Game Of The Month

L.A. Noire is a frustrating experience despite its unique premise and good facial animations.

Okami HD is a bloated, excessively long, and frustrating experience with easy combat, confusing story, annoying dialogue, and technical issues like low frame rates and poor camera controls.

Kingdom Hearts 2 improved over the first but still deeply flawed, suffering from a convoluted and childish story, repetitive level design, and frustrating progression mechanics, despite its enhanced combat and movement.

El Shaddai: Ascension of the Metatron HD Remaster is a confusing, frustrating, and largely unenjoyable game with poor story, bland characters, weak combat, and frustrating platforming, despite some attempts at unique art and gameplay elements.

Dark Envoy is a poorly optimized, narratively bland game with uninspired character design and frustrating mechanics, salvaged only slightly by its gear system and initial combat depth, which are ultimately undermined by bad map design and repetitive enemy encounters.

Kingdom Hearts 1.5 Final Mix has some redeeming qualities, but overall a frustrating and flawed experience.

Sand Land offers some absurd humor and a fun bike, but its bad voice acting, unnecessary RPG mechanics, empty open world, and weak combat make it a mostly frustrating and forgettable experience.

Spider-Man delivers thrilling web-swinging and cinematic moments but is hampered by repetitive side content, predictable storytelling, and a disappointing DLC.

Robocop: Rogue City surprised many with its enjoyable combat and nostalgic PS2-era feel, its significant flaws in open-world design, repetitive and tedious side quests, frequent crashes, and jarring narrative/technical issues ultimately left a mixed, and largely negative, impression of the game as a whole.

The pervasive technical issues, poor open-world design, and frustrating progression mechanics significantly detracted from the overall experience.