There’s a reason this is under £1, and it’s not a good one. It’s shovelware that soft locks you if you make a wrong move. Deleted and removed from Home Screen in under 3 min.
Good game. Movement and combat is clean and satisfying and it has simple mechanics so you don’t have to memorise a manual. Overall it’s imaginative and polished. Couple of early bugs appear to have been patched out. Recommended.
Controls are not intuitive on switch. The gameplay is fiddly, laborious and feels like doing homework as you slog your way through the boring tutorial.
Not normally a big rpg fan but wanted a fishing game and blasted through this is no time, apart from I’m currently too weak to beat the final boss. The fishing is simple but engaging and you can do as much of it as you want. It gets challenging as the fish get stronger so there’s an element of grinding required to catch the right fish and use their scales to upgrade your rods and hooks. Simple story and everything moves quickly, unless you just want to hang out fishing. Chill game with a decent challenge.
As soon as you work out the synergies this is peak. Just wish there were a few more unlockable symbols. Apart from that it’s a constant dopamine factory.
Sometimes I just want a simple game with a few solid mechanics where I don’t have to memorise millions of complex inputs, and this is that game. It has three simple attacks that you use strategically to clear rooms, with upgrades available through the course of the run. Addictive.
This is a shame because it could have been great, but it’s ended up slightly less than ok. We’re all used to grappling hooks in games, but although the hook is the core mechanic here it doesn’t feel satisfying to use. But worst of all is that when you die, unlike most other games where you respawn instantly, you’re waiting almost 10 seconds on a loading screen here. Unfortunately this has put me off continuing with the game.
The roll and slow mo mechanics elevate this above a lot of similar platform hack and slash games. Towards the end it becomes a bit puzzle like, in that you need to work out a specific order of operations for each room by trial and error - you can just blast your way through. But it never got too tedious for me. Overall, a great game
Great game. I’m over roguelikes and was looking for a bullet hell where you can actually complete sections and make progress, and this game does that well.
I’d like to give this a higher score because the presentation is good and in theory it should be a good quality time killer, but… aiming feels slippery because the sensitivity of the controls is too high. You can’t nudge your aim slightly because the cursor goes shooting in the direction you press. It also wouldn’t hurt to be able to lock the cursor to a location with zl. Also, being able to replay levels to improve your score and get a gold star would make it feel more rewarding. Would be good if the control issues in particular were fixed.
Feels authentic as a 90s panel de pon style game. Kinda thing you end up playing 500 rounds of late night with your bestie. Slight mark down for the controls not being super intuitive, but I found the quick swipe configuration felt most natural
Awesome game. It’s a bunch of Celeste, n++, super meat boy influences but also reminds me of an 80s nes game. Nice physics, tight controls, solid level design. Saw it on hidden gems 2022 on Nintendo life and they’re right, although it’s tough and I wanted the game and it’s devs to die in a horrible accident a few times.
Pretty fun game for a chill 10 minute unwind before bed. Only completed the first 3 worlds so far, but not hard at all even though I’m horrible at maths. There’s a bit of variety as there’s a couple of bosses levels per world, which are a race to complete the level against the NCP while sending each other junk tiles. The presentation is also nice enough. Giving it an 8 is pretty generous, but for the simple type of game it is it’s decent.
Picked up the complete edition on the eshop sale for about £1.80. It’s a simple game, but it’s kept my attention for longer than dawn of the monsters that I got at the same time for 20x the price. It could do with touch controls, but for what it is it’s a ton of mindless, addictive fun.
After my initial, less favourable, review I’m gonna be a bit more lenient with this one. For what it is, the gameplay is pretty solid. If you come in expecting a fast paced streets of rage 4 you may be disappointed, as this has a slower, more lumbering feel too it. The levels can also be a bit samey. However, in co-op it can be pretty fun to bulldoze your way through the stages, and the bosses present a nice challenge. I’m just hoping they patch out a couple of the issues I had (like the arm things sometimes not spawning when you have to kill the egg, making it impossible to beat).
