Velan Studios has turned Star Fox 64 into a graphical stunner, but we’ve seen this all before.
Despite the suspense and terror, there’s still a playfully self-aware spring in the game’s step.
To its immense credit, the choices you make across the game feel electrifying.
The game spurs you to tap into, and relish, the nuance and dynamism of its combat.
The game does everything it says on the tin, not much more or less.
The game in all its multiplicity comes off as a meaningful evolution for Grasshopper.
Mewgenics unlocks an astonishing level of depth and variety through its mechanics.
Like Nioh 3’s environments, your foes are gnarled and grotesque.
In this beautifully meditative mountain-climbing sim, our world is the enemy.
The game shines most in the ways in which it addresses and celebrates literature.
Rich in thrilling platforming elements, MIO is very much in the Hollow Knight mold.
Pathologic 3’s great achievement is its reexamination of the series from a new perspective.
Bitmap has sent game mechanics back in time and put them to work for good.
This is a Metroid game infected with elements from modern open-world titles.
Even when it digresses, the game always finds its way back to a compelling central rhythm.
While the machine has us enthralled, art can’t stop being art.
Lunar Software’s game is notable for how it builds tension on the margins.
To play the game is to feel control being wrested from you.
Don’t fall into the trap of thinking the game is easy just because it features Kirby.
This game’s strangeness scarcely counts as a unique spin on a familiar gameplay loop.
The combat is beyond reproach, but the game mistakes violence for drama.