By Nelson Schneider - 06/01/25 at 01:46 PM CT
Welcome back to another installment of the MeltedJoystick Review Round-Up. Here’s what our staff has reviewed since last time:
Nelson’s Reviews:
I finished the second of my 3 Backlog Ablution picks… and was sorely disappointed by it. Other than that, Chris and I got through two pretty good couch-coop ‘Vania-style games, and I splurged on a new Switch game that was good, but could have been better.
“Gal Guardians: Demon purge” – 3.5/5
“Pentiment” – 2.5/5
“The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom” – 4/5
“Pampas & Selene: The Maze of Demons” – 4/5
Chris’ Review:
Chris is STILL playing “Assassin’s Creed Odyssey” feverishly, and insists that he’s “almost done.” On my advice, he’s waiting to set up his new gaming PC until he actually IS done, so Uplay’s cloud save feature doesn’t accidentally send him back to square one. Even more disappointing, in spite of completing 2 couch coop games with me this Spring, he only submitted a review for… an online coop game the whole Crew played sometime last year.
“TMNT: Shredder’s Revenge” – 3.5/5
Nick’s Procrastination:
Sadly, with the close of Spring, the year is over a quarter gone already, and Nick still hasn’t managed to check-off any of his Backlog Ablution games, let alone gotten around to anything else. I know he was playing “DiRT Rally,” though, because he was grumbling to us about the “fun” of getting his old racing wheel to work properly in Windows 10.
*sad trombone*
Featured User Review:
Alas, there wasn’t much activity from our site members and dear readers during Spring, either, with no suitably eye-catching reviews submitted in the last 3 months. Maybe with the coming of Summer, more people will have the free time and motivation to finish some games and tell us what they think.