A friend pressured everyone into getting this so we could play local multiplayer. It’s good fun as a mindless shooter, but wtf is up with the gyro controls? The game decides how you hold your switch/pro controller so you’re looking forward, which is at some mad angle. You can’t calibrate it yourself or use the sticks to realign, that we could find anyway. If I’m wrong please let me know but that bs really let’s the game down, so can’t go above an average 7
Unfortunately this is kinda boring. It’s not the kind of game you can pick up and play with friends because the controls take too much getting used to. It might have been a classic in the 90s but times move on and it gets old quick.
Not bad, but I’ve got other similar games I prefer playing. That might be because personally the roguelike approach doesn’t really appeal to me and I prefer making progress rather than keep starting again each time. When I started playing it reminded me of grindstone, which I then went back to and put in more time than I did with this game. Also for 2 player, I’d much rather play similar games included with NSO, like panel de pon, which is much more fun - and that’s not opinion, that’s scientific fact.
Great version of Tetris. I’ve had some issues with online - mainly not finding any players until I restart the game, and periods of repeated crashing. Also, playing in the TV the game itself takes up such a small amount of the screen that it strains the **** out of your eyes. But I the end it’s a fun, compulsive and fresh version **** game.
It’s fun once you get into it but when you compare it to other Mario side games, like Mario kart, it’s not as polished and lacks the AAA feel you expect. At release it felt like they didn’t have it ready in time and shipped it out unfinished. Hopefully the free DLC will keep coming so it ends up feeling worthy of being a full price Nintendo release.
I initially gave this a 7 when I was fresh from playing Celeste, super meat boy, the end is nigh and slime San, mainly because it felt less complex in comparison. But I’ve revisited it lately and maybe I was being unfair comparing it to those games, so I’m now giving it an 8 because it’s fun, challenging (if you want to collect all the sushi), and looks awesome.
Not gonna lie, took me a while to get into this one. It didn’t grab me in the way I expected it to after hearing all the hype. But after pushing through that stage I fully appreciate the singular vision of the gameplay and got to the top of the mountain. Now it’s something I revisit to get more strawberries, do b-sides etc and can see myself playing on and off in the future. It can be aggravating AF when you’re stuck on a hard section, and some parts feel insurmountable at the time. Some of the b-sides are just boringly difficult which prevent me from giving it a perfect 10, but I appreciate the level design and physics of the main game too much to score it any lower.
I suppose there’s a kind of compulsion to keep playing a aggravatingly difficult game like this for a while, but I also suppose that for most people that compulsion wears off pretty quick. It’s shape shifting levels means that unlike other hard games, you don’t have the opportunity to learn and master each section, so don’t have the same sense of achievement. I got this on sale at the same time as towerfall ascension, and that kinda put puss in perspective - because it’s clear which game I’ll keep coming back to. And it’s not puss.
This ones getting a solid 10 from me because I’m just having such a great time playing it. I get that some people want more from a £50 game, like a full open world map. And I liked being able to move around objects and monsters to take photos for the Hyrule compendium, but this is Pokémon snap and whilst it could have been bigger with more Pokémon for £50, it’s doing a great job at being a true sequel to the original and I just love playing it :D
I think this one might drop scores based on comparisons with smb, but it’s a solid hardcore platformer in its own right with original ideas and challenges. My one issue, and I’ve heard the arguments on both sides, is the fact there’s no level select. Having to go back to the beginning of a whole section to get the tumours you missed is just a ball ache. And it’s happened twice now where I exit to the map screen and accidentally click the section I’m on rather than backing out of the map, and instead of going back to where you left off it takes you right back to the beginning of the section. I know the devs wanted you to git gud and play it through it again and again to get all the secrets, but I don’t have much time to play games and after investing ages getting through some screens I just want to complete a section rather than do it all again. It just makes me rage quit and not touch the game for a few months. At least you should have been able to go back to specific screens for missing tumours after competing the game.
