Reader Reviews

This week's bumper crop of reader submissions covers something like six or seven genres, on four systems (and it would have been more if I'd snuck in a couple of retro submissions - look for them next week), with views ranging from the unsurprising to the unexpected and even occasionally the inexplicable. We'll probably avoid an easterly gust of pitchforks and flaming placards this week, but once again it demonstrates that, whether brilliant, inoffensive or repulsive, games always polarise opinions, even within the bounds of a single genre. And there's no such thing as a "definitive" opinion, apart from the old "Empire is better than Jedi" thing...

Anyway, keep sending in the reviews, and we'll keep publishing them... Which reminds me - we're removing the controversial word limit of 300 this week. We've long since ignored it, to be honest, and it's more of a hindrance than a help to you lot. So, the new instruction is simply: review the game. However you should consider that a sprawling epic plotting the course of button presses through Final Fantasy X and trends in their dispersal is less likely to find its way here than a captivating and concise recollection of the best bits. Any questions? Aim them here.