Cheap and cheerful ways to get creative on your DSi, but they're not for hardcore musos. [Sept 2010, p.96]

Cheap and cheerful ways to get creative on your DSi, but they're not for hardcore musos. [Sept 2010, p.96]

A horrible platformer. [Sept 2010, p.96]

A perfectly respectable time-waster. [Sept 2010, p.97]

Weird. [Sept 2010, p.97]

A nice idea but a little too basic. [Sept 2010, p.97]

Mind-bogglingly pointless. [Sept 2010, p.97]

At least playable without the need for a lobotomy. [Sept 2010, p.97]

A horrible, cheap, nasty game that could have been put together in an afternoon. [Sept 2010, p.97]

It's a little easy, but it's not for hardened gamers. [Oct 2010, p.91]

The virtual pet aspect is a waste of time. [Oct 2010, p.91]

A shameless imitation of a game that's infinitely better in every department. [Oct 2010, p.94]

Five bland tables with odd art design. It's pinball, and that's about it. Avoid. [Oct 2010, p.95]

Three rubbish card games for just under a fiver. [Oct 2010, p.95]

Too slow to be any fun. [Oct 2010, p.96]

It's slow, it's easy and it's repetitive. [Oct 2010, p.96]

Cute, but not worth it. [Oct 2010, p.97]

A decent enough compilation. [Oct 2010, p.97]

An ugly game. [Oct 2010, p.97]

Unless you only want to learn the French for individual words though it's a bit useless. [Oct 2010, p.97]

Sometimes realism is bad. [Oct 2010, p.97]

Stick to the board games. [Christmas 2010, p.91]

Great for a while, but it gets a little carried away until it's so impossible that it's no longer fun. [Christmas 2010, p.92]

Its instruments aren't quite as impressive as the first game's but this is still great stuff. [Christmas 2010, p.93]

Funny, tricky and it'll last you a while. [Christmas 2010, p.93]

It's pleasant enough, but this'll be over long before your couch has even warmed up. [Christmas 2010, p.94]

You'll chuck your controller around in frustration. [Christmas 2010, p.94]

A good time-killer. [Christmas 2010, p.94]

This has been done much better, many times before. [Christmas 2010, p.94]

Too pricey for our liking. [Christmas 2010, p.94]

Utterly boring activities. [Feb 2011, p.90]

It does just about work, but it's not well-suited to the DS. [Feb 2011, p.90]

This one does have the added feature of posting your high scores to your Facebook or Twitter feed but, let's face it, that's just going to annoy people. [Feb 2011, p.91]

Awful script, atrocious music. [Feb 2011, p.91]

It's fiddly but well-presented and offers plenty of missions to play through. [Feb 2011, p.93]

It's fast and daft, but you might as well get the DS game that it's based on. [Feb 2011, p.93]

A charming game with a clever gameplay mechanic but not a lot else on top of that. [Feb 2011, p.94]

While it's engaging, this isn't worth a fiver. [Feb 2011, p.95]

A tired, old game genre stretched out to within an inch of its life. Dull, dull, dull. [Feb 2011, p.97]

Incredibly buggy, prone to crashing and makes it difficult to aim at times. [Feb 2011, p.97]

Less enjoyable than the DS version. [Mar 2011, p.100]

It's a nice idea, but it's very limited in what you're able to create. What a shame. [Mar 2011, p.102]

Buggy and samey, but it has a charm that'll keep you interested for a few minutes. [Mar 2011, p.104]

Impressive for 10 minutes or so, but it lacks any replay value whatsoever. [Mar 2011, p.104]

Fun multiplayer partly makes up for lousy solo play. You'll need some willing chums. [Mar 2011, p.104]

Basic stuff, but if you like solving tangrams it's a good way to get hold of loads of them. [Mar 2011, p.104]

Here's a crazy idea for you: just buy a pen and some paper instead. [Mar 2011, p.105]

A very limited on-rails shooter that just gets boring after you've played it for about 15 minutes or so. [Mar 2011, p.105]

Horrible to look at, has utterly bland levels and it's basically inferior in every way to the similar game "T-Rex Rumble," which is also available on DSiWare. [Mar 2011, p.105]

Get Rytmik instead, because it's much easier to get the hang of that. [Mar 2011, p.105]

Simply drawing four walls to make make a room takes you an eternity. [Jan 2011, p.77]

A poor collection of rubbish Flash games. [Jan 2011, p.86]

The biggest problem is the lack of any sort of map. [Jan 2011, p.87]

Frustratingly inaccessible. [Jan 2011, p.87]

Entertaining as ever, but only get this if you've completed all the original levels. [Jan 2011, p.92]

Simple but highly addictive. [Aug 2011, p.92]

Surprisingly competent. [Sept 2011, p.92]

The camera may be zoomed in a bit too close for our liking and its grappling hook system may be a bit pants, but Moto eXtreme offers hours of compelling gameplay. [Nov 2011, p.93]

The horse-averse might want to avoid, but steeple-people will play furlong. [Nov 2011, p.96]

Monotonous enough - and once you've finished that, you go back to the start to begin again as the 'dungeon' recreates itself. Hilariously, there's a second chapter to download, if you haven't had enough already...

