It’s mildly engaging, and you can call in friends to help if boss encounters get sticky, but other than the usual compulsion of role-playing style levelling up, it’s pretty forgettable.

Yet another inessential and senseless expansion that ignores all the best elements of the original.

Another overly simplistic WiiWare puzzler, that benefits hardly at all from being a video game.

Another perfectly crafted adventure that puts to shame most other retail games at five times its price.

The official World Rally Championship game is looking tired on just its second outing, with very few improvements to the first game and far too many flaws.

Unfortunately, the game doesn’t live up to its look and feel, with letters proving tricky to place accurately, power-ups supplying confusing benefits – and often what feel like hindrances – while the gradual reveal of letter tiles makes it hard to plan ahead or play tactically.

A flight simulation so shallow you barely need to hold the joypad to become a top gun.

Some strange design decisions create a racing sequel that’s arguably worse than the original, and only time will tell whether it recovers from its poor start.

The Wii U could've enabled a mini-revolution in karaoke games, but that'll never happen with the minimum effort and budget at work here.

Cheaply shovelled ports of four classic games, plus two awful new exclusives that do both their franchises and the 3DS an enormous disservice.

Its amusingly on-message alerts – ‘HEY NERD! You can’t build muscle just by texting! Get back to the dojo!’ – are great and being hazed, 80s style, by Johnny Lawrence remains inspiring. Sadly, the game, with its random-feeling successes and lacklustre card collecting, isn’t nearly as interesting.

Nothing like the game implied by the trailer and an only occasionally interesting, and obviously low budget, attempt to marry Dead Rising with Fallout.

It looks the part, but this 18-rated Final Fight suffers from a repellent script and the usual descent into monotonous, skill-less button-bashing.

Another disappointing slice of downloadable content, with little of what made the main game great.

Less a reboot of a forgotten NES game and more a sub-par clone of Dead Cells, where the gorgeous visuals cannot hide the mediocre gameplay.

Resident Evil 4 might get something of a free pass but Code: Veronica was flawed 11 years ago, and none of the issues are fixed in this HD 'update'.

Fire Emblem should be the perfect partner for Dynasty Warriors style action, but this incompetently made crossover squanders its potential on trite fan service and hollow gameplay.

A disappointing evolution of the Budokai Tenkaichi template, which despite some interesting ideas seems intent on making itself as shallow and simplistic as possible.

An extremely poor port of what had been the highlight of the franchise up till now, with nothing added but plenty taken away.

A disappointingly direct reboot of the ground-breaking original, with none of the same ambitious appetite for innovation.

A failed attempt to turn Minecraft into a real-time strategy game, that goes out of its way to be as shallow as possible and is made worse by fiddly controls and terrible AI.

The oldest online role-player on the block is definitely showing its age, particularly on the DS.

Beautiful to look at, and with some great puzzles, but the bland writing is even worse than Hotel Dusk.

The co-op action can be fun, but the rest of the game is just as dull and miserable as life in occupied America is portrayed.

A fun reminder of how first person shooters used to be, but the opportunity to marry the best of the old and the new has been studiously avoided.

Dragon Quest meets Pokémon but the resultant synthesis really only inherits the worst of both parents, despite some impressive visuals.

An unlikely mix of the bland, the predictable, and the surprisingly excellent – which only makes the mediocre end result all the more frustrating.

Offline multiplayer may be increasingly a thing of the past, but In Space We Brawl isn’t anywhere near interesting enough to reverse that trend.