HIGH Taking down the maximum number of enemies with card plays left.
LOW Redrawing an entire hand of unusable heroics… only to get new unusable heroics.
WTF Why are there so many kinds of currency you can’t buy?
Jarrod’s Top Ten of 2021
I don’t know if 2021 (as a year) was better or worse than 2020 — they were both pretty rough! — but I find myself feeling a tad more optimistic than I did before. We could hem and haw about it until the cows come home, but I do believe that ’21 was a much better year for new releases in ’20, so I don’t feel the need to go overly snarky and make my list entirely out of remasters. This was a great year for games, and I want to recognize the wide variety of brand-new, original releases that captivated me throughout the year.
Mass Effect: Legendary Edition Review
A Space Opera For The Ages
HIGH One of the best stories in gaming.
LOW Weak boss fights across the trilogy.
WTF That giant robot in Mass Effect 2.
So… Videogames! Ep. 233
Mass Effect Freebies – Live Now!
To help celebrate the impending release of the Mass Effect Legendary Edition, the good people over at BioWare have created some freebies for fans to enjoy.
Calibrations! The Changes To Mass Effect: Legendary Edition
It’s rare that we post news here at GameCritics, but once in a while something pops up that I’m sure our readers will want to know about. So, in preparation for the upcoming Mass Effect: Legendary Edition, we’re sharing the below info (in a condensed fashion) which was provided to us by EA/Bioware PR.
Element Space Review
MassCom X-Effect
HIGH The game mostly works!
LOW It mostly works.
WTF Sure, don’t explain what those meters do until the end of the game.
Gay-us Ex: Three Great Examples Of Gay Game Characters
Partway through Deus Ex: Mankind Divided, protagonist Adam Jensen is tasked with investigating his boss’s apartment. What he discovers is pleasantly surprising in terms of positive gay representation in games.
This piece contains minor spoilers for Deus Ex: Mankind Divided
Mass Effect 3: Citadel Review
A Night to Remember
HIGH Finally bringing the entire team on a mission.
LOW Dr. Chakwas was a no-show.
WTF Finding Kasumi going through Shep's panty drawer.
You can’t always CYOA
Something interesting I noticed this year was a trend of push-back against "choice" games in which the player did not get to control every outcome. The two biggest examples which spring to mind are, of course, The Walking Dead and Mass Effect 3.
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