HIGH Watching a guard hop on top of a murderous turnip, smacking it in the face until it died.
LOW A wealth of bugs and port-related issues plague this release.
WTF Watching my minions continually fail to target their assigned objects.
HIGH The search for a passport. Just wait.
LOW Fiddling with the miserable torpedo targeting during a heated battle.
WTF The final area’s bizarre fixation on tetrahedrons.
HIGH These characters are pretty great.
LOW Again with the missable, poorly signposted side quests!
WTF Black hair? I thought it was dark blue all this time…
Released just one week after the game’s launch, Resident Evil 7’s “Banned Footage, Volume 1” collection offers three completely different styles of minigame designed to extend the life of this new entry in Capcom’s long-running series.
HIGH The ‘airship’ level.
LOW Spike tunnels that require impossibly steady hands.
WTF Wait, I’ve got a sprint button?
HIGH Exploring the bioluminescent garden.
LOW A few badly-placed checkpoints.
WTF The existential “bad” ending.
HIGH Forgetting they were only virtual tables.
LOW Tracking issues coming out of nowhere.
WTF Literally ducking to avoid zombie reach.
HIGH The sharply-paced opening sequence and its climactic cutscene.
LOW Competing in the awful, rubber-banded street races.
WTF Cops won’t reliably go after me for shooting a guy, but if I dent a cop car, they’ll gun me down. Just like real life!
Welcome to This Is Not A Review. In these articles we discuss general impressions, ideas and thoughts on any given game, but as the title implies, it’s not a review. Instead, it’s an exercise in offering a quick recommendation (or dismissal) after spending enough time to grasp the ideas and gameplay of a thing without necessarily playing it from A to Z.
The subject of this installment: Punch Club: Dark Fist for 3DS, developed by Lazy Bear Games and published by tinyBuild.
HIGH Boindil’s impromptu minecart massacre.
LOW The battle system is frequently a confusing mess.
WTF Auto-pathing that makes characters occasionally leap to their deaths.
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