Reviews – Phenixx Gaming

Love Hurts (Movie) Review

Matthew Lomas — Tue, 18 Feb 2025 18:00:56 +0000

Valentine’s Day, like many other holidays, always brings about a lot of interesting films. While there aren’t a lot of traditional love stories that popped up, there is one that I found attractive called Love Hurts. Ke Huy Quan and Ariana DeBose headline this unexpected romantic action comedy that involves mobsters, hitmen, and a few gorgeous houses to call home! Ke Huy Quan plays Marvin…

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Tomb Raider IV-VI Remastered (PC) – Review

Keiran McEwen — Mon, 17 Feb 2025 18:00:56 +0000

I’m glad everyone’s up to date on what is and isn’t Roman, so I don’t need to explain what IV, V, and VI are to Americans anymore. Continuing on from where Aspyr left off with the Tomb Raider remasters last year, we can once again jump, climb, and probably kill Lara in that poorly designed opener to The Angel of Darkness. This time (of course) we are focused on the original ending of Lara’s tale…

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Flint: Treasure of Oblivion (PC) – Review

Keiran McEwen — Fri, 14 Feb 2025 18:00:11 +0000

As the Sweet Transvestite sang, “And when you’re a professional pirate…” Set in the golden age of piracy (minus the bay of the internet), Flint: Treasure of Oblivion plays as a prequel to Scottish writer Robert Louis Stevenson’s seminal work and character, Captain James Flint. Though the marketing lacks major Treasure Island or The Sea Cook: A Story for Boys notes, the pirate-based CRPG plunders…

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Eureka “Many Happy Returns” – Review

Keiran McEwen — Thu, 13 Feb 2025 18:00:12 +0000

That’s a walking red flag, and I’m sticking by that no matter what. Directed by Jefery Levy, “Many Happy Returns” is the first of his two outings as director; the second being in episode 7, “Blink.” Written by show creators Cosby and Paglia, I don’t think I have anything to add that I said last week (about four months ago) when I wrote about episode 1, “Pilot.” Both are fairly under the radar…

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Tiny Terry’s Turbo Trip (PS5) Review

Mike Reitemeier — Thu, 13 Feb 2025 16:00:54 +0000

Cozy/wholesome games are a blast to unwind to, and they’re still going strong in 2025, with thousands of gamers looking forward to the next Wholesome Direct to get their fix of low-key, low-stress games to look forward to. Tiny Terry’s Turbo Trip would be right at home in a cozy gamer’s collection, as it sits with a 96% overwhelmingly-positive rating on Steam after its May 2024 release on the…

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Companion (Movie) Review

Matthew Lomas — Wed, 12 Feb 2025 18:00:07 +0000

When the first teaser trailer for Companion dropped, I was intrigued and disturbed by the direction that it seemed to be taking. Is witchcraft at play here? Is it a cult-like situation? What could compel someone to stay still while their hand was burning? Why was this man so determined to hurt this woman? These questions swirled in my mind as I entered the theater to see Companion.

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Door Kickers 2: Task Force North (PC) – Review

Keiran McEwen — Tue, 11 Feb 2025 18:00:45 +0000

Much like America’s war in the Middle East, Romanian studio KillHouse Games’ Door Kickers 2: Task Force North felt somewhat like it was in early access for longer than time itself. Finally out in its 1.0 release, the fully updated sequel to 2014’s Door Kickers puts you in charge of a squad of US Rangers in a made-up destabilized Middle Eastern state, Nowhereaki. Commanding the team is the easy…

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Planet Coaster 2 (Xbox Series X) Review

Taylor Bauer — Tue, 11 Feb 2025 16:00:03 +0000

Planet Coaster is one of the games I have played the most on the Xbox Series X. As a huge fan of sandbox-style simulation games and evidently a theme park nerd, this series is tailor-made for my niche interests. I also adored the RollerCoaster Tycoon games back in the day, so you can imagine how much joy I have in saying Planet Coaster 2 is here and bringing the series to new heights.

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Eureka “Pilot” – Review

Keiran McEwen — Thu, 06 Feb 2025 18:00:01 +0000

The quote at the start of EUReKA (as it is stylized) goes thusly, “A little Knowledge is a dangerous thing. So is a lot.” For Colin Ferguson’s Sheriff Carter, that’s pretty true. Directed by Peter O’Fallon, it is difficult to say O’Fallon is known for much. He directed some episodes of Pushing Daisies, as well as writing and co-creating the Jim Jefferies-led comedy, Legit. The same can be said for…

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Fairy Tail 2 (PlayStation 5) Review

Alexx Aplin — Thu, 06 Feb 2025 16:00:39 +0000

Game adaptations for anime are sometimes hit or miss for me. Depending on the anime, I feel like certain adaptations are just overdone. Dragon Ball Z does well, as does One Piece, but a lot are half-baked attempts to capture the source material. In 2024, Fairy Tail had a big year with both Fairy Tail Dungeons and Fairy Tail 2. Fairy Tail 2 is an RPG developed by Gust and published by Koei Tecmo.

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