It’s no surprise that a movie-licensed game has turned out rubbish, again. There is no excuse for gameplay this dated. Avoid, unless you’re feeling very nostalgic.

A fundamentally flawed and boring RPG, Enchanted Arms might be steeped in Japanese charm but without any sense of fun or involvement, there's no reason to buy this. [Issue # 11, p.84]

Monotonous. [Issue#23, p.97]

It's also insanely easy and offers no lasting challenge. [Issue 27, p.117]

Offers little more than the free trial vision can provide. [Issue#93, p.88]

One day someone will nail this series and make a game that does its mystery characteristics justice, but we're stuck waiting until then. [Issue#66, p.91]

A contender for one of the dirtiest games of the year, Payback is two parts uninspired garbage and three parts loading screen. [Issue 28, p.98]

No attempt at making its single-player outing more interesting than exhibition matches also stinks. [Issue#23, p.97]

If you must play one, go back a few games. [Issue#48, p.87]

What should be exhilarating, fast-paced and exciting turns out to be boring, samey and unbalanced to the point of being broken. [Issue#68, p.89]

Poor controls. [Issue#92, p.88]

Madness. [Issue#23, p.97]

A good idea in principle, and one that could have made for a great game, but its execution is so poor that it ends up looking like a complete mess. [Issue#75, p.76]

Some promising ideas, but little to no delivery on any of them. [Issue#49, p.90]

It's an improvement on staring out the window. [Issue#91, p.78]

Painfully dull gameplay. [Issue#75, p.82]

It's looking a bit on the tired side. Great music though. [Issue#25, p.118]

Simply too boring to even consider a rental. [Issue#75, p.84]

So technical that it might as well be a manual. [Issue#75, p.85]

The inherent ropey nature of this tie-in can't be ignored. [Issue#75, p.85]

An impossible sell when you repress the action, screw the controls and forget to include AI. [Issue#91, p.88]

At least you don't use the right analogue stick to aim. [Issue#36, p.114]

Couldn't feel much more dated if it tried. [Issue#76, p.102]

When the camera decides to point at nothing its problems are inexcusable. [Issue#53, p.94]

A few good missions ultimately wrecked by lame and/or pointless missions. [Issue#20, p.90]

A truly rubbish shooter that lies deep in Gears' shadow, pillaging it for set pieces, designs and mechanics with zero subtlety. [Issue#64, p.89]

Virtually nothing works as it should, and what does owes an enormous debt to a few evergreen classics. Disappointing. [Issue 23, p.79]

It ranges from boring and stupid to totally incomprehensible, and neither end of the spectrum amounts to any fun at all. [Issue#80, p.87]