By Nelson Schneider - 09/01/14 at 04:57 PM CT
Welcome back to another installment of the MeltedJoystick Review Round-Up. Here’s what our staff has reviewed since last time:
Nelson’s Reviews:
The Summer quarter allowed the MeltedJoystick crew to get back on track a bit more with our multi-player games… well, at least the local multi-player games. We only barely managed to eke out completion of “Borderlands 2” at the last minute, and with a bit of skipped content (thanks in large part to one of the participants taking two months off, during which we were ‘not allowed’ to proceed).
I spent the vast majority of the Summer putting the PlayStation 3 out of its misery. While I did run into a pleasantly surprising (and somewhat old) RPG via a trade with Chris, I was otherwise unimpressed by the last remnants of my PS3 backlog. I turned off the manual power switch on the back of the thing and can’t foresee a reason to ever flip it back on…
“Borderlands 2 (plus all DLC)” – 3.5/5
“Iron Brigade” – 4/5
“Puppeteer” – 3/5
“Resonance of Fate” – 4/5
“Mario Kart 8” – 4/5
“Best of PlayStation Network Vol. 1” – 1/5 (Quick Review)
“Fat Princess” – 1.5/5 (Quick Review)
“Sound Shapes” – 4/5
“Loadout” – 2/5
“Tokyo Jungle” – 2/5
“Super Mario 3D World” – 3.5/5
Chris’ Reviews:
Aside from the WiiU games we all played this past quarter, Chris played a bunch of typical ‘Chris would love that’ games. Surprisingly, however, the only one he ended up actually loving was (predictably) “Grand Theft Auto 5” (I think his favorite part was forcing me to watch him crash planes into buildings for hours while trying to unlock an achievement… err… Trophy).
“Wolfenstein: The New Order” – 3/5
“Mario Kart 8” – 4/5
“Evoland” – 4/5
“Grand Theft Auto 5” – 4.5/5
“Super Mario 3D World” – 3/5
“Deadlight” – 3.5/5
“Brutal Legent” – 3.5/5
Featured User Review:
This quarter’s featured user review winner is dbarrry_22 (again), for his glowing review (again) of “Mario Kart 8.” Since dbarry_22 and the MJ crew have been playing through this game at the same time, it’s good to see that our impressions of the game line up reasonably well.
