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Sonic Mania Plus
The physical version of Sonic Mania Plus includes some neat goodies for longtime Sonic and Sega fans. The small art book provides collectors with an insightful look at the visual design of Mania, while the reversible Genesis cover will pull at even the most hardened Sega kid’s heartstrings.
Jurassic World Evolution
The game also features a pretty serious pacing problem. You’ll quickly learn when you move to each new island that the go-to strategy is to make a fossil center, go back to a previous island (where you’re already rich since money doesn’t transfer) to pay for an expedition, then return...
MotoGP 18’s graphics are inconsistent. While everything looks crisp and fine in motion, stopping or crashing reveals the cracks in the graphics. The models are ugly, textures pop-in at random, racers and bikes will awkwardly ragdoll and clip through things, and obstacles are revealed to have no physical properties, meaning...
LEGO The Incredibles
The major exception to this is the inclusion of other Pixar characters, all of whom are unlocked by completing Crime Waves. From Toy Story’s Woody to Coco’s Miguel, every Pixar film is represented. If anything, including other Pixar characters showed that Lego The Incredibles would have worked better as a...
New Gundam Breaker is visually stunning when it’s not chugging at a consistent 15 fps. There are times when, in combat, the game will freeze for 3-5 seconds straight, whether playing offline or online. While a lot may be happening on-screen, it’s inexcusable to have such ridiculous drops and freezes...
Lumines Remastered
New to Lumines Remastered is a feature that Lumines creator Tetsuya Mizuguchi (Lumines, REZ, Every Extend Extra Extreme…) has been known to have in : “Trance Vibration.” The thought behind this is to immerse players into a trance by connecting multiple extra controllers (which pulse to the sounds of the...
Because most of Captain Spirit’s spirit (sorry) is experienced through discovering the narratives, any theories that popped up from playing the game will be featured in a future article. It’s more fun that way for everyone! All I can say is that Captain Spirit is absolutely worth your time, and...
Vampyr
When viewed in that light, the story is an enjoyable mystery that brings together medicine and science, vampire politics and zealous hunters, and a city suffering from ancient evils. Aside from a rushed romance and a sudden shift near the end, the story is good and has intriguing twists and...
Shaq Fu: A Legend Reborn
It’s ironic, given Shaq’s gargantuan statue, that the game is so short. At six stages with each being easily beaten under twenty minutes, you could easily finish this game in less than two hours. This works in the game’s favor considering the second half of the game is when it...
Agony
When you’re finished with the campaign there are two additional modes to sink your teeth into if you really want to be a masochist. The first is succubus mode that (as you can expect) allows you to play through the campaign as a succubus demon. It’s a bit of a...
Agony
When you’re finished with the campaign there are two additional modes to sink your teeth into if you really want to be a masochist. The first is succubus mode that (as you can expect) allows you to play through the campaign as a succubus demon. It’s a bit of a...
The game offers a sort of career mode to give players a good sense of some of the tactics that will be useful online. However, I wish the single player mode were more fleshed out. It’s totally serviceable, especially for helping me learn its concepts. But given its length, which...
