Travis Northup

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Travis Northup·Dec 15, 2023

Critic80/100

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Resident Evil 4 Remake VR Mode is just about as great as you’d expect, but the base game’s third-person perspective made Capcom’s job a lot harder.

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Travis Northup·Dec 8, 2023

Critic40/100

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A familiar co-op shooter with remarkably few surprises and surprisingly unremarkable gunplay.

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Travis Northup·Nov 1, 2023

Critic70/100

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Creative multiplayer modes make up for minigames that quickly become repetitive.

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Travis Northup·Oct 30, 2023

Critic60/100

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A very brief DLC that offers some laughs, but few other reasons to revisit Hell-A.

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Travis Northup·Oct 26, 2023

Critic40/100

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The Lord of the Rings: Return to Moria doesn’t give a ton of reasons to play it over its genre peers – and its poor combat, building, and mining mechanics make those other options sound even more appealing.

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Travis Northup·Oct 12, 2023

Critic80/100

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Lords of the Fallen is an awesome soulslike with a fantastic dual-realities premise, even when performance shortcomings and wimpy bosses crash the party.

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Travis Northup·Oct 2, 2023

Critic60/100

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High on Knife is a decent add-on for those searching for an excuse to jump back into Squanch Games’ gross world of naughty words and cartoon violence, but it doesn’t offer a whole lot of reasons to stick around for more than a couple of hours. With a disappointingly short questline and an ill-advised focus on some of the weaker members of the High on Life cast, it doesn’t come close to reaching the same highs (pun intended) as it did last year. There are certainly some decent laughs to be had, and more of this shamelessly idiotic world is by no means a bad thing, but there just isn’t enough here for me to be able to enthusiastically recommend anyone clear even this small amount of time on their busy gaming schedule.

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Travis Northup·Sep 19, 2023

Critic70/100

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A strong start, even if the vault is a bit bare at the moment.

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Travis Northup·Sep 13, 2023

Critic80/100

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An honest-to-goodness superb soulslike, and that’s no lie.

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Travis Northup·Aug 29, 2023

Critic80/100

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Trine 5: A Clockwork Conspiracy sequel is a superb puzzle platformer that sticks close to the series’ playbook.

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Travis Northup·Aug 17, 2023

Critic80/100

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Blasphemous 2 is an orthodox Metroidvania with style, creepy bosses, and a gloriously gross return to Cvstodia.

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Travis Northup·Aug 14, 2023

Critic60/100

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A less asymmetrical take on the asymmetrical horror genre that offers a few entertaining, technically challenged hours of fun.

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Travis Northup·Jul 20, 2023

Critic90/100

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Where Remnant: From The Ashes was a strong first draft, Remnant 2 is a revolutionary sequel and a sterling manifesto for the looter-shooter soulslike.

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Travis Northup·Jul 13, 2023

Critic20/100

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Testament: The Order of High Human is a bland, frustrating, and buggy fantasy adventure that would have been a bad four-hour Skyrim knockoff. At 40 hours, it’s hard to bear.

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Travis Northup·Jul 5, 2023

Critic40/100

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Everybody 1-2-Switch is a paltry, unoriginal party game. Bringing it out is like inviting the fun police to bust up your shindig.