Claudio Cugliandro


26 games reviewed
72.5 average score
70 median score
38.5% of games recommended
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Jan 31, 2020

Cardboard's work is an incredibly rich, complex, personal experience, but for which it is very easy to feel empathy, since it manages to tell from the popular and human perspective bigger events of each of us. A piece of video game history.

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Oct 26, 2018

An artistic manifesto of overflowing power.

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Jan 11, 2017

Red Rope is a very original experience, taking the risk to develop an unusual idea, which is based on few themes and gameplay elements, that are perfectly executed.

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9 / 10.0 - APE OUT
Feb 28, 2019

With a resoundingly evocative and cathartic ending, and with various, small secrets waiting to be unveiled by the community and by the players, Ape Out is already a classic of the genre, for its extraordinary aesthetic and sound style, and for the excellent quality of the his game design.

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9 / 10.0 - Disco Elysium
Nov 4, 2019

ZA / UM, authors of Disco Elysium, showed great courage in not pretending to revolutionize a genre, but in dedicating themselves body and soul to overcoming their limits by exploiting their merits.

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9 / 10.0 - Heaven's Vault
Nov 24, 2019

With Heaven's Vault Inkle offers us another amazingly packaged adventure, able to focus on very few playful elements, decorated with overflowing aesthetic and artistic qualities.

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8 / 10.0 - Pathologic 2
Jun 19, 2019

Thanks to its extraordinary aesthetic choices and his infinite variety of roleplaying approaches, combined with the depth and exquisite wickedness of survival mechanics, Pathologic 2 is confirmed as an original, atypical, dreamlike, violent and masochistic experience.

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Oct 1, 2019

Untitled Goose Game does not deserve to be played because of its being "game", but for the coherence of the authors in imagining, creating and pursuing an objective, which however simple and banal shows with strength a vision and a determined will.

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8 / 10.0 - Haven
Dec 3, 2020

Despite some snags both stylistic and design, Haven still manages to tell a traditional but effective love story relying precisely on those parts that other means of expression usually hide, or leave behind: the myth of Yu and Kay is built in battles with alien and corrupt creatures, but is deconstructed while we see them cooking, going to the bathroom or playing UNO (yes, we're not kidding!).

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8 / 10.0 - The Long Dark
Sep 14, 2017

And perhaps this reflection can really make us understand what The Long Dark is, in essence: the work of Hinterland Studio is the interactive and digital representation of an extraordinary ecosystem with a decisive cultural and historical value, which the authors wanted to allow everyone to explore, satisfying our playful and interactive needs, but obliging us in any case to live it in depth, with the dignity it deserves.

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7.5 / 10.0 - John Wick Hex
Oct 8, 2019

With courage, originality and a certain boldness, Bithell relies on the evidently inexhaustible innovative charge of his creative flair, absorbing the good things done by Super Hot and Hot Line Miami, giving us back an experience that is paradoxically at the antipodes and at the same time perfectly in line to the spirit of John Wick.

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Apr 9, 2017

Blackwood crossing is a game about love, death and pain, which tells a beautiful story in a simple and straightforward way.

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7 / 10.0 - Black The Fall
Jul 10, 2017

Black The Fall is a puzzle-platform set in a dystopian and dictatorial world, which echoes the political situation of Romania. Gameplay and storytelling are excellently connected with each other.

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7 / 10.0 - Gato Roboto
Jun 19, 2019

Without ever excelling or innovating in any element of its design, Gato Roboto proves to be a cohesive and immediate experience.

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Sep 7, 2019

Based on the perspective players approach Children of Morta, it is possible to frame it either as a disappointment or as a breath of fresh air.

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7 / 10.0 - Superliminal
Dec 12, 2019

Overall, the Pillow Castle experience is therefore a well-built puzzle game, certainly appreciated by fans of the genre, but unable to rival the sacred monsters of the category in terms of inspiration, originality and power of the story.

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7 / 10.0 - Pathway
Apr 21, 2019

Pathway achieves its goal in an excellent way, not adding anything revolutionary to the most traditional formula of its kind but without fully adhering to its structures. The product distances itself from the canons enough to be decidedly deserving: bluntly recommended to fans of the genre, who for about ten hours will be able to surprise themselves at every new crossroads, living with curiosity every event, every clash and every new random discovery.

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6.7 / 10.0 - Yes, Your Grace
Mar 21, 2020

Yes, Your Grace! she hesitates narratively and ludically exalts herself, giving us a solid and worthy experience, thanks to a worthy sound accompaniment and effective pixel art. Once the mistrust towards a fairly lacking main plot has been overcome, the latest effort by Brave at Night manages to highlight all its qualities, between difficult moral choices and arduous economic management.

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Renowned Explorer is a pretty original experience, with various features which allow us to customize our personal adventure. It's a pity that the game offers a lot of boring and redundant situations to the player.

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6.5 / 10.0 - Kona
Mar 17, 2017

Kona is an interactive thriller set in a cold, hostile and surreal place, but its interesting gameplay mechanics are limited by a linear progression.

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