The king of Neo Geo struggles to find its footing on XBLA. [Dec 2008, p.84]

Rather boring. [July 2010, p.93]

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

Doesn't add much. Rather it subtracts. [July 2011, p.91]

The levels are colorful but dull, and after a mere five minutes a lurking sense of deja vu descends. Dead poor. [July 2008, p.82]

Shoot, swerve, shoot, swerve. In space, no one can hear you snore. [Oct 2008, p.84]

Less Pikmin, more Thickman. Avoid. [Aug 2011, p.91]

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

Guiding its tendrils is a vague science. [Sept 2010, p.99]

It's incapable of holding your attention for long enough to warrant a high review score. [Feb 2011, p.91]

It's still just a bit too steep at 4.50 quid. [Christmas 2011, p.89]

Unfriendly and dull. If Advance Wars had an evil twin, it would probably look like this. [May 2009, p.71]

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

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

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

Immediately entertaining, but not particularly deep or long-lasting. [Aug 2011, p.95]

Even if the Elder Scrolls cold turkey is hurting bad, buying this would still be a daft decision. [Mar 2011, p.92]

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

Ploddingly dull retro RPG. Half the 30 hours is backtracking. [June 2006, p.80]

A hit on iOS, Chillingo's puzzler arrives on DSi with uglier looks, less content and a wheezing frame rate. [Christmas 2011, p.89]

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

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

Can we have it this simple, but a bit bigger? [Dec 2009, p.87]

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

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

Definitely avoid at this price. [Aug 2010, p.101]

Overly cutesy. [May 2011, p.89]

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

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

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

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]

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

Fun to look at, but the inconsistent AI and poor level design make playing it a whole other story. [Oct 2018, p.82]

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]

Pretty, but oddly unsatisfying to play. [July 2011, p.87]

A poor man's Everybody's Golf clone. [Nov 2011, p.95]

Baffling. [Nov 2017, p.81]

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

Turgid stuff. [Oct 2010, p.77]

Weak strategy built around a minigame that's okay for coffee breaks on your PC but not so great for Xbox Live. [Christmas 2009, p.80]

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

Backgrounds are blurry. [Sept 2010, p.101]

Passable as a single-player game but completely falls apart in co-op. Avoid. [Christmas 2008, p.64]

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

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

The same Disney games you've played 300 times before. [May 2006, p.80]

All 3D does is push heinous graphics closer to our eyes. You'd be safer rubbing dog poo into them. [Jan 2012, p.93]

This just can't compete. [Feb 2011, p.91]

A child safe damp squib of a game that has none of the edge of the cartoon. [Aug 2007, p.73]

"Quotation Forthcoming"

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

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

Less is more, even when girl-punching is involved. [Feb 2012, p.95]

A solid emulation of a title better left as arcade history. [Nov 2012, p.83]

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

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

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

A horrendous collection you'll never want to revisit. [Jan 2008, p.78]

Feels uninspired. [July 2013, p.75]

The lackluster level designs and jerky controls make you feel empty. [Jan 2008, p.76]

The kind of thing you'd regret downloading to your mobile. But more expensive. [June 2008, p.71]

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

Nothing more than Bland Bland Racing. [Sept 2012, p.101]

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

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]

Neat arty ideas but terrible controls and a lazy narrative undermine the gameplay. [Aug 2012, p.79]

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

A feeble impersonation of the main event, let down by ageing hardware. [Jan 2012, p.93]

We find the randomness of the block fall - the low spirit count, in particular - can, and often does, leave the game unwinnable. [Mar 2011, p.93]

Flimsy. [June 2011, p.83]

A meagre, mostly unjustifiable package whose ambitions plough the soils. [June 2006, p.70]

Too much talk and truly rotten combat. Seriously Liquid, are you taking the myth? [Mar 2009, p.80]

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

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

A mindless, repetitive trudge through a sea of ugly. [May 2012, p.102]

Pitch-perfect nostalgia spoiled by borderline unplayable matches. [Apr 2012, p.92]

When it does work it's dull and when it tries something new it fails miserably. [June 2007, p.69]

Uninspiring puzzles. [Aug 2010, p.104]

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

Fans might enjoy the sing-a-long. But the game part of this is seriously lacking. [Feb 2008, p.68]

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

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

A minigame compilation that lacks any real charm, and simply isn't enough fun. [Jan 2007, p.69]

A 14-game collection that inspires only fleeting nostalgia. [Christmas 2006, p.101]

About as fun as mustard gas. [Jan 2012, p.93]

Terrible combat. [Jan 2011, p.89]

The simplicity of the web game is lost in this flabby, oversized spin-off. [Nov 2012, p.85]

Unfairness and all-around cruddiness negate the fun of long distance malice. [Oct 2010, p.86]

It's nowhere near the finished article. [Sept 2012, p.108]

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

Really difficult and mean-spirited. Puff was magic; Spyro is a jerk. [Christmas 2007, p.84]

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

Dull, dumb predictable and annoying to play. Sorry, Scooby. [Christmas 2006, p.101]

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

It's not awful just basic to the point of tedium. [Aug 2012, p.84]

It's tedious stuff. [Christmas 2012, p.91]

Gamers have outgrown games so utterly basic and brainless. [May 2009, p.80]

Go and see the movie instead - it's cheaper, it stars Ricky Gervais and they serve popcorn. [July 2009, p.82]