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For 340 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 19% higher than the average critic
  • 5% same as the average critic
  • 76% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 7.9 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Game review score: 67
Highest review score: 90 Bloodborne
Lowest review score: 7 Hatred
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 112 out of 340
  2. Mixed: 199 out of 340
  3. Negative: 29 out of 340
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    • 80 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Tom Clancy's The Division
    The Division is a game so eager to criminalize the poor, so eager to play into clichés of class war. Yet it staunchly refuses to take responsibility for its representations, for its politics. If we want that to change, we have to make it, and its creators, responsible.
    • 43 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Void and Meddler - Episode 1
    The game is aesthetically rich, but it lacks heart.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Bloodborne: The Old Hunters
    More isn’t bad just for its faults and repetitions. It’s worse than that: Bloodborne was pure—and The Old Hunters dilutes it.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Star Fox Zero
    As a game, Star Fox Zero isn’t so much broken as deeply and disappointingly lacking in inspiration. Shiny but not smooth, it’s a game about a space-faring fox in a spaceship that turns into a chicken without any sense of joy, and that might be the biggest disappointment of all.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Bravely Second: End Layer
    By trying to optimize it, the brave/default system inadvertently lays bare the arbitrariness structuring the player’s relation to the game, the role one ostensibly plays becoming repeatable and, indeed, automatable in yet another striking parallel to the looming “new economy.”
    • 73 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Battlefield Hardline
    We can see in its lack of substance a reflection of a disturbing social complacency when it comes to exploring complicated issues like police violence and systemic racism. We can also recognize what little faith it has in its players to wrestle with difficult concepts, to find something meaningful and troubling behind using a digital badge and police-issued firearm in equal measure to solve our crime problems.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Xenoblade Chronicles X
    It ought to remind us of what’s so good about the maximalism of other JRPGs.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    J.U.L.I.A.: Among the Stars
    Just the sheer amount of detail put into each aspect of world-building, from the designs of the planets to the religion of an alien species, is incredible.
    • 40 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Slain!
    Slain! is a poser, well-dressed and intentioned but vacuous, contributing nothing to the scene. It has the spiked gauntlets, the long hair, the denim jacket; but the house lights are on and everything’s out of tune.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Persona 4 Arena Ultimax
    The fighting game here is fun and engaging, but its wrapper is so, so flawed.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Tesla Effect: A Tex Murphy Adventure
    The best adventure games have an engaging story and interesting puzzles. Tesla Effect doesn't have either.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 49 Critic Score
    Kero Blaster
    I’m relieved to get to the end of it not because I’m looking forward to playing all of the bosses again in one try, but because it means that if I fail—if I die to a boss repeatedly and run out of lives—I don’t have to go back through the exact same level full of the tedious, non-threatening enemies again, and again, and again; I can just play the bosses, which is what this game should have been about from the beginning.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 49 Critic Score
    The Maker's Eden
    Perhaps with its ensuing acts A Maker’s Eden will find its. For now, it rests as something kind of cool, slightly interactive, and mostly, an unfinished journal.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 49 Critic Score
    Dragon Quest VIII: Journey of the Cursed King
    Without the weight of tradition behind it, flattening out your finger hitting “Fight wisely” just feels like cow-clicking. Personally, I’d rather spend that time elsewhere.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 48 Critic Score
    Albino Lullaby: Episode 1
    “Kooky” is a good word for Albino Lullaby.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 48 Critic Score
    Submerged
    Submerged is skeletal and unoiled. It is damned by competence: a short story that checks the boxes, but in doing so leaves no mark.
    • 55 Metascore
    • 46 Critic Score
    DreadOut
    DreadOut revels in cliche, sometimes quite smartly.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 45 Critic Score
    Fallout Shelter
    An exceptionally uncreative piece of schlock.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 45 Critic Score
    The Legend of Zelda: Tri Force Heroes
    But Heroes’s oddest design choice is surely its violation of a Zelda tradition since time immemorial (i.e. 1986): Link can’t jump.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 45 Critic Score
    Bound by Flame
    So much of Bound by Flame induces boredom or irritation that it seemed the best recourse to seek out a style of play that facilitated, if not outright enjoyment, at least an absence of hostility.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 45 Critic Score
    Wheels of Aurelia
    All in all, the game feels like a tourist trap rather than a destination.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 43 Critic Score
    Malebolgia
    But without the dexterity to give its gaming forebearers the same level of faithfulness, it ends up being hellacious for all the wrong reasons.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 43 Critic Score
    Murasaki Baby
    Not being able to connect with Baby, to think of her as more burden than child, soured me on Murasaki Baby. With poor touch controls, the designers have turned a small, cute game into a bit of a mess.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    The Lady
    The developer put in details that make the game virtually impossible.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    The Tomorrow Children
    In the end, it’s kitsch. It’s a Soviet-themed Lego set that renders a monumental socio-political phenomenon into little else but a toy. And an exceptionally boring one at that.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Destiny: The Dark Below
    The repetition of tasks, activities and missions is presented to the player as the lone way to achieve rewards, and yet within the constructed system of randomness and uncertainty that the game offers, these rewards are never certain. This is how it presents the enterprise of self-improvement as content in itself.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Sid Meier's Starships
    Had the realization of that universe been more fully fleshed out—expansive and deep rather than restrictive and boardgame-like—Spaceships could have found success as a kind of post-human strategy game. Instead it feels lifeless. But not in the existential, gazing-into-the-void-of-space way. More in the way that an aging child realizes that her blanket is just a blanket, and promptly stops caring about it.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Pac-Man Championship Edition 2
    The creators of Pac-Man CE 2 had the difficult task of remixing a game that has already been expanded upon and reworked to the point of refinement, and they chose to pile on the complexity anyway. The result is a Frankenstein’s Pac-Man—a mess of features and modes that, despite all the power pellets and fruit and ghosts, still left me feeling hungry.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    The Girl and the Robot
    I won’t remember my time with The Girl and the Robot feeling like a magical fairytale. I’ll recall it being a poorly designed, stressful videogame. And that’s a shame, because that initial art sure was cute.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Probably Archery
    Attempting to bring your two arms together to ready a shot as your aggressor charges blindly toward you is beautifully simple and absurd. In any other shooting game, such an opponent would pose no threat whatsoever, but the balance between the ludicrous distance the sword-wielding apple-man has to travel in order to reach you and the exceptional difficulty of lining up a shot combine to create a fine piece of participatory humor.
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