Look, I didn't say they were fun objectives. [Feb 2010, p.104]

A neat little puzzle game. [Apr 2010, p.101]

It's exactly as fun as it sounds. [Feb 2010, p.105]

At least the fact that the alien looks like a sad, green little poop makes it visually amusing. [Feb 2010, p.105]

Part of the problem is that it's nearly impossible to make any sort of properly rude image on the tiny grid. Believe me, I tried. For hours. [June 2010, p.113]

If this was eye candy it would be the ancient fluffy Polo mint at the bottom of your grandma's lavender handbag. [June 2010, p.113]

Difficult to recommend. [July 2010, p.118]

As puzzle games set in Oregon go, it could have been a lot, lot worse. [Sept 2010, p.]

Handling can be over-responsive. [Sept 2010, p.119]

Strike City, challenge over. [Christmas 2010]

Mindless fun. [Christmas 2010]

Deserves to be strangled with its own entrails. [Christmas 2010]

Put it on the endangered list. [Christmas 2010]

The whole thing is so soulless you'll be praying to get hit by a meteor. [Issue#51, p.103]

It's a little repetitive...and patronisingly easy...but I guarantee that you'll smile the whole way through. [Issue#51, p.103]

The only upside is the soundtrack. [Issue#51, p103]

Think tower defense stripped down to the barest essentials. Think an empty screen an no sense of fun. [Issue#51, p.103]

It's just been done better and bigger a hundred times before. [Feb 2011, p.103]

There's only one major issue with this: unfortunately, it's your ship's handling. [Feb 2011, p.103]

I'd rather go to an actual bowling alley and risk getting attacked by an eight year old who's all hopped up on sugar. [Feb 2011, p.103]

It's really just a shooting gallery, but everything works. [Feb 2011, p.103]

The sound is also woeful. [Feb 2011, p.114]

Even daring manoeuvres feel somewhat unsatisfying when the only result is a nice detached four bed house popping up as a reward. [Jan 2011, p.115]

The action is hardcore. [Jan 2011, p.115]

Utterly pointless. [Jan 2011, p.118]

Almost painfully familiar to anyone who's ever seen a Diner Dash game. [Spring 2011, p.113]

It's actually fun, albeit about as memorable as a rich tea biscuit. [Spring 2011, p.113]

Most disappointing is the length of the game. It'll take anyone with opposable thumbs little over an hour to unlock all 17 songs. [Spring 2011, p.114]

An enjoyable electro-frisbee to the face. [Spring 2011, p.115]

The high speed also means the novelty is unlikely to last with this one, but then that's exactly why it's got such a throwaway price. [Apr 2011, p.101]

If, like the makers of this game, you think the world needs another bad Arkanoid clone, then you deserve a toe-punt in the spine. [Apr 2011, p.114]

Only buy this game if you like watching little blue things die. [May 2011, p.113]

A teeny bit repetitive. [May 2011, p.113]

The complexity ramps up as you're given more tools to use in your liquid logic tests, but sadly the excitement never does. [June 2011, p.111]

At just five levels, the price is a little cheeky, so only cough up if giant lizards in ballet pumps get you really hot. [June 2011, p.111]

Might lack depth, but it certainly isn't short of fire power. [July 2011, p.91]

Weirdly charming. [July 2011, p.91]

Leaves you to grope blindly for rhythm from memory alone. [Sept 2011, p.107]

It's beautifully designed, it's clever, and it's more addictive than picking scabs. [Sept 2011, p.107]

A botched remake. [Sept 2011, p.116]

There's no excuse for chess fans not to, ahem, 'check' it out. [Oct 2011, p.103]

It's a charming act of self-mutilation. [Oct 2011, p.103]

Hideous graphics. [Nov 2011, p.99]

God, it's so confusing. [Nov 2011, p.113]

A decent enough racer. [Nov 2011, p.113]

Reasonably playable. [Dec 2011, p.103]

It's a bit jerky and a bit slow. [Dec 2011, p.103]

It's addictive stuff. [Dec 2011, p.108]

Overpriced and shallow. [Christmas 2011, p.104]

The only game I've ever reviewed that I've awarded an extra point for having a nice soundtrack. [Christmas 2011, p.105]

Very difficult to complete. [Christmas 2011, p.105]

A glorious AK-47 blast form the past. [Christmas 2011, p.105]

The whole package is, of course, fugly and cheap. But whether it's surprisingly enjoyable dogsledding sections or physics gaffes that often see dead animals inadvertently do the splits, I had a smile on my face throughout.

