Nintendo Life's Scores

  • Games
For 5,857 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 45% higher than the average critic
  • 18% same as the average critic
  • 37% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 8 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Game review score: 67
Highest review score: 100 The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom
Lowest review score: 10 Lawnmower Game: Racing
Score distribution:
5865 game reviews
    • tbd Metascore
    • 10 Critic Score
    Forget comparing it to Zen Pinball; there's nothing that 101 Pinball World does right. With its slapdash level design, dire soundtrack and sub-Flash game physics, not to mention preposterous amounts of slowdown and a complete dearth of aesthetic appeal, 101 Pinball World is sincerely one of the worst games we have ever played.
    • 23 Metascore
    • 10 Critic Score
    If there's just one thing at which this particular version of Myst succeeds, it's serving as a prime example of what not to do when porting a classic game to a modern system.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 10 Critic Score
    There is such a thing as "too simple".
    • 32 Metascore
    • 10 Critic Score
    Halloween: Trick or Treat is simply mishandled on every possible level.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 10 Critic Score
    If you've played Incoming! for only thirty seconds, you've gotten just as much out of it as if you've played for several hours.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 10 Critic Score
    With plenty of educational titles for the DS, 3DS, Wii and mobile platforms, gamers of all ages are advised not to waste their money on garbage like this.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 10 Critic Score
    Christmas Wonderland 2 is awful. It's dull, poorly designed, unresponsive, and criminally overpriced. There's nothing here that you couldn't find in the first game, and that was a disappointing enough release as it was. Don't bother unwrapping this one... just take it right to the dump.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 10 Critic Score
    Anne's Doll Studio: Tokyo Collection seems tailor-made to incur our displeasure. As an unnecessary and overpriced sequel to a game that was unnecessary and overpriced to begin with, we certainly didn't expect much of it, but by removing features from an already flawed formula it ends up disappointing even our lowest expectations. We're very much looking forward to the next release in the series, which at this rate we have to assume will consist of nothing but an unresponsive title screen.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 10 Critic Score
    The Stonecutter is a depressing experience. It's one of the most scant and lifeless products on the Wii U eShop to date, a flimsy reinterpretation of an age-old tale that shoehorns in laughably negligible "gameplay" elements to adhere to the standards of the visual novel genre.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 10 Critic Score
    If you're looking for a board game mixing the strategy and fighting genre, look elsewhere. In fact, just go and play Fire Emblem or Smash Bros. Actually, just play anything else.
    • 30 Metascore
    • 10 Critic Score
    Power Rangers Megaforce isn't just a bad game — though it most assuredly is a bad game — it's downright broken in places.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 10 Critic Score
    We'd highly recommend that you pass this one over; instead, go out and buy yourself a nice stick of gum. It costs the same, and you'll get way more enjoyment out of it.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 10 Critic Score
    Christmas Wonderland 3 does offer a 3D effect — even if it isn't really put to any use — and an easier difficulty mode that its two predecessors did not, so if you absolutely must have a Christmas Wonderland game, this would be the one to buy. However that's as close to a recommendation as we would dare give this game.
    • 21 Metascore
    • 10 Critic Score
    Treat Zombii Attack like you would an undead plague: avoid it at all costs. The controls sporadically decide not to work, the graphics are terrible and gameplay revolves around the least enjoyable activity in gaming: waiting. Even if you do suck any fun from this game, it's over in a flash. Save yourself the frustration and the 500 Nintendo Points. There are far better ways to enjoy the zombie apocalypse.
    • 31 Metascore
    • 10 Critic Score
    Like Meme Run and Zombie Brigade, Superola And The Lost Burgers is an embarrassment to modern gaming. It’s crudely put together, with no originality behind the content – intentional or not – and the apparent 'platforming action' on offer is an insult to the much-loved genre. Even as an endless runner, this low level of quality is far from acceptable. The additional content included only heightens just how bad this entire package actually is. In truthfulness, it’s just a bunch of overdone memes and references mixed together that would fit right at home on a popular message board. Avoid this one at all costs.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 10 Critic Score
    We considered the possibility this game might be a gag with the kind of crappy 3D glitches you'd have seen on an old PlayStation or PC game, but if that's the case we didn't find it terribly amusing. Calaris were right not to attempt any promotion of this turd, but we would have preferred that they simply hadn't bothered releasing it and spared us having to review it.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 10 Critic Score
    So to summarise: Jet Dog has hardly any gameplay, relies on a good chunk of luck in combination with an awful lot of grinding.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 10 Critic Score
    Plenty of Fishies is an aggressively bad game.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 10 Critic Score
    Stay away from this miserable game and spend your hard-earned money and time elsewhere.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 10 Critic Score
    Nearly every facet of Zoo Disc Golf’s execution is completely broken: the controls are fidgety and inaccurate, the game’s presentation is some of the worst on Wii and it does all of this while being completely unenjoyable.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 10 Critic Score
    Having a minimum of creative expression and being almost completely worthless.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 10 Critic Score
    It's a broken mess that feels downright unfinished, which is notable as it can't be finished with an unwinnable level in the mix.

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