My experience with this game was: first half hour - it’s a lame animal crossing I don’t like it. Hours 1-5 - I can’t stop playing, I need to be stopped. Hour 6 - it’s a boring, repetitive grind get it out of my sight. And there my time in Littlewood stopped.
So this game seems like it was made with a very niche audience in mind. You basically choose a task, like shoot a sheep, then go off to shoot a sheep. Thing is, you’re on a huge map with very few sheep. And you better not run, because any sheep within about a mile will hear and run away. So get used to walking, very slowly, through an empty map in the hope you see a sheep. Then creep up to it slowly and shoot it, without gyro controls, if it doesn’t run away first, which it probably will. For some reason I feel like playing it every now and again, but I imagine most people would be bored out of their mind. It’s the slowest game I’ve ever played and it looks pretty shoddy. Some of the grass textures levitate and if there’s small branch with a few leaves you’re not walking through it, you’re walking around it because it blocks your path like a brick wall. Do I recommend it? Not really
Having way much more fun with this than I thought I would. Got it on impulse because I like games where you collect things and am getting impatient waiting for Pokémon snap. It’s quite simple to learn even though the localisation into English is hilarious (the word GET flashes up on screen when you catch a fish?!), the process of catching a fish is fun (kind of a battle system) and the scenery and fish look good. You basically have to collect all the fish, about 180, across a bunch of different areas to fill up your fish book (basically a fish Pokédex). It’s fairly simple but some fish are trickier to catch and require specific lures and rods. You have to reel them in so the line doesn’t go too slack or too tight whilst keeping an eye on how the fish is behaving. More points for heavier fish. It’s very Nintendo and probably a bit simple for serious fishing enthusiasts, but perfect for a relaxing and occasionally challenging collectathon. Never thought I’d like a fishing game but this is fun.
I’d always seen this on the eshop and ignored it because I thought it was for 3 year olds. Turns out it’s not and it’s actually a solid 2D platformer, in an old school kind of way. I wouldn’t quite call it masocore but it’s decently challenging and there’s a few sections I had to play a bunch of times to beat. It’s a bit like a chill, slower paced super meat boy. It’s also refreshing there’s no timer so it doesn’t turn into yet another frustrating speed run.
It’s like an entry level Super Meat Boy but slower paced. It’s generally ok, but after the fluidity of SMB it feels a bit sluggish. I also found some of the level design questionable, like putting a collectible beyond the goal (the damsel’s hair) so that it’s hard not to accidentally hit the goal before clearing the level 100%. A final death trap is one thing, but tricking you into clearing a level and having to start over is just silly. Tbh I’m probably less impressed with it because I’m fresh from playing Slime San, which is a spectacular addition to the genre.
I’ve never seen time move so slow as when you’re trying to stay alive for the countdown in this game. Not a lot to describe here because what you get is what you see in the trailer. It’s kinda fun, but gets kinda old kinda quick.
Must be something wrong with me because unlike almost everyone else I don’t get why this game is such a big deal. It’s ok, but has nothing other retro platformers don’t - Nice pixel art? Check. Secrets? Check - personally I had a lot more fun with The Messenger. Ultimately, this game is frequently frustrating as hell. Like you make a perfectly good jump but an off-screen enemy flies in and bounces you back into a pit. Oh great, back to the last checkpoint - AGAIN.
There are some moments of pure Nintendo perfection, particularly during the first half of the game. But after a while the collecting tasks becomes a slog and you dread getting thrown into the ring for yet another tedious battle. Ultimately it doesn’t hit hard enough as either a platformer or an RPG.
I’m finding this game compulsive and frustrating in equal measure. It looks nice enough and the simplicity of rolling and bouncing feels quite free, but accuracy of movement is not easy when you can’t judge distance. I saw this was previously a free VR game and was probably designed to be played with depth of field. Sometimes when I’m trying to get a key I’m just dancing round it without a clue how I’m not hitting it. I’ve cleared about 8 levels and whilst the exploration levels get a bit grindy, the true torture comes with the time trials which are punishing AF, especially if your going for gold medals. Overall it’s fun if you can bear it but I can imagine rage quiting soon.
