressing. [Sept 2016, p.85]

A lacklustre offering in a long-running series of great games. A huge shame. [Sept 2016, p.80]

A compelling zombie concept thoroughly ruined by frighteningly horrid execution. [Sept 2016, p.74]

A muddled shooter where a lack of braaains and finesse derail any brief undead thrills. [Sept 2016, p.73]

A bland and uninteresting cash-in that's being peddled at a downright scary price point. [Sept 2016, p.70]

Repetitive, buggy, and hamstrung by underbaked design, Shadwen feels like an unfinished product. [July 2016, p.79]

A mildly rubbish shooter. [March 2016, p.80]

Too simple for grown-ups, yet full of 'humour' unsuitable for kids, this franchise resurrection finds itself stuck in a saccharine no man's land. [Feb 2016, p.87]

To see such frustrating limitations enforced upon what could have been a defiantly meaty JRPG world is a deal-breaking shame. [Jan 2016, p.81]

A great idea that's thoroughly undone by leaden platforming and cut-and-paste puzzles. [Jan 2016, p.76]

Abysmal. [Jan 2016, p.71]

A disgrace. When double jumps aren't the worst part, something's gone terribly wrong. [Dec 2015, p.78]

An absolute disaster of a videogame, on every conceivable level - it's a taint on the Nintendo name. [Oct 2015, p.78]

Shallow scraps and a painful pace suck the fun out of what should have been a grand monster mash. [Sept 2015, p.69]

What's meant to be the ultimate cruise from hell is exactly that - but for all the wrong reasons. [Summer 2015, p.76]

An interesting idea lacking the interaction or writing to make it anything other than a labour to get through. [Summer 2015, p.69]

The sense of goodwill you'll take into this Ico-aping adventure peters out pretty much instantly. [Aug 2015, p.79]

Even the combat is ancient and frustrating. [Aug 2015, p.78]

Logic, as well as quality, seems to have taken an early night. [May 2015, p.83]

The voice-controlled novelty wears off to reveal a short, broken strategy that'll leave you speechless. [May 2015, p.78]

For anyone with egg-chasing enthusiasm this - the sport's first outing on current gen, no less - is painful like a second row standing on your delicates. [Apr 2015, p.79]

Its heart is in the right place, but we can't forgive the dull, repetitive combat. [April 2015, p.70]

Possibly the worst blotch on Sonic's record. [Feb 2015, p.73]

In short: would not recommend. [Christmas 2014, p.78]

A dull and uninspired platformer. [Christmas 2014, p.78]

The characters filling out the world are, frankly, insultingly stupid and voiced so badly it wouldn't have even been funny in the '90s.[Nov 2014, p.79]

Play this on mobile and prepare to feel robbed. [Nov 2014, p.80]

The potential is there in the gunplay, but it's covered with shonky visuals and lifeless, grinding action. [Nov 2014, p.73]

Unfortunately, each action is made exasperating by fudgey animation cycles which cause expected actions to defy your clicks for a few seconds as they play out. [Oct 2014, p.81]

Not dreadful. [Oct 2014, p.80]

It has aged terribly. [Oct 2014, p.80]

A laudable concept let down by poor design. [Oct 2014, p.79]

The game's crass humour, repetitive gameplay and cultural indelicacy results in a depressing relic that should be consigned to the same draw[er] as that lightgun peripheral you never use anymore. [Oct 2014, p.77]

The rotting corpse floating in this flight sim's pool is its free-to-play mechanic. [Sept 2014, p.80]

[The dogs] never seem to say anything less than the most bile gland-stroking drivel. [Sept 2014, p.80]

The shame here isn't that this is a a bad beat-'em-up. It's that it's a good one saddled with so much nonsense and tedium that you're unlikely to care. [Aug 2014, p.78]

An apoplexy-inducing camera, that shifts between perspectives at every turn, ensures that just getting about the place is a chore. [July 2014, p.79]

We've seen worse, but this is still a disgraceful payment system. [July 2014, p.79]

With lofty ideas way above its station, this schlocky action-RPG is a well-meaning mess. [July 2014, p.76]

This is not "funny bad," it's just plain abysmal. [May 2014, p.79]

It's an unforgivably sloppy game. But even if it wasn't broken, it would still be fairly rubbish. [May 2014, p.76]

Dragon Ball Z deserves more than this. [Apr 2014, p.78]

A sloppy and surprisingly unimaginative journey through a dreary world. [Apr 2014, p.64]

Unsatisfying pad aiming. [March 2014, p.85]

The game comes first, not the business model. [March 2014, p.85]

After a cracking 2013, the 3DS starts the new year hungover and partied out. [Feb 2014, p.75]

While other sports games have slam dunked new-gen, this can't stop dribbling. [Feb 2014, p.74]

A game so poor one of its biggest challenges involved navigating the menus. Atrocious. [Feb 2014, p.74]

Not new-gen material. [Jan 2014, p.63]

Knight Rider? Shite Rider, more like. [Jan 2014, p.63]

Poorer than the Vancouver 2010 version. [Christmas 2013, p.82]

Great potential squandered by unimaginative level design and cheap mechanical failings. [Christmas 2013, p.82]

There's farming, but little of the promised "simulation". [Dec 2013, p.73]

Laughable. [Dec 2013, p.69]

Cry at the money wasted on this. [Nov 2013, p.69]

Horrendous reliance on trial and error. [Oct 2013, p.79]

The camera, controls, graphics, voice acting and combat aren't just broken - they're hilariously broken. [Oct 2013, p.77]

Jarring banality. [Oct 2013, p.77]

Appalling frame rate. [Oct 2013, p.75]

Rough textures don't help. [Oct 2013, p.71]

Legends has missed the point of the business model entirely, giving unfortunate players a choice of grinding through shallow, unfulfilling and downright ugly combat, or forking out substantial amounts of real money to bypass said mediocrity. [Sept 2013, p.71]

An extreme exercise in patience. [Sept 2013, p.71]

As moronic as it is ironic, plagued with a clumsy interface, poor tutorials, grim visuals and an annoyingly hands-off role in the development phase. All biz, no fizz. [Aug 2013, p.71]

Two-and-a-half hours of trundling around Damrey's bland corridors left us severely disappointed. [Aug 2013, p.71]

An absolute shambles, and a tragic waste of the brilliant original. [Aug 2013, p.71]

This is a Dogg turd. [Aug 2013, p.67]

A disaster. [July 2013, p.79]

Ropey physics and sticky controls collude to bring you back to earth with a bang. [July 2013, p.79]

Disappointing. [July 2013, p.77]

Feels uninspired. [July 2013, p.75]

The fighting system is more broken than Back Mountain. Avoid. [July 2013, p.75]

Strip away the license and you're left with an underwhelming shooter punctuated by endless hacking mini-games and woeful space combat. [July 2013, p.73]

Archaic design spoils good ideas in this shoddy squandering of one of the hottest licenses going. [June 2013, p.74]

Stylish visuals can't save this from being a repetitive and uninspiring experience. [May 2013, p.81]

Yawn. [May 2013, p.77]

This is ropey stuff. [Apr 2013, p.83]

It's bad enough that it's dull but the fact that it can be beaten in 90 minutes is pathetic. [Apr 2013, p.82]

It's a wonderful game, but the mod-friendly PC is original is the one to plump for. [March 2013, p.87]

A dull, horribly limited game that tries to rely on the Rabbids' likeability and fails miserably. [March 2013, p.86]

Spirited, but deeply flawed. [Feb 2013, p.89]

Spirited, but deeply flawed. [Feb 2013, p.89]