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Anthony John Agnello

Anthony John Agnello

Former Digital Trends Contributor

Anthony John Agnello is a writer living in New York. He works as the Community Manager of Joystiq.com and his writing has appeared in The AV Club, Salon, Edge, and many others. He is patiently waiting for Namco to finish Klonoa 3.

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‘Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze’ review

Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze is a very well-designed platformer that ultimately fails to strike the right balance between difficult and frustrating. If you have a Switch, it's the best place to play, thanks to a new easier "Funky Mode" option and the option of playing the game on the go.
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Monster Hunter 4 Ultimate review

More than two years after hitting Nintendo 3DS in Japan, Monster Hunter 4 Ultimate finally makes its way to the US to try and bring the series to new players. Thanks to subtle but affecting changes, the game is more welcoming than any of its predecessors.
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Evolve review

Left 4 Dead creator Turtle Rock Studios returns with a fresh take on cooperative play, but the slow pace of forced progression hinders the four-versus-one action.
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Grim Fandango Remastered review

After 16 years, Grim Fandango has been resurrected. Rather than completely overhaul it, Double Fine has smartly preserved one of Tim Schafer and LucasArts’ best works, letting its resonant life in the land of the dead shine.
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Saints Row: Gat Out of Hell review

Saints Row: Gat Out of Hell’s shift in character focus and overall mediocrity makes for a deeply disappointing follow up to Saints Row IV.
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Saints Row IV: Re-Elected review

Saints Row IV is a fun game, and it’s a funny game. While it’s absurd comedy about an alien invasion is solid on a surface level, it’s the underlying perspective on the sum total of video games that makes it genius.
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Resident Evil HD Remaster Review

This new HD re-mastering of the 2002 Gamecube version of Resident Evil is the best way there is to enjoy Shinji Mikami’s puzzling horror thanks to admirable presentation and smartly reconsidered controls.
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The Interview review

Sony cancelled showing The Interview in theaters due to terrorist threats, but we caught a press screening of the controversial movie beforehand. And the terrorists might have done Sony a favor.
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Kingdom Hearts 2.5 HD ReMix review

Kingdom Hearts 2.5 HD ReMix is an admirable preservation, warts and all, of gaming's weirdest, most personal success story.
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Persona Q: Shadow of the Labyrinth review

Persona Q: Shadow of the Labyrinth is an excellent game for anyone looking to mainline old-style dungeon crawling, but series fans that want involved storytelling should think twice before taking the plunge.
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Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker review

An unlikely spinoff of Super Mario 3D World, Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker is an old-fashioned puzzle game drawn in beautiful modern colors.
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Super Smash Bros. for Wii U

Super Smash Bros. for Wii U turns out to be much more than the big, beautiful version of Smash 3DS, with a variety of new modes and larger scale fights that evolve the way Nintendo's fighting series plays on a fundamental level.
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LittleBigPlanet 3 review

LittleBigPlanet 3 attempts to evolve the series by adding new characters and toys to its platforming, but fails to mix its story and creative tools into a focused effort.
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Assassin’s Creed Unity review

The first Assassin's Creed built specifically for PlayStation 4 and Xbox One hosts a remarkable recreation of Revolution-era Paris. As impressive as its city is, though, Assassin's Creed Unity is equally devoid of soul.
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Bayonetta 2 review

Bayonetta 2's gargantuan barrage of sex, violence, and surrealism sets the mind on fire in ways most other action games never dream of, let alone on Nintendo's game-hungry Wii U.
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Persona 4 Arena Ultimax review

An excellent sequel to Persona 4 Arena, Ultimax broadens both the accessibility and the technical mastery of its fights while making welcome tweaks to its single-player content. Unfortunately it's even more inaccessible to series newcomers.
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The Evil Within review

Resident Evil creator Shinji Mikami turns in his first horror game in nearly a decade. Rather than a triumphant return, The Evil Within is a naked effort to recapture past highs that fails almost entirely.
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‘C’mon, hustle!’ How Kickstarter is turning game development into a spectator sport

Former Interplay creatives Brian Fargo and Chris Avellone discuss the unique challenges they face in building crowdfunded games like Wasteland 2 for the modern world.
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Alien: Isolation review

A remarkable work of science fiction tension and stress, Alien: Isolation's brilliant first half is almost eclipsed by an abysmal second following what should be its climax.
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Theatrhythm Final Fantasy: Curtain Call review

Theatrhythm Final Fantasy: Curtain Call is a wonderfully odd celebration of the many composers, both famous and obscure, who have worked on the Final Fantasy series for more than 25 years.
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Super Smash Bros for Nintendo 3DS review

Super Smash Bros. for 3DS proves Nintendo's brawler can work on handhelds, a beautifully mad fighter that both embodies the best of the series' past while adding to it in essential ways.
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Metro Redux review

Four years after Metro 2033 hit Xbox 360, 4A Games delivers the definitive version of its post-apocalyptic adventure series, unifying the original and its successor Last Light in both visual and play style.
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Diablo 3: Ultimate Evil Edition review

For anyone longing for a game as focused on questing, looting, and leveling as the original Diablo, Ultimate Evil Edition encapsulates that style while packaging all the best of Diablo III in one place.
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Akiba’s Trip: Undead & Undressed review

Halfway between The Benny Hill Show and Isabella Rossellini's Green Porno is Akiba's Trip, an anime action RPG with surprisingly progressive ideas about sex and materialism.
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Ultra Street Fighter IV review

Ultra Street Fighter IV, the first major iteration on Street Fighter IV in four years, is the best version of Capcom's brawler but it strains against the technology housing it.
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Rogue Legacy review

Addictive and smartly crafted, Cellar Door Games' Rogue Legacy is a beguiling, modern action game that hooks you with swift action and keeps you stuck with smart character building.
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Mario Kart 8 review

Mario Kart 8 is the best Mario Kart we’ve ever reviewed, and may go down as everyone’s new favorite kart racer, despite a couple irksome problems with Nintendo's online services.
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Oddworld: New ‘n’ Tasty review

After nearly two decades, Oddworld Inhabitants re-imagines Oddworld: Abe's Odyssey. Expanded and rebalanced with fewer cumbersome barriers between the player and its endearing, beautiful-ugly world, New 'N' Tasty is the definitive version of the game.
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EA Sports UFC review

EA's second attempt at an MMA video game series is admirably focused and creates an impressively versatile control scheme to approximate the sport, but it fails to communicate how to use those controls in any meaningful way.
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Murdered: Soul Suspect Review

Murdered: Soul Suspect has the makings of a fascinatingly macabre video game detective story but fails to flesh out its ghostly characters and world.
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Kirby: Triple Deluxe review

After a three-year hiatus following Kirby: Return to Dreamland on Wii, Kirby returns to platforming on Nintendo 3DS in Kirby Triple Deluxe. What looks like the same old thing on the outside actually hides an expertly crafted game within.
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The Amazing Spider-Man 2 review

Beenox's fourth Spider-Man game in as many years isn't an outright failure but its bafflingly dumb design choices prevent it from being the guilty pleasure it might have been.
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2014 FIFA World Cup Review

2014 FIFA World Cup may feel like a licensing cash grab considering the absence of typical FIFA features, but its clarity, focus, and charm make it a commendable entry all the same.
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Trials Fusion review

Trials Fusion seems to make only superficial changes to RedLynx's motocross, but a complex and impressively deep game hides beneath the flashy new sci-fi setting.
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