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For 604 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 39% higher than the average critic
  • 18% same as the average critic
  • 43% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 1 point lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Game review score: 74
Highest review score: 98 Persona 5 Royal
Lowest review score: 26 Demolish & Build Classic
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 312 out of 604
  2. Mixed: 271 out of 604
  3. Negative: 21 out of 604
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    • 62 Critic Score
    Rendering Ranger: R2 [Rewind]
    Although the run-and-gun stages can grow tedious, Rendering Ranger: R² [Rewind] attempts to redeem itself with enjoyable shoot ‘em up sections. Unless you’re a devoted retro enthusiast, stick with back-to-back sessions of Contra and Gradius.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    FUBUKI ~ zero in on Holoearth ~ HOLOLIVE ALTERNATIVE
    Fubuki: Zero in on Holoearth – Hololive Alternative is an above-average action-platformer elevated by feverish sword slashing, great looking pixel-art and an abundance of on-screen adversaries. Just be aware, it’s shorter than one of the Vtuber’s streams.
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    • 69 Critic Score
    Kemono Heroes
    If you’re the type of player who’s easily seduced by a screenful of sprites, Kemono Heroes appears inviting. But a few errant design decisions restrain the enjoyment of this coop-accommodating platformer.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 86 Critic Score
    Lunar Remastered Collection
    LUNAR Remastered Collection bundles two titles that raised the bar for interactive storytelling, incorporating everything from voice performances to full motion video cutscenes. Although both Silver Star and Eternal Blue provide absorbing adventures more than two decades on, it’s hard not to long for supplementals that document the development of these pivotal works.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    Tiny Garden
    Tiny Garden’s ambitions for a relaxed agronomy are undermined by repetition, the lack of controller support, and instability. If you’re lucky, you might be able to get one tranquil afternoon of distraction but not much more.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 78 Critic Score
    All in Abyss: Judge the Fake
    Like the Vegas strip, influences are pervasive in All in Abyss. From Texas Hold ‘em against CPU opponents, comical conversations, power-ups to earn, mysteries to uncover, and even some opponent fatalities, Judge the Fake’s mixture of mechanics is gratifying – at least when it’s not being too grindy.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 79 Critic Score
    Battlefield Waltz
    Battlefield Waltz’s lead isn’t the stereotypical unremarkable heroine. Instead, Lan is burdened with responsibility and handles it all with strong-willed conscientiousness. As such, it’s easy to see why the visual novel’s bachelors would find her irresistible. Likely, you will, too.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 68 Critic Score
    Grit & Valor: 1949
    Grit and Valor – 1949 pares the real-time strategy genre down to the fundamentals. The results are taut battles between your customized mechs and waves of enemies and bosses. But progression stems from the technical advantage of collected parts more than tactical insights.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 73 Critic Score
    Dark Deity 2
    From a unified visual style to maps that will test your mettle, Dark Deity 2’s improvements are plentiful. Sure, the dialog can come uncomfortably close to sounding like made-for-streaming filler. But when you’re using the carefully-cultivated abilities of your party members to trounce a dominant foe, these moments can be forgiven.
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    • 76 Critic Score
    Breakout Beyond
    Undoubtedly, Choice Provisions has studied the Breakout clones, from Arkanoid to Shatter. Breakout Beyond bundles several of their modernization, resulting in a golden mean of brick-busting amusement.
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    • 71 Critic Score
    Virballs
    Habitually, Virballs channels the playfulness of a PlayStation 2-era action shooter. Sure, environments get recycled and mixing ammo types in the heat of battle is clumsy, but there’s the persistent push to see what challenges the next planet brings.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Assault Suit Leynos 2 Saturn Tribute
    Assault Suit Leynos 2 level of difficulty remains lofty, as you and a small squad of mechs confronts a vast army of enemies across seven side-scrolling stages. The Switch port offers a few ways to tame the original game’s near-impenetrability while English localization lets a new audience enjoy the battle-hardened banter of your fellow pilots.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 73 Critic Score
    Atomfall
    With its lack of hand-holding and middling combat, Atomfall isn’t for everyone. But if you’re craving an adventure that supplies plenty of autonomy and challenges your sense of trust, Rebellion’s latest might be looking into.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 83 Critic Score
    Atelier Yumia: The Alchemist of Memories & The Envisioned Land
    Atelier Yumia: The Alchemist of Memories & the Envisioned Land crafts another high point for Gust’s beloved series. From streamlined and speedy combat, a shift toward open-world exploration, and a thoroughly optimized engine, this is a role-playing adventure that shouldn’t be missed by fans of the genre.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 72 Critic Score
    Kamikaze Lassplanes
    Kamikaze Lassplanes' visual novel elements have you romancing a pair of plane-gals, while it’s shoot ‘em segments send you through bullet-filled skies. Neither element is faultless, but the combination of words and weapons is an entertaining niche.
