Vandal's Scores

  • Games
For 6,582 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 69% higher than the average critic
  • 7% same as the average critic
  • 24% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 1.7 points higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Game review score: 77
Highest review score: 100 Bayonetta 2
Lowest review score: 10 Make it indie!
Score distribution:
6586 game reviews
    • 80 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Promenade offers a charming and accessible platforming experience, drawing heavily from classic inspirations like Super Mario Odyssey, yet struggles to innovate beyond its references. While its simplistic mechanics are engaging and its progression smooth, it falls short in offering a truly unique identity. Despite its shortcomings, it's a delightful entry point for newcomers to the genre or a pleasant diversion for platforming enthusiasts.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Pacific Drive blends survival, horror, and driving elements effectively, creating a tense and immersive experience. While its meticulous car management system adds depth, it can also make gameplay repetitive at times. Overall, it's a compelling adventure offering a constant sense of tension and survival in hostile environments.
    • 44 Metascore
    • 45 Critic Score
    The game disappoints with its lack of content and subpar combat mechanics, failing to capture the essence of the anime despite its appealing character roster. Additionally, its online-focused approach limits its longevity, making it a hard sell even for die-hard fans.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 68 Critic Score
    A Void Hope presents a dystopian love story with nods to Carpenter and Cronenberg, offering an intriguing premise but failing to fully deliver on its potential. Despite its beautiful pixel art and captivating soundtrack, the gameplay mechanics feel underdeveloped, resulting in missed opportunities for deeper engagement and storytelling. Overall, it's an enjoyable experience with moderate expectations, reminiscent of Hotline Miami's cinematic and abstract qualities, but it leaves a desire for more depth and execution in its gameplay.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 85 Critic Score
    Despite its modest production values, Under Night In-Birth II Sys:Celes delivers deep and engaging 2D fighting gameplay, with a diverse roster of characters and robust online features. However, its lack of additional modes and unremarkable presentation may deter some players.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Foamstars attempts to capture the essence of Splatoon with its colorful design and unique mechanics but falls short due to lackluster execution and an aggressive microtransaction system. While it offers some enjoyable moments, especially in cooperative squad mode, its gameplay loop feels frustrating and its pay-to-win elements detract from the overall experience.
    • 90 Metascore
    • 85 Critic Score
    Available now on Nintendo Switch, it provides an accessible yet profound storytelling experience that evolves over 25 years, offering diverse choices and thought-provoking scenarios. With its captivating narrative and engaging gameplay, Pentiment stands as a must-play title, now reaching a wider audience beyond its initial release.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Quotation forthcoming.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Skull & Bones offers engaging naval combat and exploration, but falls short in other areas compared to its predecessor, Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag. While it lacks depth in its on-land gameplay and suffers from some unpolished elements, it still provides enjoyable adventures on the high seas with its ship customization and combat mechanics.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    In this post-apocalyptic world filled with charm, My Time at Sandrock offers a delightful blend of social simulation, farming management, and crafting, though its intricate crafting systems may deter some players. Despite its humble visuals and somewhat outdated design, it presents a vast and enjoyable adventure, making it one of the genre's finest offerings.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Ultros ingeniously blends roguelike and metroidvania elements, offering a unique progression system centered around cycles. While its combat falls short of being memorable, the game shines with its innovative mechanics, visually stunning design, and around 11 hours of engaging gameplay, making it a must-try for fans of the genre.
