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About Kirstie Summers

Kirstie Summers is a writer based in London, England, who takes every opportunity to blend her hobbies with her career. She has written about books, movies, art, and gaming. She has been a Nintendo fangirl for as long as she can remember and relishes any excuse to incorporate it into her work.
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Review: The Gardens Between (Nintendo Switch)
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5 years ago

Review: The Gardens Between (Nintendo Switch)

The Gardens Between draws you into its atmosphere immediately. It opens on a classically familiar suburban setting, centred on a treehouse nestled between two houses. As rain falls and thunder …
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Review: Time Carnage (Nintendo Switch)
6.5
5 years ago

Review: Time Carnage (Nintendo Switch)

Time Carnage is near enough exactly what you would expect from a game called Time Carnage.

Marketed as a “frantic survival shooter”, you are sent through time with a couple …
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Review: Slice, Dice and Rice (Nintendo Switch)
8
6 years ago

Review: Slice, Dice and Rice (Nintendo Switch)

A genuinely interesting take on the one-on-one fighting game, Slice, Dice and Rice has ended up perhaps one of the most realistically deadly brawl games you’ll ever play. Instead of …
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Review: Wasteland 2 (Nintendo Switch)
9
6 years ago

Review: Wasteland 2 (Nintendo Switch)

The follow-up to an iconic and pioneering game, Wasteland 2 was first released in 2014, with a Director’s Cut and new console versions released shortly after in 2015. Now celebrating …
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Review: Shio (Nintendo Switch)
8
6 years ago

Review: Shio (Nintendo Switch)

The platformer genre has been evolving at a rapid pace recently, with new releases getting increasingly challenging and atmospheric and developing rich storylines that add whole new layers to games …
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Review: Bad North (Nintendo Switch)
8
6 years ago

Review: Bad North (Nintendo Switch)

Games about viking invaders usually don’t have the minimalist, almost cute aesthetic of Bad North, but this game really makes it work.

The simpicity of the design is lovely to …
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Review: The Messenger (Nintendo Switch)
8.5
6 years ago

Review: The Messenger (Nintendo Switch)

The Messenger is everything that you want for the games of your childhood brought to contemporary consoles. Except that it has been released for the first time in 2018. While …
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Review: Tanzia (Nintendo Switch)
6.5
6 years ago

Review: Tanzia (Nintendo Switch)

Anyone even remotely familiar with fantasy RPGs will find a lot of Tanzia weirdly familiar. It is a single player game that allows you to explore a colourful, magical world …
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Review: Hello Neighbor (Nintendo Switch)
7.5
6 years ago

Review: Hello Neighbor (Nintendo Switch)

With an alpha first released on the Dynamic Pixel website in 2015, the Switch release of Hello Neighbor is definitely preceded by its reputation. Other than that, you are thrown …
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Review: The Wardrobe (Nintendo Switch)
6.5
6 years ago

Review: The Wardrobe (Nintendo Switch)

The Wardrobe begins with an opening clip that could almost be mistaken for serious if you don’t know what kind of game you’re in for. It tells the story of …
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Review: Ghost 1.0 (Nintendo Switch)
8.5
6 years ago

Review: Ghost 1.0 (Nintendo Switch)

The world of Ghost 1.0 is presented to you in the form of an intro video, comprised of news clips and soundbites of conversation that offer you snippets of this reality …
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Review: Inside (Nintendo Switch)
9
6 years ago

Review: Inside (Nintendo Switch)

Inside throws you instantly into the heart of a tense and terrifying escape, without so much as a start screen to orient yourself. All the instruction you need is implied …
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Review: Drawful 2 (Nintendo Switch)
7
6 years ago

Review: Drawful 2 (Nintendo Switch)

In an age when multiplayer gaming is common, there are still plenty of limits on the kind of games you can play from within the same room as your mates. …
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Review: Johnny Turbo’s Arcade: Wizard Fire (Nintendo Switch)
7
6 years ago

Review: Johnny Turbo’s Arcade: Wizard Fire (Nintendo Switch)

In an era when even the seemingly simplest games can hide layers of depth that can take years to fully tease apart, Johnny Turbo’s Arcade: Wizard Fire is a refreshingly …
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Review: Dream Alone (Nintendo Switch)
8
6 years ago

Review: Dream Alone (Nintendo Switch)

Dream Alone absorbs you immediately into the darkness of its world. The creepy black and white art style establishes in a matter of seconds what kind of game it will …
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Review: Hexologic (Nintendo Switch)
7.5
6 years ago

Review: Hexologic (Nintendo Switch)

Hexologic strips back the brain training game format and reinvents it in a way that is both challenging and soothing.

The game’s ability to relax you is built into …
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Review: Happy Birthdays (Nintendo Switch)
7.5
6 years ago

Review: Happy Birthdays (Nintendo Switch)

Happy Birthdays is not the game that its name and cover art suggest that it is. The cartoon dinosaurs hint at a kid-friendly Jurassic Park sort of thing and the …
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Review: Knights of Pen and Paper +1 Deluxier Edition (Nintendo Switch)
8.5
6 years ago

Review: Knights of Pen and Paper +1 Deluxier Edition (Nintendo Switch)

Knights of Pen and Paper +1 Deluxier Edition is built from the very foundation to take you back to the first time you ever played Dungeons and Dragons.

The …
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