PlayStation LifeStyle's Scores

  • Games
For 2,475 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 56% higher than the average critic
  • 5% same as the average critic
  • 39% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 2.4 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Game review score: 72
Highest review score: 100 NHL 11
Lowest review score: 10 Earth Atlantis
Score distribution:
2481 game reviews
    • 66 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    At this point, while trying to honor Batman and give unexpected beats, Telltale has managed to make Batman actually feel dull. There’s a lot of potential in what they are doing, but Children of Arkham is more poorly rehearsed high school play than engrossing Batman fiction.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 85 Critic Score
    A Vita game that you need to pick up and enjoy, because it is one of the best experiences on Sony's handheld yet. Sure the game has some frustrating moments and can become a bit repetitive, but it delivers intense action, smooth visuals, and an online experience that will have you coming back for more.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    It’s genuinely difficult to not be charmed by the foul-mouthed shenanigans of Rad Rodgers. The game somehow manages to morph extremely dated design ideals into a form that is palatable to the modern console crowd.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Ride is a great racing title from veteran studio Milestone S.r.l.. It manages to have depth for veteran players, while also being accessible to new racers. If you’re sick of driving cars, and want a new challenge then Ride will offer up a fun one to master.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    While the PlayLink technology has potential and does some really cool things by turning your phone into a controller, it also adds unnecessary complications to a game that uses the second screen functionality as more of a gimmick than a core gameplay mechanic. Hidden Agenda is a good game, but is held back from being great by trying to fit it into the party game mold.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    A triumph for players out there looking for an addicting RPG full of creating items and building your kingdom to new heights.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Ultimately though, this is still the same critically scorned game from 2007, just with a couple of added features.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Puzzle Agent is too short, and not memorable enough to warrant our stamp of approval, and there are far better games on PSN, and from Telltale Games.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    The Last Tinker: City of Colors if a throw back game that provides gamers with a simple approach to fun and it works.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    MonsterBag‘s art style, presentation, and soundtrack are commendable. Its weird and eccentric world drew me in to the point where I attentively watched all of the un-skippable cut-scenes out of curiosity.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Kingdom Hearts III Re:MIND is a director’s cut replay of the main game’s finale followed by a series of absurdly difficult and often seemingly unfair boss fights, and fails to justify its hefty $30 price point.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    It is an interesting take on an off-road racer with some seriously breathtaking jumps, but lacked basically everywhere else.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Berserk and the Band of the Hawk is, as Musou games go, undeniably enjoyable and satisfying.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    It’s more melancholy than anything else—sad at times, joyfully freeing for the franchise at others.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 45 Critic Score
    Extended loading times, washed out textures, and an unobtainable online infrastructure crucify what could have been a fresh start for the franchise. Worst of all, the personalities behind the sport have not transcended whatsoever – taking away one of its greatest assets.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Despite fighting games feeling somewhat stagnant for quite some time, somehow a game from 2011 has managed to feel like something new and fresh. While it is never going to have the balance or fan popularity of other frontrunners in the genre, Chaos Code: New Sign of Catastrophe, is a perfectly functional brawler that is approachable for the casual audience and has enough meat to appeal to the hardcore. It isn’t going to set the world on fire or re-define a genre, but it certainly knows how to leave an impression. Animatronic ta-tas tend to do that.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    While Battlezone is a very simple game conceptually, Rebellion has done a great job of making the most of what’s there.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Awakened is a good, dementia filled experience for anyone who liked Dead Space 3 and was left wanting more, but will do little to sway new owners into picking up the game just for the downloadable content.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 65 Critic Score
    City of Brass is a really fun first-person roguelike, but the die-rinse-repeat formula wears thin far more quickly than it should.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    The sequel to the classic is indeed worthy in most ways, and Chivalry II is a much needed upgrade to the original game. Combat has a lot going on, and while many players will behave as non-chivalrous bastards, there is a good amount of fun to be found on the medieval battlefields of Chivalry II.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The Sims 4 is a game that rewards players the more time they spend with it. The heavier emphasis on the emotional state of each Sim adds a lot of variety to even regular household chores.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Ghost Games is onto something seriously promising with this franchise reboot. However, being unable to pause the game as well as no option to play offline may prove two obstacles that are not surmountable for some players.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Among the Sleep would be a good buy at $9.99 or under. As it stands now, $14.99 is a bit too steep a price to ask for a game that is very short, and not particularly emotionally investing.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Slam Bolt Scrappers serves its course as a good multiplayer title but feels incomplete, especially at its current price of $15. At a little more than a dollar a level, there is tremendous opportunity for a complete world of creative level design that you'll feel cheated out of.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Everybody Dance certainly isn't the greatest dance game on the planet and lacks depth in most of its features, but for the moment it's the best you'll do for a fun dance game on PS3 and makes for a decent party game, so if your looking to get groovy with the Move this is the way to go.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Lethal League joins the ranks of Rocket League as one of the PlayStation 4’s best multiplayer games. Underneath the simple control scheme lies a highly competitive game with a tremendous amount of depth. It’s a bit disappointing that there’s not a bit more to the package, but there’s enough mutators that players can make their own mode variants in order to entertain themselves. Overall, it’s a frantic game that’ll have you cursing and laughing at friends every time it’s launched.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 65 Critic Score
    Neptunia X Senran Kagura: Ninja Wars will appeal to longtime fans of either series, but outside of that it’s an average action-oriented JRPG plus visual novel that anyone can easily get the hang of. There’s plenty of titillating fanservice to go around, even if Sony insists on at least some of it being censored for the Western release. It’s a safe bet if you can’t get enough of Neptunia and the rest of the Goddesses or Asuka and the other shinobi, but otherwise there are more traditional games that are probably a better use of your time.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    With support for up to six players in multiplayer, the game is great for social gamers, yet with plenty of courses, character items, equipment and some challenging trophies to collect it is also great for completionists out there.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 85 Critic Score
    This isn’t the most elaborate or intense game in its space, but it’s the happiest to be there.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 65 Critic Score
    An intriguing horror experience with some neat ideas, but it doesn’t seem to have the muscle to make those ideas work as well as they could. It’s a short, concise experience, but it’s often interrupted by frustrating trial and error challenges that interrupt the flow with frequent checkpoint loading and rewatching cutscenes.

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