Splatoon remains a unique fish in a big pond, but it’s starting to feel like it’s treading water.
The game’s reign in blood is short, but unique and brutal enough to make it one of the most refreshing FPS titles in recent memory.
The Saints’s whole idea of how to break the system in the first place simply reinforces all the old ideas that originally screwed them over.
The game’s biggest triumph is in accomplishing so much with the most basic of dramatic tools.
Elden Ring is FromSoftware taming the monster they created by giving players the weapons and armor to endure it.
The fondly conceived open world of Ghostwire: Tokyo isn’t bustling with life but defined by its unnerving absence.
WWE 2K22’s only major problems stem from the fact that it’s, well, a WWE game.
The game is devoted above all else to making the player believe that its world is worth saving and that its people are worth knowing.
The game runs away from any grand moment of clarity, skipping over self-reflection and settling for the thrill of nostalgia.
Few space shooters are as dedicated as Chorus is to making such an impact as an engrossing, thoughtful adventure.
There are excellent RPG ideas powering the game, but they’re left stranded in search of a worthwhile role to play.
Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy is blissfully freeing in a way that not many shooters are these days.
The game perfects the 2D trappings of Metroid’s mechanics and hands players so much freedom when it comes to exploration.
The game’s aesthetic is wondrous, but you may remember Eastward most for its disrespect for the player’s time.
Deathloop brings a considerable measure of liveliness to the by now moth-eaten concept of the time loop.
It may lack depth of interactivity, but the game is more of a trippy coming-of-age story than it is a career mode in Rock Band.
Twelve Minutes feels like Something Awful copypasta wearing the skin of an Ibsen play.
Review: Final Fantasy VII Remake Intergrade Is an Appreciable Detour on a Long Journey
All the things that made Final Fantasy VII Remake so great are on display here, albeit in truncated form.
Review: Mass Effect: Legendary Edition Gives a Great Trilogy the Makeover It Deserves
This set makes the galaxy that you’ll gallivant across for 90-plus hours feel so much more immersive, beautiful, and tangible-seeming.
The game branches the series out in new directions without trying to fix what wasn’t broken about its predecessor.