It's lovely for a brief trip down memory lane. [Jan 2012, p.111]

A dire, one-dimensional bum-biscuit of a game. [Feb 2012, p.107]

Point and click in the other direction. [Feb 2012, p.112]

Perhaps when this arrives for Vita it'll feel less like a watered-down potion and play like a charm. [Feb 2012, p.113]

A happy surprise. [Feb 2012, p.115]

Fish are boring. Not sharks, obviously - they're great. [June 2012, p.107]

It's these impossibly dull missions that let Crash Time 4 down so severely. [June 2012, p.113]

It's a lot of distraction for not a lot of money. [July 2012, p.109]

The graphics are an indistinguishable explosion of vomit. [July 2012, p.109]

A crackling little puzzle game with a very slow learning curve. [July 2012, p.109]

Brain-munchingly dull. [Aug 2012, p.111]

Dull, ineffectual combat. [Aug 2012, p.111]

Surprisingly enjoyable. [Aug 2012, p.115]

Misjudged difficulty and cumbersome controls. [Aug 2012, p.115]

This is simply a hilarious misunderstanding of what a game should be. [Sept 2012, p.104]

This isn't an offensively bad game, merely a game with no purpose. [Sept 2012, p.115]

The graphics and gameplay are so simplistic that this could probably be run on a high-end calculator. [Oct 2012, p.119]

Judge Dread would be more accurate. [Oct 2012, p.117]

Buy this to guarantee a ruck...with your own sanity. [Nov 2012, p.97]

Essentially an account simulator (woo!) punctuated by the odd cannon-on-cannon scuffle. [Nov 2012, p.105]

Probably better from a nostalgic point of view. [Nov 2012, p.117]

Somewhat dull resource management. [Nov 2012, p.117]

A game as dead in the water as its protagonist's bullet-ridden backside. [Nov 2012, p.119]

Whimsically presented. [Dec 2012, p.111]

Compared to the rest of its shooty ilk, this is among the best of the bunch. [Dec 2012, p.111]

It's simple as hell. [Dec 2012, p.111]

As fresh today as when it first poked its head out of the soil. [Dec 2012, p.117]

An entertaining little diversion. [Christmas 2012, p.111]

Slightly dull. [Christmas 2012, p.111]

File this alongside Early Grey and Eastenders: things that some people apparently enjoy, but for reasons entirely beyond me. [Jan 2013, p.113]

Occasionally frustrating but strangely fun. [Jan 2013, p.113]

If you don't like this Mini, we can probably never be friends. [Jan 2013, p.113]

Dropping bombs is fiddly and inaccurate - and they do as much damage as releasing a blancmange from a plane's undercarriage. [Feb 2013, p.101]

Whichever way you play, you start seeing the same levels repeated within 15 minutes. [Feb 2013, p.105]

There's probably more fun to be had in sticking a packet of pink rhinestones to your DualShock while sipping a bottle of Tesco Value Cava. [Feb 2013, p.107]

Does exactly what it says on the tin. [Feb 2013, p.107]

A platformer in a supremely pixellated visual style. [Feb 2013, p.107]

Occasionally exasperating and more than a little repetitive, but it's certainly not hateful. [Feb 2013, p.107]

If you've never sampled the delights of the Shepard saga before, this is as essential as PS3 purchases come. [Feb 2013, p.114]

Repetition also puts a smear on the game's charm, turning initially ingenious tasks into a chore. [Feb 2013, p.117]

It's a bit dull, sure, but there's also something oddly soothing about it. [March 2013, p.117]

It's essentially an adorably reskinned version of Flash browser game Bubble Trouble, but it's fun nonetheless. [March 2013, p.117]

If you can overlook the presentation problems, there’s a clever game of strategy here that just about makes this a war worth enlisting for.

Repetitive and not exactly original. [Apr 2013, p.111]

More spider in the bath than friendly neighborhood superhero. [July 2013, p.100]