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In conclusion, A Tale of Paper: Refolded  is a brief affair with limited replayability outside of the need to pick up any collectibles you likely missed on your first playthrough. The extra levels bump up what is available a little, but unless you’re going for the platinum trophy you’re unlikely get more than a couple of hours from this. We clocked nine, though many came from replaying to mop up matters as well as leaving the game idle on multiple occasions.

In conclusion, Alfred Hitchcock – Vertigo is an unexpected bit of fun that we didn’t see coming, nor did we expect to enjoy it as much as we did. The implementation is a bit janky for sure, but if you look past that, this is a fun reinterpretation of a cinema masterwork. We ask that you watch that after having played this. We just wish that it wasn’t so enamoured with QTEs. Thanks for popularising them Shenmue.

The Five Covens is a student project that would be too expensive if it was priced at a fiver rather than the frankly laughable £10 it’s actually up on the PSN store for. Bad controls, bad camera, bad mechanics. Bad. We played it so you don’t have to. Spend your money on something else.

In conclusion, Concept Destruction is a nice idea let down a little in terms of the sheer scarcity of it all.  Shame the Vita port didn’t come to pass, though we won’t mark it down for that.

Delta Squad is a turgid built for four player shooter with overlong levels and no progress saving. It’s the very definition of a Ratalaika one and done, as we’re most definitely done here.

For the most part though, Effie is a great 3D platformer in a bright and breezy world. Well except for the dark Woodborn level that’s shrouded in mist anyway. Impressive visuals and generally solid platforming make up for the few frustrations. A special mention to the Windmill Town level for being a great series of set pieces with obvious progression, we’ll leave it to you to discover.

Some of the set pieces feel arbitrarily hard for no good reason, which is a real shame as for a game that focuses so heavily on story, you’ll occasionally feel you can’t go any further due to repeatedly failing the same section over and over again. The BMX section in particular is guilty of this and this reviewer had to stop short of completing the story due to being unable to get past another mini-game where you have to hammer buttons like you were playing Daley Thompson’s Decathlon on the Spectrum. Very frustrating.  A better option would be to give you the opportunity to bypass the section after a certain number of failures, the button hammering being a prime example where this could come into play.