Well Played

• PS4
• 7.5 / 10
• Australie

• SWITCH
• 9 / 10
• Australie

If you’ve got a taste for Atlus’ brand of unique, abstract JRPGs and never played Tokyo Mirage Sessions #FE on the Wii U, this Encore performance is a must-see. Even if you have, there are some pretty compelling reasons to come back a second time, especially because the Switch is such a great way to experience the game. This one is a real crowd-pleaser.

• PS4
• 4 / 10
• Australie

In a genre where all you need to do to be even average is to copy what everyone else is doing, Furious Racing somehow still fails at doing that. It just isn’t fun. It really begs the question: Why go to the effort of making a game with the Garfield license, in a certain genre, if you’re not going to use said license or genre in any kind of interesting way? Was there a Garfield Kart-sized hole in 2019’s release slate? I’d argue no.

• PS4
• 8 / 10
• Australie

• PC
• 9 / 10
• Australie

• PS4
• 8 / 10
• Australie

• PS4
• 8 / 10
• Australie

• PS4
• 8 / 10
• Australie

• PC
• 7.5 / 10
• Australie

• SWITCH
• 8.7 / 10
• Australie

The versatility of playstyles in this game is one of its greatest strengths, making it accessible and appealing to many kinds of gamers with different experience levels. The characters and writing are funny, diverse and fitting with the London setting. If you are a collectibles fiend in particular or partial to a good visual story this is a game for you. The ending to the story was very twisty and a pleasantly unexpected surprise. I really hope the older games in the series will also come to Switch one day as I would happily play more of this series

• PS4
• 7 / 10
• Australie

I’m deathly allergic to bees and yet after having played Bee Simulator I would do absolutely anything for the little guys. This is a game made by a small team on a small budget and it shows; but there’s an undeniably wholesome and endearing experience here that is better than the sum of its parts.

• PS4
• 8 / 10
• Australie

Afterparty is a wild ride through Hell that stands on the strength of its superbly-written characters and world. The simple, dialogue-based gameplay definitely won’t be for everyone and the technical issues are an unfortunate disappointment, but if you can deal with that then this is definitely a trip worth taking. Whether you inevitably make it out or not.

• SWITCH
• 7 / 10
• Australie

• PC
• 8 / 10
• Australie

Darkest Dungeon may be bleak, but WARSAW makes its inspiration look like a teddy bear’s picnic. There’s a dream game pseudo-nicheness to the whole idea; somebody at Pixilated Milk thought ‘I want to do Darkest Dungeon but about the Warsaw Uprising’ and scratched the right backs to make it happen. And this reviewer is glad that it did, because it turned out to be a real good game about a story that must continue to be told to the world.

• PS4
• 6 / 10
• Australie

Monkey King: Hero is Back is…fine. I’d say it’s aggressively average. Thing is, for a (very late) movie tie-in aimed at a younger audience, that’s pretty good. It’s got its fair share of problems, but it does have heart, and the more games based on Journey to the West the better. I just can’t see it gelling with anyone but the target demographic, and even those people are probably going to wish it was just that little bit better.

• PS4
• 8 / 10
• Australie

• PC
• 9 / 10
• Australie

Playing through Gibbous – A Cthulhu Adventure made me realise how much I miss this type of adventure game. It does a fantastic job of taking the world of Lovecraft and turning it into something unique and memorable, thanks to a gorgeous art style and well-written characters. If you’ve got a point-and-click itch that needs scratching, then Gibbous may be the remedy you’ve been waiting for.

• SWITCH
• 6.9 / 10
• Australie

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