Zentendo's Scores

  • Games
For 230 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 64% higher than the average critic
  • 5% same as the average critic
  • 31% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 2.7 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Game review score: 72
Highest review score: 100 Professor Layton and the Curious Village
Lowest review score: 20 Frogger Returns
Score distribution:
  1. Negative: 12 out of 230
230 game reviews
    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Wii owners should consider themselves lucky that Homestarrunner.com and Tell Tale games have given the Wii a bizzare yet awesome game series. It is well worth the investment and can be enjoyed by just about anyone without being dumbed down to the lowest common denominator. If you are a long time fan of the cartoon, consider it a 9.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Wild West Guns is best looked at as perhaps a good first attempt. It has good settings and sound to suck you in to the Wild West theme, but the actual gameplay just falls short. The controls are great and responsive, but the game itself is just too repetitive and gets boring quickly. If more variety had been added then perhaps a higher score could have been given.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    A short single-player mode makes the 1,000 Wii Points price tag a little on the high side, but the multi-player mode makes up for it. A solid start into what will hopefully be a long lasting franchise.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Under the Knife 2 is a triumphant return for the Trauma Center franchise to the handheld that made it famous in the first place. While it’s a bit too familiar for its own good, and a bunch of features from the previous games are missing, the excellent game design, larger campaign and significantly improved story make this a great title. Atlus is officially 4-for-4 with this unique series.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    If you were thinking about getting this game as an attempt to delve into the world of turn-based strategy RPG’s, I strongly suggest you go buy the first Tactics Advance instead because you will probably have more fun with it, and it will probably be cheaper. Or better yet, go pick up a Fire Emblem game.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    This is the kind of game that makes Wiiware a worthwhile feature, and shows that good hardcore games can be made for the system in any size.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Soul Bubbles is unique puzzle title in the same vein as Katamari Damacy and Loco Roco. As with those titles, Soul Bubbles is meant to be played in short bursts rather then long stretches as the gameplay gets tiresome after playing to long. If you enjoyed navigating through Loco Roco, or guiding mario through bubbles in Super Mario Galaxy then this is a puzzle game right up your alley.
    • 46 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    The start of this promising franchise was so good that this game pales in comparison. It’s not the worst movie to game tie-in in recent years -- The Golden Compass has to take that spot -- but it’s certainly not far off.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Bakushow is really as good as the people that it’s played with; fortunately, I played it with some great people. It feels a little incomplete in places, however, and there’s a lot of room for change if a second is to come out. The lack of colours and a keyboard is criminal, but the game is great fun overall as long as being spoon-fed isn’t something you enjoy.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The title offers up everything a puzzle fan could expect and want.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Does it beat going out and just jogging a few laps, or going for a swim, or even going to the gym? Of course not. However, what Wii Fit brings is a fun way to get back into being active. The exercises display a good mastery over the Balance Board and a great way to show off the possibilities of the peripheral.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Despite its flaws, My Life as a King serves as a wonderful bridge title to bring Final Fantasy fans into the sim genre (and gamers at large, for that matter), blending strategy into the mix to add ample amounts of depth to the proceedings.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    A stellar start to the WiiWare's catalog, LostWinds sports great production values, charming atmosphere and delivers a calm, relaxing experience that makes good use of the Wii remote's pointer controls.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    While Defend Your Castle is fairly simple and repetitive in and of itself, it is also highly addicting and quite fun with friends in short bursts of time.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    No game is perfect, but that said, this is as close as a non-Nintendo game has come in a long while. It's most definitely worth the purchase, as it'll keep you entertained for many, many hours.
    • 44 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Overall, the Iron Man title on the Wii lacked the spark that the film had; however, it’s a huge step up from last year's A2M film franchise adaptation, known as The Golden Compass. That said, if players are looking for a film to game adaptation that actually reflects the film, they should look elsewhere.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Mario Kart Wii features an impressive online experience, but falls a bit short in the offline content.
    • 88 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    It ultimately suffers from trying too hard to be innovative and forgets the important part of being user friendly.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Dedicated, hardcore strategy buffs will likely find it rewarding to work their minds through the seemingly impossible odds, but gamers at large will probably just find it to be frustrating.
    • 90 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Clover and Ready at Dawn have given the Wii a beautiful and epic journey. One of the best games on the system that any gamer with a Wii needs to own. Okami is a masterpiece that is not likely to be duplicated and deserves to be in everyone's gaming library.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    The title feels like a throwback to some of the older platforming games from the SNES era; however, the length of the title it’s biggest flaw.
    • 50 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Baroque is a marmite game: you’ll either love it or hate it. It’s a piece of interactive fiction genius and although the gameplay can be a little poor at times, the entire package is great and is well worth picking up if you enjoy a hard, dungeon crawler challenge.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Opoona is one of those once-a-generation type games -- for many hardcore RPG fans this will be a bit of a letdown, but for others it could easily be heightened to the level of the Mother series if another game does come out.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    This game took everything I loved about Harvest Moon: Friends of Mineral Town, upgraded it slightly and included fun touch screen controls to allow actual interaction with the animals.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    If you love action games, you can't do much better than Ninja Gaiden on Nintendo’s portable system.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    The mission mode falls flat due to its repetition -- it takes too long to unlock rewards and the missions are too samey to be very pleasurable.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Unlike Nintendo, SEGA have merely rehashed a collection of loved characters into a poor Virtua Tennis game.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    The game is not very difficult, and as soon as players grasp the standard controls they should have no problem progressing through the game. Lost in Blue 3 does not deviate much from experience of the first two games. The game still provides a relatively fun experience, but nothing we haven’t seen before.
    • 35 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    George of the Jungle may be aimed at young children, and their requirements may be different from that of a videogame reviewer, but this is just nothing more than sloppy.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Still too deep and complex for a casual audience, but not deep enough to satisfy the other end of the spectrum, which is atypical of a Square-Enix title or any game with the name Final Fantasy in it.

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