• Tekken 6 (X360)

    ...level. Cheap as chips, David Dickinson would say. Back onto the list of flaws, there’s the camera. The dodgy farkin’ camera. You can’t move the blasted thing when it’s in...

  • Mega Man (PC)

    ...quantity of cheap jumping puzzles, the bizarre control scheme, and a hero who glides around like a buttered walrus, Mega Man feels exactly like its NES counterparts in that it...

  • Avenging Spirit (ARC)

    ...popular. It only appeared in a small number of arcades in the U.S., and then vanished in a puff of smoke. Like a ghost often will. Jaleco published Avenging Spirit,...

  • Submissions (September 2007)

    ...the game utilizes the microphone function and has you repeat quotes from the movie ad nauseum. If that’s how you play then, from what I’ve seen, most of the Internet...

  • Cooking Mama (DS)

    ...for screwing up. The minigames range from the mind-numbingly simple (like typing in the correct number on a numeric keypad/cooking timer) to some that require good timing (tapping different ingredients...

  • Cheat Codes for Life

    ...that. When selling games, you have a number of options. You could sell them to game shops, like E B Games or GameStop, but you’re going to get ripped horribly,...

  • EarthBound for Disaster

    ...the implacable critic in me was pleasantly surprised by the superb learning curve, the number of concessions made in favor of the player, and the absolutely unnecessary little touches that...

  • [NSFW] Deathsmiles (X360)

    ...individuality with a number of SHMUP gimmicks. First, after your starting level, you get to determine much of your own path from there by getting to select many levels as...

  • The Mystery of Monkey Island

    ...and must defeat this evil villain yet again. The Curse of Monkey Island came out a number of years after the original two, as is clearly evidenced by the extreme...

  • The Vana’diel Diaries (August 2006)

    ...monsters and fight them faster. It may sound kind of cheap, but the practice is in such wide use it’s hard to judge. July 12 Last night was the big...