James Stephanie Sterling

The team at Spiders have produced their best work yet - a visually delightful Soulslike with flowing combat, overpowered weapons, and a robot in a powdered wig. It's janky as heck, but I'm loving it! hqdefault.jpg (YouTube)

I've coined a new game for the special kind of disaster this guy makes. From now on, he is the master of the Gilsonlike! Ashigaru: The Last Shogun - The Return Of Gilson B. Pontes (Jimpressions) (YouTube)

The Last of Us Part I is The Last of Us but prettier. That really is it. It's a beat-for-beat mechanical replica with updates visuals. Is that worth $70? The Last Of Us Part I - Relasted (Jimpressions) (YouTube)

The new Saints Row? Yeah, it's not so great. Saint Row - Saints Broke (Jimpressions) (YouTube)

There's so much poo in this game. It's pretty good though! Cult Of The Lamb - A World Of Sh*t (Jimpressions) (YouTube)

Under the thrall of Square Enix, Platinum Games has delivered a true masterpiece of awfulness in Babylon's Fall. This live service trash is really bad. Really, really bad. Babylon's Fall - More Like Babylon's Fail LOL (Jimpressions) (YouTube)

Elden Ring is like Dark Souls, but more. More scale, more options, more accessibility. God damn, it is good! Elden Ring - The Dark Souls Of Games That Aren't Dark Souls (Jimpressions) (YouTube)

Pokémon Legends: Arceus is what the Pokémon series has sorely needed. Quicker, more efficient, and far less of a waste of time. Best Pokémon game, easy! Pokémon Legends: Arceus - Literally The Best Pokémon Game (Jimpressions) (YouTube)

Originally released in 2020 and finally stumbled upon by James Stephanie Sterling in 2022, The Procession to Cavalry has very quickly become one of my favorite games. Seriously, I love this special little adventure game. Funny, ridiculous, and visually creative, I can't praise it enough. The Process

One of the laziest, most despicable games I've ever played, the sheer lack of effort in conjunction with a well known license is beyond appalling. Let's see just how utterly pathetic one game can be. The answer is very. Very, very pathetic. Popeye - How Pathetic Can One Game Be? (Jimpressions) (YouT

Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy is a damn sight better than Marvel's Avengers, but that's hardly high praise. That game was bloody awful. By contrast, this is a well written, well paced, well made game. That's a lot of wells, and this game has a lot of licensed music. Well, well, well. Marvel's Gua

Hentai Vs. Evil has taken something beautiful (hentai) and made it bad (bad). Hentai Vs. Evil - As Horny As A Soccer Ball (Jimpressions) (YouTube)

Back 4 Blood is basically a lesser version of Left 4 Dead, despite having way more content. Turns out personality is way more compelling than simply having loads of stuff. Also, it's really annoying. And slow. And just not as good as Left 4 Dead. Back 4 Blood - Left 4 Meh'd (Jimpressions) (YouTube)

I've made no secret of my excitement for Skatebird. I must now be equally as open about my disappointment. Skatebird - Everything I Love Turns To Ash (Jimpressions) (YouTube)

Deathloop is a fairly standards FPS with a layering of interesting trappings. It also has a special edition that trivializes most of it. It throws open the quandary of providing deluxe edition items that straddle the line between useful and overpowered, though most games opt for either the latter or

Road adventures, oppressive regimes, and robbery. Road 96 is a well written little game about traveling the country in a quest for the border. Road 96 - Country Roads (Jimpressions) (YouTube)

Samurai Warriors 5 manages to disappoint me despite being part of an increasing franchise of letdowns. The Warriors series overall is in a total slump, has been for years, and yet I keep hoping for better. Tecmo Koei went the "reboot" route with this one - a silly idea if you know your Warriors game

Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart is the first game to demonstrate that the PS5 is actually a PS5, which is very good if you're one of the few people watching this that own a PS5. How nice! It's also a pretty damn good game in and of itself, so it's got that going for it Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart - An A

I want to like Biomutant. I really do. But I don't. Because it's not very good. Biomutant - Attack Of The Goofy Weasel Beasts (Jimpressions) (YouTube)

