Game Reviews
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The Best Games of 2022
I never posted this list back then, so here we are two years late. At least I don’t have to worry about recency bias anymore. I’m limiting this to the top 6 games instead of the usual top 10 because that was the cutoff for games that scored at least 90%, and that seems like…
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Speed Crew Review – Well Oiled Crew
Speed Crew is an Overcooked-style game that’s about repairing race cars instead of cooking dishes. It arguably has even less to do with how a car is actually repaired than Overcooked has to do with how kitchens are run, but it’s still nice to get a game that has a different setting than what’s normal…
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Frogun Encore Review – An Unwelcome Encore
You might have expected a sequel with a name like Encore to be just a small DLC that adds a few levels without really changing anything. Frogun Encore is not that. Although it is shorter than the original game, it costs only a little less and introduces significant changes to how the game plays. Rather…
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Frogun Review – Slurp Shooter
Frogun is a retro-style puzzle platformer where the central gimmick is your Yoshi-esque gun. Your gun can latch on to something at a distance and pull you towards it if the target is big or it towards you if the target is small. Small targets are then held and can be fired at something else.…
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Quilts and Cats of Calico Review – Over Embellished
I love the board game of Calico. I can’t say that I’m very good at it, but it’s still very satisfying to try to lay out 22 tiles in a way that satisfies as many of the goals as possible. There are tons of different ways to score points, but your different options mostly don’t…
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Duck Detective Review – Fowl Play
Duck Detective: The Secret Salami is a parody noir game in which you are a duck trying to solve the mystery of who stole lunch from the refrigerator in a bus company office. The most obvious comparison is Frog Detective, but this is slightly more serious both in tone and in terms of the puzzles…
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Persona 5 Tactica Repaint Your Heart Review – Artist’s Block
Persona 5 Tactica Repaint Your Heart is the day 1 DLC expansion to P5T. The good news is that, unlike a lot of day 1 DLC, it doesn’t feel like something they sliced out of the main game. This is a fully standalone story with characters who don’t otherwise appear at all and you could…
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Persona 5 Tactica Review – A Slow Buildup
Persona 5 Tactica is an odd game because of what it isn’t. Atlus already had a tactical RPG series in the Devil Survivor games, and those games were already not far from being Persona tactics games. Considering that Persona Q was just Etrian Odyssey rethemed, I’d have expected this to establish a pattern and be…
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Dragon’s Dogma 2 Review – Soaring Highs, Crushing Lows
Dragon’s Dogma 2 is, like Mirror’s Edge: Catalyst, a sequel to a personally beloved game that I never thought I’d get. But where Catalyst failed because it largely abandoned what made the original great, this game has the opposite problem. It is deeply faithful to the 2012 original. Almost the entire cast of monsters, the…
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Bang Average Football Review – Above the Mean
Bang Average Football is a retro arcade soccer/football game that’s mostly focused on the RPG-esque story mode. This follows a relatively standard plot about taking the worst team in the bottom league all the way to the top, but with more focus on the management side than you typically get from indie games. It doesn’t…