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    • 75 Critic Score
    Destino Indomable
    With its satirical take on telenovels, Destino Indomable offers some outrageous laughs, as you ad-lib your way through five episodes in RCK Games and Megalixir Games’ visual novel. Let’s just hope that the lead character shows more expression if Indomable returns for another season.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 73 Critic Score
    Rise of the Ronin
    At present, the PC version of Rise of the Ronin isn’t nearly as optimized as it should be, divulging a rather wobbly framerate even on beefier hardware. That’s a shame, because underneath those performance faults, there’s a lot to like about the game. Hopefully, additional post-launch patches allow the responsive combat, spirited storytelling, and sumptuous setting to shine.
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    • 78 Critic Score
    Ever 17 - The Out of Infinity and Never 7 - The End of Infinity Double Pack
    Never 7 and Ever 17 aren’t just wonderfully pulpy novels that manage to successfully mix romance, science-fiction, and doomsday scenarios. They also plumb their character’s psyches, revealing realistic vulnerabilities. But sadly, the package is marred by one of the sloppiest localizations in recent memory that undermines each branching tale.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 46 Critic Score
    Dead Dragons
    Dead Dragons has most of the fundamentals of a role-playing game but lacks the ambition that elevates the genre’s better efforts.
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    • 71 Critic Score
    Recall: Empty Wishes
    Recall: Empty Wishes’ exploration of grief might not bring jump scares. Instead, explores some of the recesses of the human mind, offering an engrossing examination of loss and occasionally dysfunction.
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    • 45 Critic Score
    Accolade Sports Collection
    Accolade’s sports games strove to deliver television-style perspectives. While that innovation nudged the genre forward, gameplay in the Sports Collection often feels archaic. Given the minimal curation, this is for hardcore collectors only.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 71 Critic Score
    X-Out: Resurfaced
    While many shooters deliver the sensation of being a formidable war machine, Resurfaced channels the tension of a being on a nerve-wracking bombing run. From the floating mines on the surface, regiments of fast-moving opponents that race through narrow passageways, to the army of cannons that line every surface, adversity is ever-present.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 77 Critic Score
    METAL SUITS: Counter-attack
    Pleasingly, METAL SUITS: Counter-attack absolutely shines on portable PCs like the Steam Deck or ROG Ally, extending solid sixty frame-per-second-performance even when there’s a chain reaction of screen-shaking explosions. Hopefully, Eggtart can temper the game’s sporadic difficulty spikes and prohibits clusters of enemies from bunching up.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 78 Critic Score
    Stories from Sol: The Gun-Dog
    Stories from Sol: The Gun-Dog is a largely triumphant tribute to last-century science fiction. Referencing everything from Gundam to Alien, expect to spend your time on the space vessel interacting with a colorful cast and delving into plotline that sets things up for subsequent follow-ups. In space, sequels are compulsory, it seems.
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    • 80 Critic Score
    Under Defeat
    Elevated by the option for a twin-stick control method and a power-up system which resists convolution, Under Defeat HD makes a fine showing on the Nintendo Switch. Factor in multiple soundtracks and modes and this has a bit more longevity than many of its projectile-dodging peers.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 68 Critic Score
    MACROSS -Shooting Insight-
    Shooting Insight’s four kinds of shooting are mostly tolerable. But the inability to freely shift modes and the rather dull enemy attack patterns will make for muted enjoyment by hardcore Macross fans.
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    • 90 Critic Score
    Shujinkou
    Inaugural efforts can often be unrealistically ambitious. But miraculously, Shujinkou nails nearly every single one of its elevated goals. From engrossing dungeon crawling, a cast that remains compelling across an 80-hour storyline, to a capability for teaching you spoken and written Japanese, a new watermark for indie RPGs has been established.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Eternal Strands
    Eternal Strands is filled with great ideas. But sporadically, the game’s execution and exposition can’t match these lofty ambitions. At best, the game is a thermodynamic playground that lets you experiment with frost and flame. But once you’ve absorbed its principles (and the weaknesses of the game’s bosses), the game’s appeal might dissolve like ice in an inferno.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 72 Critic Score
    Big Helmet Heroes
    Big Helmet Heroes isn’t going to dethrone Castle Crashers as the wildest, weapon-wielding brawler. But this effort is certainly better than many competitors. With a patch or two to remedy the occasional crash, Exalted Studios’ might just land a unexpected hit.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 78 Critic Score
    The Legend of Heroes: Trails through Daybreak II
    In many three-act works, the middle chapter is often devoted to character development. That’s often the case with The Legend of Heroes: Trails Through Daybreak II, the second installment in Falcom’s Calvard arc. While a core plot device can make a portion of the game feel like a filler, plenty of empathy with the main cast is cultivated here. Coupled with improvements to the hybrid real time/turn-based battles, Daybreak II provides momentum for the third game, but little reason for future replay.
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