Dave Ozzy, Author at TheXboxHub

Ashina: The Red Witch Review

Dave Ozzy — Sun, 10 Sep 2023 15:05:00 +0000

We’re still riding that feeling - the feeling of having zero expectations, only for Ashina: The Red Witch to grab hold of our attention for hours. Ah, if only more games surprised us like this.

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Embraced by Autumn Review

Dave Ozzy — Sun, 10 Sep 2023 12:48:32 +0000

The intro promises some future dramatic, potentially even salacious turns, but not one of the four different stories delivers. It’s all too tentative. In the end, Embraced by Autumn could have done with just a little more confidence and sass.

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Children of the Corn (2023) – Film Review

Dave Ozzy — Sun, 10 Sep 2023 12:46:21 +0000

Children of the Corn (2023) is just about the least horrifying of horror movies that we’ve watched in the past few years.

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Paint – Film Review

Dave Ozzy — Sat, 09 Sep 2023 13:43:45 +0000

Paint has such little respect for its characters that it becomes a hard watch. Catch some Bob Ross reruns instead.

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Transformers: Rise of the Beasts – Film Review

Dave Ozzy — Sat, 09 Sep 2023 10:44:00 +0000

Transformers: Rise of the Beasts is definitely a better movie than the original non-Energon Transformers saga, but also a less exciting one.

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The Many Pieces of Mr. Coo Review

Dave Ozzy — Sat, 09 Sep 2023 08:41:21 +0000

The Many Pieces of Mr. Coo is a free-wheeling, surrealist graphic adventure that’s so beautiful that sometimes we just want to sit back and admire.

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Elemental – Film Review

Dave Ozzy — Sat, 09 Sep 2023 07:47:55 +0000

The Death of Pixar? You’d be foolish to call it right now. With Elemental they may not quite be on fire, but they still have the power to warm the heart like few others.

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Losing our head with Nacho Rodriguez, the creator of The Many Pieces of Mr. Coo

Dave Ozzy — Sat, 09 Sep 2023 07:33:31 +0000

Looking like it stumbled out of the very earliest animations, The Many Pieces of Mr. Coo is a mixed media, surrealist graphic adventure that can’t help but catch the eye. We leapt at the chance to interview the man behind Mr. Coo, Nacho Rodríguez.

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Overdriven Evolution Review

Dave Ozzy — Fri, 08 Sep 2023 12:27:00 +0000

Colour-matching aside, Overdriven Evolution is a beast.

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Beautiful Sakura: Surfing Club Review

Dave Ozzy — Thu, 07 Sep 2023 14:54:47 +0000

Beautiful Sakura: Surfing Club is perhaps the most cynical, half-hearted attempt at weedling £10 out of someone’s pockets, and no amount of baby-oil and AI-generated creepy-fingers can justify its existence. If this is the future of gaming then stop the bus, because we’re getting off.

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Sisu – Film Review

Dave Ozzy — Wed, 06 Sep 2023 15:08:05 +0000

Sisu doesn’t truck with subtlety. Don’t be tricked by its Finnish origins and beautiful vistas. This is shock and gore. There’s a history lesson in there, but mostly you’ll be whooping as yet another Nazi explodes into a column of entrails.

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The Little Mermaid – Film Review

Dave Ozzy — Mon, 04 Sep 2023 18:54:48 +0000

The Little Mermaid (2023) is a remake that didn’t need to happen, with the only battle-plan for its existence being a plumping of the soundtrack and script.

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DPS Idle Review

Dave Ozzy — Mon, 04 Sep 2023 18:41:31 +0000

We can’t wave the red flag fast and hard enough: DPS Idle is not ready to play.

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Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny – Film Review

Dave Ozzy — Sun, 03 Sep 2023 16:17:24 +0000

The question of whether Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny justifies its own existence is a tough one.

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Beau is Afraid – Film Review

Dave Ozzy — Sun, 03 Sep 2023 15:47:29 +0000

My initial reaction to Beau is Afraid is that it’s uncomfortable to watch.