Resident Evil has never tasted so much like Halloween. Resident Evil Village is a camp and schlocky delight. It's spooky, and silly, and has a lot of Resident Evil 4 in its DNA. In short, I like it. In tall, Lady Dimitrescu! Resident Evil Village - Village Creeple (Jimpressions) (YouTube)

Finally! Something new and interesting for the PlayStation 5. If you have one, this curious roguelite shoot-em-up might be your cup of tea. I'm personally enjoying it a lot. It's a tough game that has all the trappings of a permadeath run-doer with shiny next-gen graphics. Add some subtle existentia

A week after buying it, Outriders is one of the very worst "live service" experiences I've ever played. The servers are so busted, the software so prone to crashing, and the gameplay so unworthy of the investment that I'm absolutely disgusted. While I understand not everybody has had my experience,

Oh yes! The soul still burns, as Gilson B. Pontes returns with another horrible, terrible, horrible game. Welcome to the "world" of Taishogun! It's a Gilson game. You know the score by now. Run, slash, die, get bored, sprint to the edge of the map, question your spending habits. Classic gameplay! Ta

Hyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity is a prequel to a sequel and a sequel to a spin-off. It's also really bloody good, I reckon. With a more complex Warriors formula than usual, a diverse range of characters that have their own play styles as well as movesets, and a whole ton of content, it's mechanica

Demon's Souls is pretty much the sole PS5 exclusive of any circumstance, which is impressive when you remember it's also a PS3 game. From Software's incredibly influential 2009 release is one of my favorites, and I've wanted to see it rebuilt for years. Now it's finally here, with some quality of li

Amnesia: Rebirth isn't a bad game, but it doesn't live up to the series for which it's titled. While billed as a direct sequel to The Dark Descent, it feels further removed from that than the indirect chapter, A Machine for Pigs. It's got some nice monster designs, and it's a decent enough horror ga

Hades is excellent. Seriously very excellent. A level of excellent that has quickly seen it become one of my favorite games ever. Top notch combat, a terrific blend of RPG and roguelike qualities, amazing writing, graphics, and music. Hades' mythological tale of family conflict is just fantastic. Ea

2K has another bad wrestling videogame to ruin your day, but this time it's made of cartoons! Following last year's disastrous 2K20, WWE is back with 2K Battlegrounds. And it's rubbish. Limited, repetitive, and stuffed with a grinding microtransaction economy, WWE 2K Battlegrounds is worth playing o

Kingdoms of Amalur: Re-Reckoning is a pretty basic remaster of a game that could have stood to see more improvements. It's not terrible, but Amalur shows its age despite some convenience overhauls. Still, the action RPG holds up really well, still looks nice, and boasts that excellent character buil

It may have the powerful Marvel license behind it, but make no mistake - Marvel's Avengers is just another forgettably mediocre "live service" waste of time. A lifeless, colorless, utterly humorless take on the Marvel universe, Avengers' overall sloppiness and visually horrendous presentation doesn'

Battletoads is a game with a very small attention span. One moment it's a brawler, the next it's a bullet hell shooter. When you finally get a handle on it, the thing becomes a rhythmic runner game. Those hoping for a brawler will be disappointed. There's plenty of combat, but Battletoads is never i

Fall Guys is an entertaining game that shines a grimly colorful light on just how self-destructive our self-service can be. Crabs in a bucket, people! While it has some issues - mainly from a monetary perspective - Fall Guys is a great blend of battle royale and silly physicality evocative of shows

Grounded is yet another survival game, but the shrunken conceit it hangs itself on carries the otherwise generic formula surprisingly well. At least when there aren't any spiders around. Seriously, forget about arachnophobia. Scary or not, these spiders might be some of the worst things to be found

Destroy All Humans is a good laugh, though it fails when it tries to make you actually laugh. An entertaining sandbox of alien weapons and flying saucers has been improved with this 2020 remake's welcome overhauls. Hellpoint, however, is a mediocre and rubbish videogame. Just saying. Destroy All Hum

