Recent reviews by Cynical

Wait for a patch. Right now, the DLC area performance is terrible, borderline unplayable; it's a complete slideshow in every field area.

This game isn't at all what it's advertised as being; it's Portal, except you get softlocked and your save is unplayable if you don't do things the exact way the developers expected.

Barely even qualifies as a videogame -- there's literally nothing more than this than "see how fast you can react to an incoming attack tell." All of the gameplay of an online reaction time tester.

A complete waste of time and money, Lords of the Fallen is what people who don't play the Souls games think the Souls games are like.

This game (along with Eliza and Molek-Syntez) has me wishing Zachtronics had called it quits a few years before they did. On the minigames on offer here, the only one that's remotely fun is 20CFC; the rest are well behind the flash games that Zach was doing pre-Spacechem.

It pains me to thumb down this game, because there's so much potential here, but as it stands, it's a complete mess. It boils down to a combination of bad tracks plus completely screwed up in-air controls. Every time there's a long jump whether you make it or not is entirely down to chance, and the tracks love having long jumps with gravity pulling in completely random directions. The devs tried to band-aid over this with a really dumb "Prince of Persia: Sands of Time"-style rewind mechanic, which is itself disastrous in a racing game, because it's completely flow-ruining. It's unfortunate that the flying controls are so screwed up and take the whole package down with them, because the on-track racing is amazing (and a strict upgrade from the first Redout), but as it stands, it's just a mess.

Excellent dungeon crawler in the vein of the King's Field series.

Rather surprised by the reception this game is getting -- "Lies of P" is the game that people who don't like Souls claim that Souls is, a nearly completely linear action game with minibosses every three rooms, challenge entirely concentrated in brutal boss fights, and an underbaked combat system. While the Souls games are exploration-based RPGs first, action games second, which lets them get away with some dubious decisions in the details of their melee combat, Lies of P strips them down to nothing *but* the melee combat, so can be afforded no such leniency. There's nearly no reason for anyone to play this mess of a game, which misses the point of multiple entire genres while trying to claim their legacy for itself.

Battle Circuit alone is worth it -- that game is a blast.

After getting to grips with F. Norris (instead of Gal, the default character), my opinion on this has changed a lot -- while Gal still suffers from a bad case of "really stubby arms" and is awkward to control in general, F. Norris makes this game a ton of fun. It's true that a lot of this game is really derivative, but it's at least a wonderfully kinetic take on a known formula. Streets of Rage 4, The Ninja Saviors, and some of the Capcom brawlers available on Steam are better, but Fight 'N Rage is still a great quick blast of action, if you're using a character that suits you well (which for me is *not* Gal or Ricardo).