Gordon
@gordon.jagreview.com
every day I am bad at video games and sometimes I write about those video games for @jagreview.com I write video game reviews for fun, for free, and as little creative writing exercises all game reviews aim to fit on Steam please enable my bad takes
Between Black Myth: Wukong and Phantom Blade Zero, I legitimately have no idea how Chinese developers will ship games with combat systems that straight-up don't work as intended. I've seen combat systems that are fundamentally bad at a base level, but these just don't work when they SHOULD be cool.
Just goes to show that no matter how much money you have, it doesn't guarantee that you'll make something good with it.
VGC@videogameschronicle.com · 2d agoBereaved families have demanded that Activision edit the intro sequence for Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 after it emerged that it uses a clip of archival news footage shot at the scene of a 2022 crowd crush tragedy in Seoul which killed 159 people. www.videogameschronicle.com/news/cod-mod...
Earlier this year, I played Mixtape. A game that isn't as bad as some people pretend, but also not quite as good as some people say. A fun little story propped up with solid writing, but it is seriously let down in the gameplay department. Read the full review here: jagreview.com/2026/10/27/r...
Review: Mixtape (2026)
Platform(s): PC (Steam, Epic Games), Nintendo Switch 2, PS5, Xbox Series X|S Verdict: POSITIVE Truth be told, the discourse surrounding Mixtape has been one of the most enjoyable things in gaming f…
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Beat Ace Combat 8 today, and that one is definitely a GotY contender. Probably the closest something has come to knocking Denshattack! out of the #1 spot. It might even end up doing that as I think on it more.
Many are calling me the single best pilot in Ace Combat™️8: Wings of Theve.
Nah they put crack in Ace Combat 8 or something it shouldn't be this good
Man, when I think about my top games this year, it's going to be so hard to rank them. Denshattack, Onimusha, Cairn, ReStory, Tokon, 007, Under the Island, and Homura Hime were all ones I really enjoyed. And I still have to finish Dawnwalker, Fire Emblem, Ace Combat 8, and Control Resonant.
It's amazing how one(1) route in Fortune's Weave does the revenge story like 800 times better than The Last of Us Part II could ever dream.
Anca............................................that is the entire point.........................................................................................
Watching a streamer play Wolverine without the cherry-picked and nicely edited gameplay from previews/reviews, this game really looks unenjoyable.
"If we're going to lose hundreds of millions of dollars on this idea, we're taking you down with us too."
VGC@videogameschronicle.com · 2mo agoAn unofficial multiplayer mod for The Last of Us Part 2 on PC has had its release canceled after Sony Interactive Entertainment allegedly sent its creators a warning. vgc.news/news/last-of...
Onimusha having really fun characters and a solid story really wasn't on my bingo card for this year. I was definitely expecting it to be a bit of a meathead action game, and I've never been happier to be proven wrong.
This was probably the only game I was somewhat interested in keeping my PS5 for. Kind of glad I sold it, especially if the gameplay is lacking in this. It's weird because the Spider-Man games had such fun gameplay, and maybe some narrative iffiness, so this feels like a complete reverse.
VGC@videogameschronicle.com · 2mo agoMarvel’s Wolverine Review: Uninspired gameplay leaves Logan feeling declawed despite a strong narrative. ⭐⭐⭐ www.videogameschronicle.com/review/marve...
Seeing people get upset that the Nintendo Direct had too many third-party games is wild. Did we already forget that the Wii U failed because of horrible third-party support.
I'm only a little bit into Orbitals, but it's insane how much more likeable Maki and Omura are than Mio and Zoe from Split Fiction lmfao it's like night and day
The one that gets mobs on me is RDR2. Arthur is generic the whole way through. The plot is just strung along by "TRUST THE PLAN" for *centuries* and doesn't evolve in a meaningful way. The plot completely nosedives in quality in chapter 5. The world is pretty but empty. The gameplay is only fine.
Arielle Danan ⚔️@huggablehipster.bsky.social · 3mo agoI'm going to hold your hand when I say this. The first Alan Wake. It was atrocious. It was tired with Stephen King references, and a story that was severely lacking. I didn't care for it. At all. The second game, however, was excellent.
bro it's my SECOND Tokon game and it's a casual match why 😭 this is not very Fighting Souls of you
There's still a lot of 2026 left, but I really feel like Denshattack is going to end up being my game of the year.
In all of the discourse surrounding Mixtape, the only thing I've learned is that no one has a CLUE what an industry plant actually is or what those two words mean together.
Is Motorslice the first game that lets me take a selfie at the exact moment I'm crushed by a colossal dump truck
"RE9 is an easy enough recommendation for the Grace sections alone, but it’s a shame those parts are somewhat bogged down by some of Resident Evil’s worst habits." - @gordon.jagreview.com Read the full review for Resident Evil Requiem here: jagreview.com/2026/04/20/r...
Review: Resident Evil Requiem (2026)
Platform(s): PC (Steam, Epic Games), Nintendo Switch 2, PS5, Xbox Series X|S Verdict: POSITIVE This game is a bit of a tough one, and I kind of figured it would be when Capcom announced that Requie…
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Grace is already a relatable protagonist because her boss is sending her to a place of great trauma woefully underprepared to do anything there and she might get her head ripped off by a giant monstrosity and that's the kind of job story that people just Get
wonder woman was so real for looking at zatanna like this..................................
between MindsEye and Code Violet I firmly believe that truly terrible games bring people together and unite them better than any other force in the world
bro I hate peak I didn't mean to forsake the British (this time) why did he have to haunt me the rest of the way I just wanted to HELP
I think I've nailed down my best and worst games of 2025. Top 6 Best: 1. Expedition 33 2. Hades II 3. Dispatch 4. Monster Hunter Wilds 5. Metroid Prime 4 6. Split Fiction Top Doodoo Worst (Shared): 1. Assassin's Creed Shadows and Battlefield 6
mindseye is terrible the story is paced HORRIBLY how did this even get pushed out the door