Hello, I'm Jim Sterling. I didn't ask him to do this, but Justin did his own video about Paper Mario: The Origami King because I couldn't be bothered. So this is what he thinks about it! Paper Mario: The Origami King - Justin Loves The Mario Man (Justinpressions) (YouTube)

Ghost of Tsushima is a very fun samurai game, and if that's what you want, then Sucker Punch has you covered. If it's not what you want, then who even knows what to say to you? Visually breathtaking, mechanically pleasant, Ghost of Tsushima is just supremely enjoyable. It features some open world bu

It's 2020. Of course a game I was looking forward to more than anything has turned out to be a hot disaster of stuttered frames and questionable content. 2020 is the worst, as this game set mostly in 2005 demonstrates. York does accents... Oh dear. Deadly Premonition 2: A Blessing In Disguise - Fran

The Last of Us Part 2 is a grimy, nasty, and lurid game. What it isn't is anywhere near as accomplished as its marketing and reviews (same thing in this case) claimed it was. It's a fun action-horror game, which is perfectly fine... save for the excessive promises that would make Peter Molyneux seem

The problem with Minecraft Dungeons is that while it's the simplistic childish game many people may have expected, it's not actually what a Minecraft spin-off should be. Minecraft, while popular with kids, is deep and complex and imaginative. Minecraft Dungeons is rudimentary and restrictive by cont

2K Games quietly shunted a remaster of Mafia II out the door, and playing it reveals why the publisher hasn't been particularly loud. It's a load of rubbish. A shockingly poor revision of a game that hadn't aged all that well to begin with, Mafia II: Definitive Edition is definitively inferior. Mafi

Maneater is a game about being a big shark that eats turtles and people and other sharks. You eat license plates, and catfish, and groupers, and idiots in flamingo boats. The controls are an absolute nightmare at times, but when you stop trying to be precise and just enjoy the blood soaked carnage,

Predator: Hunting Grounds is a perfectly acceptable experience and I'm bored of it already, even though I like Predators (but not as much as Aliens, obviously). While it can be fun to play as the titular Predator, the shtick gets old fast, especially due to the rest of the game being a mundane and r

Streets of Rage 4 behaves as if the Nineties never ended, and I'm okay with that. A beautiful (shut up, it's gorgeous) art style compliments an unapologetic retro beat 'em up that feels like a direct mechanical continuation of the original series. It's a vintage brawler and I love vintage brawlers s

Fallout 76 is a bad videogame, this is something I have factually established. I am a fair and just man, however, and this is why I returned to Appalachia for Fallout 76: Wastelanders. The long-awaited update finally puts some Fallout into the Fallout game, and it's... alright I guess. Wastelanders

Final Fantasy VII Remake is perhaps the most anticipated videogame of all time, and a well-received demo made it appear as if it would be everything fans wanted. It isn't. Final Fantasy VII Remake is something new. It's something different. It's bold, and clever, and overwhelmingly arrogant. It's co

Final Fantasy VII Remake is out today. I am here talking about a thoroughly crap horror game that costs five bucks. Because I want to waste what finite time I have on this Earth. This is some rubbish I acquired because it was on the PS4 and I couldn't believe that garbage. So here it is. Garbage. Di

Resident Evil: Resistance is the multiplayer game attached to Resident Evil 3: Nemesis, and unfortunately it's just that - a mere attachment. It's half-baked, and not very good at all. I also strangely like it, or at least I've been playing it a lot. I wonder what it's like to play as a Mastermind t

Here is Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 Remastered, confusingly released after Call of Duty: Modern Warfare, the game this isn't a sequel of. Good ol' Activision! But seriously, Modern Warfare 2 had a pretty damn good campaign, and it plays well here. That said, it does highlight some directorial iss

Resident Evil 3: Nemesis is as excellent as it is scary, and it is very scary. Take it from someone who doesn't scare easily - Capcom pushed the boat out on making this one pure paranoia fuel. While the zombies can sometimes be annoying, the overall experience is just as good as Resident Evil 2, whi

It is a strange thing to see Ninja Theory - known for such games as Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice, DmC, and Enslaved: Odyssey to the West - put out a hero-based multiplayer game, especially since it feels about four years too late. Weirdly though, it's not really a bad videogame. It's got several key