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Mahokenshi is an inventive little deck-builder that lets you build some powerful combos that help you live out your magical samurai fantasies. On the other hand, while it definitely doused my curiosity about the genre in kerosene, it didn’t light my jimmies on fire.

The unforgiving gameplay and repetitious action will leave some utterly appalled, but the radiant cast of reprobates, silly mini-games, baffling dialogue, and shameless commitment to the bit results in one of the most bewildering, hypnotic releases in some time. Simply put: Wanted: Dead is a fucking train wreck, and you better get your ticket punched.

Theatrhythm Final Bar Line will reward you with a truly brilliant experience. It’s a very good rhythm game on its own, but it also acts as a lovely companion piece to the Final Fantasy franchise at large.

Impressive efforts with a few noticeable problems holding them back. Won't astound everyone, but is worth your time and cash.

Solid and definitely has an audience. There could be some hard-to-ignore faults, but the experience is fun.

It’s a complimentary piece to Backbone, which can stand before or beside it but shouldn’t be set apart from it. However, in context, it’s a terrific addition to the series. While it isn’t as compelling or fully featured as the first act of Backbone, it is a much more solid experience. The series, as it is currently, is a lot stronger with the inclusion of Tails: The Backbone Preludes. It’s a great collection of fiction.

SpongeBob SquarePants: The Cosmic Shake is an astoundingly good game. There is so much creativity packed into its seven different worlds that I could not stop playing it over the past weekend because I was too excited to see what was next. This is, without a doubt, the best SpongeBob game I’ve ever played, and I hope Purple Lamp Studios keeps the keys to the license for years to come.

Solid and definitely has an audience. There could be some hard-to-ignore faults, but the experience is fun.

Dread Templar could generally be described entirely as “far away from being unpleasant.” From beginning to end, it’s a reasonably well-designed experience, and it never gets to be too much of a slog. It just never really finds a unique identity. There’s no real hook that makes it stand out or will keep you coming back.

This is a game that has moved me in ways no other has, but no matter how much it gave me to think about, when it was over, the only thought in my head was, “Is that all there is?”