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Strike Force Kitty Review

Dave Ozzy — Sun, 03 Sep 2023 08:47:35 +0000

Strike Force Kitty swallowed up our attention for hours on end, and those hours were great. Plus, we are going to unlock that Chewbacca cat. We ARE.

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Shootvaders The Beginning Review

Dave Ozzy — Sat, 02 Sep 2023 15:23:58 +0000

Shootvaders The Beginning takes one too many leafs out of Space Invaders’ book.

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Family Man Review

Dave Ozzy — Sat, 02 Sep 2023 14:43:47 +0000

For some, Family Man will feel like a delicious challenge. For us, it made for a dark, relentless struggle that impressed with its scale, but was a few postcodes away from fun.

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Agriculture Review

Dave Ozzy — Sat, 02 Sep 2023 14:07:29 +0000

By slapping on a time limit and throwing crows at us every ten seconds, Agriculture started losing the simple joys that make farming games great.

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Hexapoda Review

Dave Ozzy — Sat, 02 Sep 2023 13:01:21 +0000

Hexapoda brings the retro shooter to the insect world, and the result is creepy, polished and a whole lot of fun.

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Catan – Console Edition: The Helpers Review

Dave Ozzy — Mon, 28 Aug 2023 11:45:33 +0000

Catan - Console Edition: The Helpers ends up being a safe but welcome first expansion to the base board game.

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Smurfs Kart Review

Dave Ozzy — Sun, 27 Aug 2023 15:41:59 +0000

The tracks are cleverly made and it runs well, but Smurfs Kart needed far more than that to register a scoring position.

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Gnomes Garden 8: Return of the Queen Review

Dave Ozzy — Sun, 27 Aug 2023 14:57:26 +0000

What we’re left with is half a game. Gnomes Garden 8: Return of the Queen stops abruptly halfway, thanks to a critical save bug, and it’s a flip of a coin whether you will emerge with your save game in one piece afterwards. At the moment it’s a no-brainer - don’t dare play this. Wait and see if 8floor address the issue.

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Puzzle by Nikoli W Kakuro Review

Dave Ozzy — Sun, 27 Aug 2023 13:59:19 +0000

Puzzle by Nikoli W Kakuro is inelegant, and far from the quality we expect from the masters at Nikoli. We’re going to leave it for only the rainiest of rainy days.

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Envasion Review

Dave Ozzy — Fri, 25 Aug 2023 16:22:14 +0000

While there are some interesting RPG frills around the edges of Envasion, this is a Space Invaders-like shooter that lacks speed, bombast and variety. Envasion, sadly, is one to evoid.

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Cat Souls Review

Dave Ozzy — Thu, 24 Aug 2023 19:30:05 +0000

What a strange experience playing Cat Souls was. Our interest curve would look a little like a ski slope.

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Teslagrad Remastered Review

Dave Ozzy — Thu, 24 Aug 2023 19:22:47 +0000

If you feel like you’ve seen most of what puzzles in games have to offer, you might want to try Teslagrad Remastered.

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Hidden Shapes: Cat Realm + Trick or Cats Review

Dave Ozzy — Thu, 24 Aug 2023 13:10:14 +0000

If you want to brainlessly toss away an hour or two of your evening, then Hidden Shapes: Cat Realm + Trick or Cats is where it’s at. You’ll emerge from the session afterwards feeling like all of the mental knots and tensions have been massaged into nothingness.

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The Rabbit Crazy Adventure Review

Dave Ozzy — Thu, 24 Aug 2023 12:36:16 +0000

Sure, The Rabbit Crazy Adventure is functional, and we managed to cross the finish line, but that’s no measure of a good game.

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Cassette Beasts Review

Dave Ozzy — Tue, 22 Aug 2023 18:28:04 +0000

Cassette Beasts might not be as immediate as a certain pocket-monster game on another platform, but its depths are more cavernous.

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