All the things that made Final Fantasy VII Remake so great are on display here, albeit in truncated form.
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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.
The extensive refinement allows for a better appraisal of a game that swung and missed on its initial release.
Judgment isn’t quite so ready to put away childish things.
At its best, Outriders is a looter shooter that’s surprisingly generous with its loot.
Strikers is still a well-earned vacation for our heroes, an emphatic, energetic punctuation mark to a much larger experience.
Bowser’s Fury finds Nintendo again pushing the envelope of Super Mario Bros. in exciting directions.
The Medium is at its best whenever the player gets to lives up to the game’s title.
The blandness of the gameplay might have been somewhat forgivable if the game’s narrative didn’t suffer from an identity crisis.
Along with being one of the most gentle and soothing games of the year, Haven is also gaming at its most compassionate.
It’s an addictive, delightfully rowdy experience in spite of the creaky, decrypt gameplay and engine.
The game is fairly dedicated to correcting many of the worst creative decisions made across the lifespan of the Assassin’s Creed series.
Even the PS5’s most grandiose examples of a remake still pay more tribute to the past than they provide a window to the future.
Star Wars Squadrons proves that last year’s excellent Jedi: Fallen Order was no fluke.
Everything truly good in Marvel’s Avengers is compromised by its mercenary feature set.
To say that the game feels like a relic from a different age would be an understatement.
The game has the look of a thoughtful samurai epic, but the façade flakes under scrutiny.
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The game displays a thorough, haunted understanding of what cruelty for cruelty’s sake can do to the soul.
Its occasional pizzazz, including Shoji Meguro’s blissful J-pop soundtrack, is undermined by how hard it often is to actually look at the game.