By far the game’s biggest problem: a crippling lack of invention. Riptide exhausts through repetition. Your flooded playground lacks the visual variety of the first game’s Banoi and missions never blossom into fresh concepts, merely escalating in difficulty and frustration.

Sadly, unless it manages to pick itself up pretty sharpish, Dead by Daylight may well be dead on arrival. [Sept 2017, p.91]

There's plenty of fun to be squeezed out of this despite numerous technical missteps, but unduly complacent, overly familiar mission design holds it back. [July 2016, p.82]

The gameplay is so repetitive and robotic. [May 2009, p.101]

It's not as if previous game adaptations have set the bar high, but this manages to fall below even those minimal standards. [Jan 2010, p.116]

Sadly, pretty looks and sweetly-edited shorts can't mask the lack of inspiration at its mechanical core. [Jan 2015, p.94]

As a whole, this is a step back for the series and an insult to those who know that Vita and Gotham deserve more. This is not the Batman game that you need.

A disappointment considering its potential. [Jan 2016, p.94]

A surefire way to induce nausea. [May 2012, p.107]

Barge-like handing and joyless backgrounds. Pass. [Jan 2009, p.104]

Playing as different Magic Knights, many of whom are more interesting than Asta, spices things up but it isn’t tantamount to bacon bits, and fights never graduate to anything impressive, not even when the J-Pop theme song kicks in. Much like a baked potato, it’s all perfectly serviceable but not very interesting unless you’re a carb fiend. [Issue#155, p.82]

Arcade fans might be willing to muddle through the comms breakdown, but while enjoyable, this is nothing to phone home about. [Jan 2016, p.94]

When your whole game is build around a mystifyingly unintuitive control mechanic, you're pretty much screwed from the outset. [Sept 2009, p.113]

From the drab visuals to the limp presentation, it screams 'mediocre' like a moped on a steep hill. [Dec 2007, p.114]

Playing as either character simply isn't much fun. [Jan 2008, p.114]

Re:Mind could have been an additional world, or a new chapter to shorten the wait until the next game. Instead it’s more of the same, often literally so. A missed opportunity. [Issue#173, p.96]

While SAOFB tries to shake up its formula, it does little to inject the game with a distinct identity. [Apr 2018, p.96]

An avalanche of mediocrity that you'd be insane to buy. [Mar 2010, p.116]

It’s occasionally clever, and has great art design, but isn’t nearly as smart as it thinks it is. [Issue#173, p.96]

ON its most basic level, IHRB does what it sets out to do, and any excuse to play couch co-op is appreciated, but it never stretches beyond just being basic. [Issue#151, p.84]

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

Too casual and limited to appeal to anyone but die-hard fans of The Dark Crystal and Final Fantasy Tactics, this tie-in lacks the depth and complexity of its retro references. [Issue#173, p.94]

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

The only decent fights and objectives that are there follow the main storyline like a stalker - everything else is just busywork filler. [July 2007, p.112]

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

It's a bit of a worry that the redheaded warrior sent out to save the world has been equipped with nothing but a thong and a set of spherical breasts. [Sept 2010, p.117]

Easily confused AI and faltering tech, however, mean it largely struggles to find its voice. [Aug 2016, p.88]

Almost every idea included here is a strong one - yet they've all been exectured terribly. A patch to slow the entire game down by 50% would immediately elevate that score. [Aug 2016, p.89]