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nilkynarfy

nilkynarfy
Game Buff
# Film Ratings: 1585
# Game Ratings: 133
Member Since: 20 Mar 2007
Location: Racine, WI, USA
Bio: I write reviews that say more about me than the films I watch. That's okay, I think.

Recent Ratings

50 8%
Marvel Ultimate Alliance 2 (2009) - Rated 14 Jul 2025
Really bland and dumbed down. I missed this one until recently, and tried it after a replay of the previous games in the series: X-Men Legends 1+2 and the first MUA. Those games hold up quite well, even the visuals, but this one is just an ugly mess. Brainlessly beating things up still works though.
85 64%
WWE 2K24 (2024) - Rated 18 Nov 2024
The best of the 2020s so far. Marginal improvements have never felt this good. Room to grow would be on the somewhat confusing unlock conditions in the MyFaction mode (seriously, make it more clear) and a whole ass MyUniverse mode that is very easy to miss. I seriously have like five minutes total in that mode because I never know where it is. Oh well, GM mode saw some big improvements, and I can see the possibilities for improvement with very little in the way of additional resources.
85 64%
River City Ransom (1989) - Rated 02 Jul 2024
By taking the hidden RPG progression of Double Dragon and placing it in plain sight in an open world, we get the best home console beat em up of the 80s.
70 21%
Tom Clancy's The Division (2016) - Rated 05 Mar 2024
Got into it with buddies shortly after release, and it's great for that; however, once you take friends out of the equation (or just play for too long), you're left with an overly repetitive Borderlands clone with that game's fun taxes and all. Heaven forbid you go out to eat on a night your friends are gaming, forcing you to spend the whole next sesh power leveling.
85 64%
Street Fighter 30th Anniversary Collection (2018) - Rated 12 Jan 2024
I know I'm picky, but I really really wanted the Playstation or Dreamcast version of Alpha 3. Otherwise, it's the classic Street Fighter series. You know it, you love it, and you will never want to play it against someone who brings their own controller.
75 31%
WWE 2K23 (2023) - Rated 11 Jan 2024
The GM mode needs a little more oomf, but it gets a c for effort. This is a passable rasslin game, with less bugs and jank than before. The commentary script is, finally, on par with the excellent commentary in the NBA 2k series (love the extraneous Gordon Solie references).
80 47%
Trine (2009) - Rated 25 Nov 2023
I never had a chance to play it with friends, but the single player mode scratched the "Little Big Planet meets D&D by way of Medieval 2" itch I never knew I had. This was a neat game; I love when puzzle-platformers don't have a prescribed solution for every problem.
90 82%
Sensible Soccer (1992) - Rated 29 Oct 2023
Only played the Genesis version because I can't figure out how to get my controller to work in the GOG version. Anyway, this is a stellar game of soccer. It's sufficiently serious, but the simple arcade controls just work. It's like the soccer Tecmo Bowl.
85 64%
Marvel Ultimate Alliance (2006) - Rated 29 Oct 2023
One or two steps too close to casual action, but the gameplay is rock solid, and attaching RPG mechanics to the costumes was a great choice (your yellow and blue wolverine will have a slightly different playstyle to your tanktop and jeans wolverine, for example). The only flaw for me was a personal disinterest in some of the level locations: they were either overdone for the series (vaguely futuristic military/industrial compounds), or outright annoying (Murderworld). Atlantis was cool though.
5 1%
NBA 2K24 (2023) - Rated 29 Oct 2023
All 5 points there are for the marginal improvements to gameplay. This is a game made by an equity management firm.