Review Round-Up: Spring 2016

By Nelson Schneider - 06/04/16 at 05:13 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:
Spring wasn’t particularly productive with regard to completing games. The MJ Crew only managed to co-op our way through 2 titles, thanks to some stupid scheduling issues, and we’ve generally been feeling blasé and unmotivated about the co-op games in our collective backlog.

For my part, I completed a variety of games… but only one of them was really great.

“Apotheon” – 4.5/5
“HOARD” – 3/5
“Lost Planet: Extreme Condition” – 2.5/5
“Monaco: What’s Yours Is Mine” – 4/5
“The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel” – 2.5/5
“Call of Juarez” – 3.5/5
“LittleBigPlanet 3” – 4/5

Chris’ Reviews:
Chris still can’t pull himself away from his damnable phone long enough to put a meaningful number of hours into his favorite genre of content-bloated Action/Sandbox games. Thus he’s not even halfway through “Fallout 4.” Even worse, he seems unmotivated to keep playing, which leads him into wasting time with throw-away Steam titles like “Crush Crush” (which he hasn’t reviewed yet) instead of something that is actually in his sizeable backlog. It’s painful to watch his struggle…

“Fight the Dragon” – 3/5
“Postal 2” – 3/5
“HOARD” – 3/5

Featured User Review:
Even with my loosened criteria for winning the featured review slot, nobody was up to the task this quarter, so the laurels remain unclaimed. Maybe more people will have time to write high-quality reviews over the summer. (Hint: A ‘high-quality’ review is more than 1 paragraph.)