July 2016

July 29, 2016 Reviews au Courant

Review: Riptide GP: Renegade

Riptide GP: Renegade is a testament to how much great controls and a killer setting can add to an otherwise straight-forward racing game. Although formulaic, Vector Unit's newest game makes a splash b...
July 26, 2016 Reviews au Courant

Review: 8Days

From the throwback visuals to the way the way the story plays out, there's a lot to like about 8Days. Sadly, it's marred by a frustrating single-player experience that doesn't feature enough health pi...
July 25, 2016 Reviews au Courant

Review: DreamBreak

By taking the best elements from games like Another World and Flashback, DreamBreak is an intriguing adventure game with fluid animation and plenty of colorful locations to explore. It's also a captiv...
July 22, 2016 Reviews au Courant

Review: Maldita Castilla EX

Hey, thanks for watching our review. This is the end of another exciting week full of reviews. We started it off with a look at Exzeal, followed by Daydreamer: Awakened Edition and Adventure Lamp. I a...
July 20, 2016 Reviews au Courant

Review: Adventure Lamp

Adventure Lamp is a fun and engaging 2D platformer that is marred by frustrating technical issues and derivative challenges. It's enjoyable and competently made, but there's nothing here you haven't s...
July 19, 2016 Reviews au Courant

Review: Daydreamer: Awakened Edition

Inspired by titles like Gunstar Heroes and Alien Soldier, Daydreamer: Awakened Edition is a solid action game with a promising premise. Sadly, it's marred by an off-putting art design and boring weapo...
July 18, 2016 Reviews au Courant

Review: Exzeal

While not very original, Exzeal is a fitting end to Shooting Love 20XX. It's a mostly enjoyable shoot-em-up that gets the fundamentals right, but fails to give players a reason to care. The backgroun...
July 14, 2016 Reviews au Courant

Review: Chime Sharp

Although it's a little unforgiving at times and the best content is locked from the start, Chime Sharp is a worthy follow-up to an underrated puzzle game. I wish the developers would have done more to...
July 13, 2016 Reviews au Courant

Review: Type:Rider

Although a bit short and easy, Type:Rider takes players on an exciting journey through the history of typography. It's a fun little 2D platformer with a wide variety of stages and some genuinely fasci...
July 12, 2016 Reviews au Courant

Review: Super Mutant Alien Assault

While certainly enjoyable, Super Mutant Alien Assault comes up a bit short. The story mode won't take more than a couple hours, and replaying these stages over and over may or may not be something you...
July 11, 2016 Reviews au Courant

Review: Massive Cleavage vs. Zombies: Awesome Edition

Massive Cleavage vs. Zombies is a miserable experience with even worse gameplay. It takes an already simple genre and dumbs it down to the point of absurdity. You're better off playing literally any o...
July 11, 2016 Reviews au Courant

Review: Trizeal Remix

Degica returns with yet another classic shoot-em-up getting a first-time release outside of Japan. Trizeal Remix may be a solid action game with a cool transforming spaceship, but it doesn't offer muc...
July 07, 2016 Reviews au Courant

Review: Dynamite Fishing: World Games

Dynamite Fishing: World Games has a goofy premise that is fun for a few stages, but it quickly gets old when the repetition kicks in. While explosives should have made this fishing game more exciting,...
July 06, 2016 Reviews au Courant

Review: Energy Hook

I like the idea of merging grappling hooks and extreme sports, but Energy Hook goes about it in all the wrong ways. This type of game lives and dies based on the gameplay, and nothing about this game ...
July 05, 2016 Reviews au Courant

Review: Replica

Replica is a small yet compelling adventure game with a clever conceit. It's an inexpensive journey with a bunch of paths to take and endings to uncover. Unfortunately, its smallness left me wanting a...
July 05, 2016 Reviews au Courant

Review: Lost Sea

While I love the idea of island jumping and helping survivors, Lost Sea left me all wet. The gameplay is shallow and repetitive, something that is only made worse by the lengthy run time. It's also fr...
July 04, 2016 Reviews au Courant

Review: Pharaonic

Inspired by Dark Souls, Pharaonic is a punishingly difficult adventure game set in ancient Egypt. While the setup is compelling and the developer gets most of the basics right, this game is plagued by...