Not dreadful. [Oct 2014, p.80]

More an advert for the cartoon than a game. [July 2007, p.84]

About as much fun as a Transformer that converts into a lump of coal. Give it a miss. [Sept 2010, p.99]

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

A seed of a good idea prematurely chocked by numerous technical and design shortcomings. [Feb 2012, p.96]

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

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

One of the weakest, most boring Bond games of all time. The brand deserves much better. [Christmas 2012, p.83]

A magical menagerie of neat ideas, ruined by horrid execution. [Feb 2011, p.81]

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

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

Its difficulty curve is all over the place. [June 2009, p.81]

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

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

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

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

Run-of-the-mill. [Jan 2012, p.93]

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

Derivative of "Spider-Man 2" and with double the problems. [July 2007, p.74]

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

We're betting it works better in the plastic flesh. [Aug 2011, p.93]

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

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

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

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

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

Terrible combat. [Jan 2011, p.89]

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]

If we were five-or-under, we'd want to play Mario on the Virtual Console instead. [Jan 2011, p.92]

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

Quite simply the worst game to bear the Nintendo logo in a generation or two. [Feb 2008, p.78]

The racing is twee and unsatisfying. [Jan 2011]

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

A party without fun is merely a gathering. Played alone, this is a bit of a disaster. [Apr 2012, p.96]

The real killer, though, is the amount of time wasted watching loading screens. [Jan 2011]

Remains a shallow experience. [Sept 2011, p.91]

If this was a fiver we might - might - consider it worthwhile. Until then, avoid. [July 2007, p.71]

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

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

A game so crap you're intrigued to see what happens next. [June 2012, p.88]

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

Insanely long loading times. [Feb 2013, p.76]

Flimsy. [June 2011, p.83]

Chunky and clunky in a 1996 kind of way. [Sept 2010, p.101]

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

It should come packaged with "Diamond/Pearl" for an extra 5 quid. It doesn't. Avoid. [Jan 2007, p.70]

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]

Needs a control pad option or a gameplay rethink. At the moment it just doesn't work. [May 2009, p.74]

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]

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

Feels uninspired. [July 2013, p.75]

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]

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

Those vibrant skies still pop and the sense of speed is undeniable, but this is best left as a happy memory. [Issue#232, p.87]

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

Frustrating and joyless. [Apr 2009, p.74]

Won't give Mr. Tajitnov sleepless nights. [Aug 2012, p.80]

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

In a word: shonky. [July 2011, p.89]

This is a little too close to menial warehouse work. [May 2012, p.90]

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

A soulless advert for a crummy toyline. [Dec 2009, p.85]

Tragically, it doesn't actually seem to work. [Jan 2011]

An awful game that does nothing for Wii U and less for your sanity. [Feb 2013, p.75]

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]

A poor homage to a poor series. Avoid like Rasputin's loincloth. [Christmas 2008, p.84]

A brief, lacklustre journey that should be avoided at all costs. [May 2008, p.84]

And so another dull children's cartoon becomes another dull children's cartoon spin-off game. [Mar 2011, p.93]

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

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

Essentially, you're paying 20 quid for something far inferior to "Wii Sports." [June 2008, p.80]

A total dud. [July 2011, p.89]

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]

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

Guiding the five idiotic animals through each level is real torture. [Oct 2008, p.85]

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

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

Jarring banality. [Oct 2013, p.77]

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

Even without the Monkey Island penis envy factored in, this is a shipwreck of a game. [Apr 2012, p.86]

Rather than end with a big bang, this videogame series goes out like a damp squib. [Oct 2011, p.92]

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

The graphics would shame a third-party N64 game - theyr'e that bad. [Mar 2007, p.74]

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

A miserable, awkward and unsatisfying excuse for a pool game. [Oct 2008, p.85]

A botched attempt to borrow ideas from the best has produced a shocker of a game. [May 2009, p.70]

Any potential for campy fun disperses upon pressing the power button. [Oct 2010, p.86]

Sure, there's a neat Muramasa-ness to the inky visuals, but we shouldn't have to endure such combat tedium in order to appreciate them. Yuck. [Sept 2012, p.107]

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

Has no depth, no polish, and no point. [June 2009, p.81]

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

Blame the combat system; it's rudimentary and unwieldy. [Sept 2010, p.104]

Let's hope Hogan wraps his 24-inch pythons around the neck of the guy responsible for this. [Mar 2010, p.77]

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]

A point-'n'-click with minimal pointing and telegraphed clicking. NCIS fan? Still avoid this. [Feb 2012, p.98]

The combat is mind-numbing. [Feb 2013, p.77]

A disaster. [July 2013, p.79]