Very basic. [Feb 2012, p.100]

It's very pleasant, but you feel like you're passing the time, rather than having fun. [March 2012, p.107]

Never gets boring in single-player mode, but it's even more fun in multiplayer mode. [Apr 2012, p.95]

A very basic point-and-click crippled by non-interaction and a rather weak script. [Apr 2012, p.103]

What it lacks in charm it (almost) makes up for in tension as you only have three lives. [June 2012, p.109]

You're getting plenty of puzzles for your 4.50, but it's presented badly and it seems unfairly difficult from an early stage. [June 2012, p.109]

Lego Batman 2 is a basic game underneath the blocky cowl, but there's so much Bat-flavoured goodness here that fans will have a blast.

A tie-in that will only disappoint anyone hoping to play as a "real" MiB character. [Aug 2012, p.104]

Honestly, if you buy this game, you are harming the industry. A truly horrible title. [Oct 2012, p.99]

A shamefully cynical 'update' that brings absolutely nothing new to the table and asks £30 for it. Stick with FIFA 12, it's only a tenner these days. Or save your money for FIFA 13 Wii U.

Feels like more bitter pill than it should. [Dec 2012, p.109]

Will scratch an itch for a new strategy RPG, but expect the dull ache of disappointment as a side-effect. [Christmas 2012, p.111]

Another disappointing case of a developer running a feather duster along last year's game and releasing it as new. [Jan 2013, p.110]

A sporadic, fragmented mess of Bond history spliced with brainless shooting that feels like a rushed Call Of Duty copycat. Get Black Ops 2. Don't get this.

Years of slow innovation have resulted in a game worthy of the LOTR name. Probably not a classic, but the journey there and back again is a treat.

Perhaps a trifle too authentic, but it's slick, fun and so full of 8-bit memories that it feels like watching someone flick through an old game magazine. [May 2013, p.84]

It's amazing that it's so far from finished. We're not sure if it's the developer, the publisher or both, but someone should be ashamed of themselves. Awful.

A disaster. [June 2013, p.84]

The graphics are some of the worst seen on WiiU...[and] many of the controls are flawed and unresponsive. [June 2013, p.84]

It might be a faithful enough recreation of the world's most popular murder-sport, but it's absolutely nothing more. [July 2013, p.86]

This could be the most accurate simulation ever made. By no means should that be taken as a compliment. [July 2013, p.86]

An idea's nice, but this one's been left to decay. [July 2013, p.86]

Equal parts tough and rough: a rescue mission never felt quite so much like the suicide equivalent. [Oct 2013, p.88]

At least this knows its market. [Oct 2013, p.89]

Never steps outside of its comfort zone. [Oct 2013, p.89]

The alarming thing is that this was ever made. [Christmas 2013, p.88]

The doodads don't even make a noise, for pity's sake. [Dec 2013, p.88]

Few 2D games have this much atmosphere, but Ecco's unforgiving gameplay hasn't aged well, unfortunately. [Feb 2014, p.90]

The other 3D classics are great. This is not. [Feb 2014, p.91]

We're not sure we'd even pay 69p for this great big pile of Sith (sp?). Search your feelings, you know this to be poo. [March 2014, p.88]

Zen captures the weight and feel of a pinball table as well as a game is ever likely to. [May 2014, p.84]

Released somewhat prematurely, LEGO The Hobbit feels like more of a promotional tie-in than a proper standalone game. Still: lots of fun to be had. [June 2014, p.78]

Not bad, as far as hidden-object games go, but utterly unnecessary on the 3DS. Get it on PC, if you must. [June 2014, p.89]

A sweet, inventive mix of interactive screensaver and puzzle game, offering only minimal challenge. [Sept 2014, p.90]

Bearly enjoyable, bearly funny...[Sept 2014, p.90]

It's frustrating to see such smooth controls wasted in a game that doesn't know how to keep you playing. [Aug 2014, p.87]

Probably best left for Zen Pinball diehards and Guardians of the Galaxy fanatics. [Christmas 2014, p.94]