    • 92 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    The second entry in the remake trilogy is so good that it left us wondering: “how are they going to make something better for the final episode?” Narrative, gameplay, content… everything is at the highest level, and it managed to keep us engaged, interested in the story and having fun for more than 100 hours.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Sleeper hit Anomaly Agent delivers a humorous cyberpunk action platformer experience with polished art design, accessible combat mechanics, and enjoyable synthwave soundtrack, although it suffers from occasional repetitiveness, especially in boss battles.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 65 Critic Score
    A visual novel that offers an interesting story with some shocking and grotesque moments, but fails to deliver a satisfying gameplay experience, as it tries to mix RPG and adventure elements that end up being repetitive, boring, and frustrating. The exploration in 2D is more of an obstacle than helpful, and the survival moments are too dependent on luck and trial and error.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Aspyr brings back the original adventures of Lara Croft with a respectful remastering that improves the graphics and controls, but also has some flaws and inconsistencies. The gameplay remains faithful to the essence of these classics, with a focus on exploration and puzzles that is rare to find nowadays, despite the outdated shooting mechanics and some quality of life issues in the menus.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    A good remake of a somewhat underrated GBA classic of puzzles and platforms that brings interesting novelties. It is still a very fun and well-designed game, with new worlds and modes. The new audiovisual section has suited it very well. It lacks the scoring system of the original and if you only want to reach the credits, it can be short.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 85 Critic Score
    A hilarious and addictive online cooperative shooter that improves the original game with a new perspective, more content, and cross-play. It offers pure and simple fun with friends, a great gameplay and strategic touch, and a good graphical and sound presentation. It could use more variety in enemies, biomes, and missions, but it is one of the best PvE games of the season.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 78 Critic Score
    Don’t Nod delivers a powerful narrative adventure with complex decisions, a dark and fascinating setting, and a beautiful and complicated love story between two ghost hunters, but the combat and exploration are less polished and more repetitive than they should be, drawing too much from God of War.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    A free adventure that tries to recover the narrative essence of Silent Hill, with the collaboration of two veterans of the saga: Masahiro Ito and Akira Yamaoka. It has some great moments and ideas, but also some flaws in its design and execution, and it will inevitably be compared to the unforgettable P.T.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 79 Critic Score
    Rocksteady delivers a fun and frantic third-person shooter with a great story that shines for its characters, but falls short between the action adventure and the looter shooter. It has a deep and satisfying gameplay once mastered, but a repetitive mission design, disappointing boss fights and a constant interruption typical of this kind of games.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    A fun action RPG that will appeal to fans of hack’n slash games with a PlatinumGames flavor, that convinces with its multiplayer and variety of characters, but falls short in the ambition of its main story.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 87 Critic Score
    A great remake that updates the Atlus classic to modern times with a new and stylish audiovisual section and with a multitude of interesting novelties and improvements. It is not the definitive version of this wonderful RPG, but it is the best and most enjoyable one, with an unforgettable story and characters, although the “dungeon crawling” in the Tartarus tower may not connect equally well with everyone.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 78 Critic Score
    A collection of three brilliant visual novels of investigation and deduction, full of extras and well adapted to modern platforms, that unfortunately lacks Spanish translation.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    A game inspired by the classics of the 90s, with a great atmosphere, level design, and exploration, but also with some flaws, such as an uneven combat, some obtuse design choices, and a questionable save system. It is a very old-school experience, for better and for worse, that can captivate and frustrate in equal measure.
    • 90 Metascore
    • 95 Critic Score
    Tekken 8 is the most fun Tekken to play, improves the online and the content for a single player. It is the best launch possible to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the saga. It has a great gameplay, a varied and solid roster, a spectacular story mode, and a lot of modes and customization options. It also has some flaws, such as the lack of some classic characters, the uneven quality of the scenarios, or the absence of a Tekken Force mode or similar.
    • 89 Metascore
    • 92 Critic Score
    A huge adventure, almost infinite in terms of activities, with an improved combat system and a nostalgic look at the almost 20 years that Kiryu has accompanied us. The story is full of epic and emotional moments, but sometimes it loses its pace among so many hours of gameplay. Some graphical details from the past generation and the New Game+ mode not available in all versions are the main drawbacks of this great game.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    The Descent is a walking simulator of exploration and horror that fails to deliver a satisfying experience due to its simplistic and repetitive gameplay, its poor optimization, and its uninteresting story that is mostly told through notes. The only positive aspects are its good graphics and its tense sound design, but they are not enough to save this disappointing adventure.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    The new platformer from demagog studio, creators of Golf Club: Nostalgia, draws from the classics to expand a curious and visually attractive post-apocalyptic universe, although its gameplay can clumsy, frustrating, and repetitive, and its narrative is less ingenious than its predecessor. It still manages to convey nostalgia and sympathy while exploring its beautiful 2D apocalyptic scenarios.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 72 Critic Score
    Raccoo Venture is a platform game starring a raccoon that must recover the magical relics of his grandfather. It is well designed, and clearly influenced by classics from the 90s like Super Mario 64 or Crash Bandicoot3. Some of the most fun levels are ridiculously short, and the combat is lacking in action and variety. The puzzles are challenging and the levels are balanced, but the game does not stand out in any aspect.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    A fantastic work of renovation of two games that have almost 20 years behind them to turn them into an adventure that could have been released in 2024: the three-dimensional reconstruction of the scenarios, the detail of the environments, the new design of the characters and the re-recording sound transform it into a current game.

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