Tried to get into it but it’s too slow and boring. Thought it was going to be more like a pvp slay the spire, but creeping slowly across the board and waiting for your enemy play their damn turn is just exhausting.
Solid platforming. Wasn’t sure from the trailer if it was gonna feel a bit slow compared to the masocore games I’ve been playing lately, but it was imaginative, fun and a decent challenge. The cut scenes were funny too.
It’s ok. The graphics are nice and the gameplay is passable but it feels strangely sterile and doesn’t have a lot of character. It also lacks depth compared to other card games I’ve played.
Judging by the overall score I’m in a minority here, but I found the game slow and aggravating. Chasing the coins, not seeing the whole map and sluggish movement just removed what I like about tower defence games. Plus the load times.. THE LOAD TIMES! WHY?!
I read a few reviews that said this was a disgraceful mess ****, and I completely agree. The controls are ridiculously convoluted and the word jank could have been invented for the process of landing a move. However it’s keeping me moderately entertained since I started playing an hour or so ago, although also quite angry.
This is a really fun game that I’ve been paying for nearly 2 years. Unlike other reviewers I’ve never got lag except when my connection is down and you can play fully without spending a penny (dime, my US fam ;)) Recommended :)
Great game for quick sessions with a complete run taking about 15 min. It’s like a light hearted slay the spire, but still requires strategy and has a bunch of characters with different mechanics to get good at. Sometimes the chance element dooms a run, especially with certain characters (I’m looking at you witch and robot). But overall I’m having a great time playing and recommend it.
Story mode was mostly fun, but much shorter than I expected. After pressing on with the mission and planning to go back later to collect fruit I’d left behind, the game suddenly ended after a frustrating final level being chased by that gold blob. Then it wasn’t an option to go back to explore the previous levels in more detail, which ****. However, my favourite part of the game was always the collecting side challenges, so I guess I’ll make do with them. Other thoughts were that it looked great but the controls were finicky when trying to select certain colour pikmin, especially when you dismiss them but they gather too close together and you end up touching them by accident. A good game but stops short of being great due to some dodgy controls and the shortness of the story mode.
I’m giving this 10/10 not because it’s like a Mario Odyssey or BotW 10/10, but because for what it is - a retro-style, hardcore platformer - it completely hits the nail on the head. It has the authentic feel of old Nintendo games but with modern attributes like quick re-spawns. The levels are fun, it’s hard but fair and not too frustrating (except for a couple of the bosses), and has classic AVGN humour and references. It’s not very long but for the price is reasonable and I had a good time playing. I’m now gonna petition for the nerd to be a DLC fighter in Smash Ultimate :D
Didn’t get on with this initially due to the ambiguity of it all. The lack of instructions or explanations left me running in circles not knowing what I was doing. But after getting my head around the pickups and power ups I’ve been having a good time with it. The fighting is good and it’s decently challenging. The graphics are nice although sometimes it’s hard to tell what’s background and what’s floor.
The fighting mechanics and agility of the character are fun to use, but it’s so manic that playing for extended periods would probably drive you mad. I mostly tap dash and mash the 2 main attacks because there’s no time to think about anything apart from clearing the enemies in order of threat. Not sure how long it will hold my interest because it’s more one note than games like BoI, but it’s fun for short bursts between other less stressful games.
Not quite up there with super meat boy or slime san - the levels are simpler in design and the move set is less dynamic - but it’s a solid masocore platformer that I enjoy coming back to now and again.
There’s something irritating about not being able to retry the level you just died on until it’s randomly generated again. You don’t get the immersion you feel from really learning a level and perfecting your route and timings like you do in games like n++ or love/kuso.
