The Witcher 2 is a wolf in sheep’s clothing, ready to bite your hand off as soon as you get near it. Here is a guy at the end of the previous game with no gear, no skills, and as many as 8 dudes killing him at once. It’s hard to figure out how to beat any that are not the lowest. Very few of your options are open to you without looking at the manual, and the tutorial screens are tiny and last half a second. You will have to either look at the manual or go through your keyboard hitting all the buttons just to figure out where all the screens are. (I is inventory and M is map, which I suppose one could guess).

So the game is hard, you might’ve heard that. It’s not a fun hard, either. READ MORE

Sometimes these PopCap-y games get a little old. They’re either too easy or they’re simply another form of Tetris Zen, putting blocks here, switching jewels or shapes there, removing a stick or inserting a ball. Occasionally there are, ahem, gems in titles like Plants vs. Zombies or Puzzle Quest in which you are making some sort of progress, there is a definite end goal in sight and you will feel like you will have successfully consumed a game. It was a great ride and now is an appropriate time to stop, a lesson Runespell: Overture has taken to heart. READ MORE

The original Puzzle Agent was a surprise to a lot of gamers who expected just another traditional Telltale adventure title. What we got was a unique mix of Professor Layton-style puzzles with clever writing and a rather intriguing story. However, many questions were left unanswered by the very end of the first game, leaving plenty of room open for a sequel. READ MORE

As we played through the final episode of Back to the Future‘s first season, OUTATIME, we couldn’t help but be disappointed. After all, we came through the first four episodes, and followed Marty through his various adventures in locations both familiar and new. This last part, we thought, should be better than this.

Then, though, the game kept going. READ MORE