You Can’t Stop The Rain
HIGH An exquisite narrative with well-designed characters.
LOW The Director’s Cut perhaps clears up too much in the ending?
WTF Hey where is my post-credits scene?!
Kathy Rain Director’s Cut Review
Author: Damiano Gerli
Gloomhaven Review
Raiding Dungeons, From Physical To Digital
HIGH Successfully learning the basics!
LOW Spending an hour clearing a dungeon, only to be killed by the last enemy.
WTF Online play is quite troublesome.
Zool Redimensioned Review
Bad News For Hedgehogs!
HIGH It’s somewhat nice to see Zool back in his original form…
LOW …which reminds me it wasn’t that great to start with.
WTF The bleeding banana will haunt my dreams for years to come.
Recompile Review
Criticize Me, Recompile Me
HIGH A stylish, polygonal TRON-like aesthetic.
LOW Infuriating level design.
WTF Having to wait a full 10 seconds to respawn after each death.
Blade Of Darkness Review
Let Your Blade Shine On
HIGH A mostly solid, deep combat system.
LOW Repetitive enemies and level design.
WTF Punching a goblin to death with another goblin’s arm.
Grotto Review
A Real Platonic Journey
HIGH A strong emotional narrative that wastes no time.
LOW Struggling to make one’s answers understood.
WTF Finding out only at the end about the command to insta-travel.
Dice Legacy Review
Die Die Die, My Darling
HIGH An interesting take on city-building gameplay with roguelike features.
LOW It might take a while to get the various mechanics down.
WTF Don’t get distracted or your city might burn to the ground!
This Is Not A Review: CLT
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: CLT, developed and published by notagamestudio.
Inscryption Review
Play Your Cards Right
HIGH Finally getting the right deck to defeat the magician.
LOW Not being able to shake the magician’s hand.
WTF Threatening my files is not cool.
World’s End Club Review
And I Feel… Ever So Slightly Not Fine
HIGH Dealing with the slightly unhinged Pielope.
LOW Repetitive gameplay centered around simple puzzles.
WTF Hey where is my Pielope?