• Lovely Lisa (DS)

    ...to like about this game, except for the acceptable music and controls. Just look at it. It is a cheap translation job of a game for Japanese children. It is...

  • Jigsaw Madness (PS1)

    ...of adding another game to my endlessly expanding library, and also because it was cheap. I wasn’t expecting it to have decent controls, acceptable presentation and excellent music. I didn’t...

  • StarSweep (PS1)

    ...to play it. If they hadn’t been so cheap in my local retro video game retailer, on that ever so fateful day, I’d have never walked away with Jigsaw Madness...

  • Bleach: Heat the Soul (PSP)

    ...you need to do is whittle down the enemy’s health using cheap tactics and then you win! With only five playable characters (six including the one and only hidden character),...

  • Dragon Warrior II (NES)

    ...only graphical part of the game that is moderately impressive. I can imagine that Akira Toriyama doesn’t come cheap. Malroth…or, maybe some form of Cell from Dragon Ball Z. The...

  • Crimsonland Coming to Steam and PlayStation 4

    ...but with better graphics and without the song?”, and the answer is “yes”. “Yes, MAED is a cheap knockoff of a free game that came out several years earlier.” But...

  • Localization Anxiety: Nintendo World Cup

    ...looks exactly the same. The game only changes the palette colors depending on the team you’re selecting. That just feels a little cheap to me. This is how the USA,...

  • Shovel Knight (PC)

    ...fair throughout, with no cheap shots or cheating bosses. It’s a learning experience up there with the absolute best, splicing modern videogame friendliness to old-school videogame cruelty in the most...

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    The 2009 GameCola Videogame Awards

    ...Arkham Asylum could have shoveled out a phoned-in piece of pure mediocrity, they instead delivered a great storyline, solid voice acting, immersive graphics, and a game that absolutely perfects the...

  • Penny Arcade Adventures: On the Rain-Slick Precipice of Darkness – Episode 3 (PC)

    ...game is cheap and affordable at a mere $5, with the promise of free DLC (one of which will detail the fate of the player character from the first two...