Jeff Goldenberg > Games

"Great story, great graphics (except for the characters’ hair - wtf?!), great voice acting, phenomenal soundtrack. Now the bad: very short game, mostly on rails, very few puzzles. The game should have leveraged the pretty cool dimension switching more. With multiple places to branch the story based on responses to certain situations, I suppose the game is meant to be replayed multiple times trying different responses to see the story unfold in different ways."

"Really excellent graphics, even in 2026! Very good selection of cars. Interesting selection of unusual international tracks. Good casual racing game. Not a sim, not arcade racing, fits nicely in the middle. Fun for a short while, but gets dull pretty quick. Sony shutdown all the online features and some of the local features long ago."

"I am a huge fan of Remedy games. The original Alan Wake is probably my favorite game of all time. This game, while being a nice piece of art (as the game itself will tell you multiple times) is definitely the worst thing Remedy has ever put out. It’s not terrible, but it really isn’t very good. Convoluted story, extremely limited and dated gameplay were not redeemed by the overbearing artistic vision the creators employed."

"All-around great game. Presentation is fantastic. Combines light platforming, collecting, some puzzle solving, and secrets upon secrets upon secrets to discover."

"RE4 has always been the best game in the series, and this remake takes it to an even higher level. Better graphics, better audio, improved story, and greatly improved gameplay and controls make this a must-play, whether you have played or completed a previous version of the game or not."

"Overall, it’s a decent game, but like the single game released for PS4, it’s a very short and low-challenge affair compared to the rest of the series. This series peaked on PS3 and has been coasting on fumes since."

"First off, this game is huge. Well over a hundred hours of gameplay without counting the expansion, if you explore the whole world and do the side quests. Story is great, graphics are great, soundtrack is phenomenal. Gameplay expands upon the original game and tweaks some of what came before. Combat is familiar, but at the same time vastly different. Expect to change the methods you used in the first game for best results. Unfortunately, even in January 2026, the game is pretty buggy. Sometimes the bugs get in the way of your progress and you have to backtrack a bit or reload a save, but sometimes the bugs work in your favor and help you easily get past what should be a challenge. For that reason only, I cannot award 5 stars. Otherwise, a superb game."

"The game presentation is excellent but this is by far the least compelling entry in the series. The characters are just uninteresting."

"This is a low effort ripoff of Burnout and nowhere near as good. That being said, it isn’t completely terrible and if you can’t play Burnout Takedown or Burnout Revenge, this game will do."

"On other platforms, notably PC, this isn’t too bad. On PS3, it’s horrible. Controls are so bad I gave up after 30 minutes."

"Very decent puzzle game with a very common threadbare sci-fi story thrown in. For an indie game, I found the production value to be very high. My only complaint is this: there are 8 unique puzzle mechanics. There are 50 puzzles. Two of the mechanics are only used in 4 puzzles, and those are optional hidden ones! I wish they would have done more with those mechanics."

"The presentation is slick and original but the gameplay is minimal."

"The overall premise of the game is nothing new. Make your way through a ridiculously huge mansion by solving physics-based and platforming puzzles. Each wing of the mansion exists in a dimension where certain physical aspects work differently than in the real world and can be controlled. For example, you can alter the weight and density of objects as well as slow time. The puzzles are quite good, escalating smoothly in difficulty. The story is related by an unseen character, your uncle who is trapped in one of the dimensions, fantastically voiced by John DeLancie. Through DLC, collectibles and time challenges, the game actually has significant replay value once you’ve solved all the puzzles in the main game."

"This is an extremely overrated game that seems to appear on all of the “best PS3 games ever” and “best hidden gems of all time” lists. The only positives I could find are the nice graphics, great voice acting and somewhat decent story. The negatives are all the common issues I have with most Japanese games: Long un-skippable cutscenes, terrible hijacked camera angles at exactly the right/wrong moment to hinder your combat/action, very little variance in game play. The formula is: long cut scene, walk around a little bit, separate the characters, swarm battle, walk around a bit, swarm battle, boss battle, reunite the characters, next locale/chapter. The platforming in the game is a joke because you cannot fail. Just follow the path to get to the next swarm battle. My 3 star rating is generous, it’s really a 2.5 star game."

"This game is terrible. If you actually like or know anything about actual bowling, avoid this game at all costs. The same developers went on to make PBA Bowling on other platforms, which is a much better game in all regards."