HIGH The visual style
LOW The crashes, bugs and glitches
WTF The infinitude of rare resources
Tag: Buggy
The Outer Worlds: Spacer’s Choice Edition (PS5) Review
HIGH Eventually (I assume?) this will be a fine release.
LOW It sure as s*** ain’t right now.
WTF Putting the level cap to 99 in this game is the definition of arbitrary and capricious.
Xel Review
HIGH Gorgeous visuals. Likable characters.
LOW Buggy and glitchy. Inadequate save system. Too much backtracking.
WTF How did I fall through the map more than once?
This Is Not A Review: Phoenix Point Behemoth Edition
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: Phoenix Point: Behemoth Edition, developed and published by Snapshot Games.
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.
Anthem Review
An Anthem? Or A Swan Song?
HIGH The world design is excessively
vertical and clearly built for flying.
LOW Literally every second spent not
flying.
WTF Are empty, buggy releases like this really the norm now?