Nintendo Gamer's Scores

  • Games
For 1,482 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 46% higher than the average critic
  • 7% same as the average critic
  • 47% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 14.3 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Game review score: 61
Highest review score: 100 Mighty Milky Way
Lowest review score: 0 Fireplacing
Score distribution:
1482 game reviews
    • 70 Metascore
    • 46 Critic Score
    If the balance board controls worked, the game world wasn't so barren and there weren't severe balancing issues, this would be okay. [Feb 2009, p.64]
    • Nintendo Gamer
    • tbd Metascore
    • 46 Critic Score
    As a game, Escape Trick: Rock City Prison is turgid and infuriating. [Jan 2012, p.123]
    • Nintendo Gamer
    • 49 Metascore
    • 46 Critic Score
    More tech demo than anything else. [May 2011, p.65]
    • Nintendo Gamer
    • 44 Metascore
    • 45 Critic Score
    The source material deserves far better than this. [Apr 2008, p.73]
    • 35 Metascore
    • 45 Critic Score
    The whole game looks like it was hastily moulded out of plasticine. [Sept 2007, p.70]
    • Nintendo Gamer
    • 39 Metascore
    • 45 Critic Score
    Zendoku is much, much better. [Aug 2007, p.65]
    • Nintendo Gamer
    • 61 Metascore
    • 45 Critic Score
    You'll think you've snagged a winner to begin with, but reeling in boot after metaphorical boot reminds you that this is the same old Rapala. [Dec 2008, p.63]
    • Nintendo Gamer
    • 56 Metascore
    • 45 Critic Score
    This game only confirms our anti-Thor prejudice. He IS crap. [June 2011, p.64]
    • Nintendo Gamer
    • 43 Metascore
    • 45 Critic Score
    Less Deep Blue Sea, and more In The Bin. [May 2008, p.74]
    • Nintendo Gamer
    • 50 Metascore
    • 45 Critic Score
    Hold out for the vastly superior Shinobi. [Aug 2011, p.72]
    • Nintendo Gamer
    • 43 Metascore
    • 45 Critic Score
    Sorry to disappoint, but if Safecracker is the ultimate puzzle adventure then we're a small punnet of strawberries. [Mar 2010, p.68]
    • Nintendo Gamer
    • 54 Metascore
    • 45 Critic Score
    We just sigh for what could have been. [Feb 2012, p.101]
    • Nintendo Gamer
    • 59 Metascore
    • 45 Critic Score
    Good graphics, thoroughly boring gameplay. [Issue#56, p.60]
    • Nintendo Gamer
    • 60 Metascore
    • 45 Critic Score
    The only mystery is why anyone would buy into something so lazy. [Aug 2008, p.66]
    • Nintendo Gamer
    • 59 Metascore
    • 45 Critic Score
    The makings of a great sim let down by terrible AI and scrappy graphics. [Christmas 2011, p.75]
    • Nintendo Gamer
    • 54 Metascore
    • 45 Critic Score
    A so-so puzzler spoiled by airborne interludes. [Oct 2008, p.77]
    • Nintendo Gamer
    • 59 Metascore
    • 45 Critic Score
    The only mystery is why anyone would buy into something so lazy. [Aug 2008, p.66]
    • Nintendo Gamer
    • tbd Metascore
    • 45 Critic Score
    Play the real games instead. [Christmas 2010, p.70]
    • Nintendo Gamer
    • 58 Metascore
    • 45 Critic Score
    This is a love letter to 16-bit RPGs, albeit written in really messy handwriting. [Sept 2009, p.73]
    • Nintendo Gamer
    • 52 Metascore
    • 45 Critic Score
    Whatever nuance there is to swing control is lost in the five-hour bowler animation. [Dec 2007, p.54]
    • Nintendo Gamer
    • 64 Metascore
    • 45 Critic Score
    It's very little fun to play, and since you can play a limited version online for free as a Flash game, there's no good reason to put it in your DS. [June 2007, p.70]
    • Nintendo Gamer
    • tbd Metascore
    • 45 Critic Score
    It makes Space Jam look like a sophisticated and well-considered movie. [Nov 2011, p.73]
    • Nintendo Gamer
    • 66 Metascore
    • 45 Critic Score
    A bit of stylus-powered frog-in-a-ball rolling occasionally interrupts the bounding, but even this is clumsily controlled, with mad stroking more likely to erode your DS screen than get the spherical spawn of the devil to respond. [Mar 2007, p.61]
    • Nintendo Gamer
    • 52 Metascore
    • 45 Critic Score
    This repetitious trudge is nothing to do with Soul Calibur beyond some character skins, and should be avoided unless you want to lose the will to live. [Feb 2008, p.52]
    • 71 Metascore
    • 45 Critic Score
    The terrible presentation and the tiny icons won't endear themselves to the crusty purne-eyes belonging to their target audience. [Aug 2007, p.71]
    • Nintendo Gamer
    • tbd Metascore
    • 45 Critic Score
    The kids will probably love it, mind. [Apr 2011, p.74]
    • Nintendo Gamer
    • 46 Metascore
    • 45 Critic Score
    Too easy. [Feb 2011, p.70]
    • Nintendo Gamer
    • 46 Metascore
    • 45 Critic Score
    An awkward and ugly collection of minigames. [Apr 2010, p.62]
    • Nintendo Gamer
    • 37 Metascore
    • 45 Critic Score
    Cuteness doesn't make up for the lack of an enjoyable game - we hope this only serves a short term in office. [JPN Import; Mar 2007, p.60]
    • tbd Metascore
    • 45 Critic Score
    Less a twist on the genre, more a re-draw with a different coloured pencil. [Apr 2012, p.101]
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