The game not only gets you to behave like a rampaging gorilla, it forces you to adapt like one.
There’s a certain sneering satisfaction to defeating everything the game throws at you on a particular track.
As you watch Talma’s existence fade, you grasp the importance that every moment can have on a mortal plane.
The game has even less to say about religious cults, belief systems, and American politics than its predecessor.
At the very least, the game’s epic trials will make you respect the practitioners of this most insane of sports.
The game ultimately seems less interested in the process of how humanity breaks down than its grisly end results.
The little that’s good here isn’t enough for one to shake off the faulty nature of the game’s narrative and thematic machinery.
The game assures that the malicious ideas that guided Resident Evil 7 may become the governing principles of the series moving forward.
The world the game shares with its predecessors is detailed and bizarre in equal measure.
The art of a game, however distinctive, matters little if it isn’t accompanied by functionality.
There are few greater thrills than discovering a new, powerful combo in Slay the Spire.
The game comes across like a love letter to everything that Super Mario Odyssey left behind.
At its best, the game leaves you by your lonesome to get to know the “deep blue” sky as intimately as possible.
The effectiveness of the game’s humor doesn’t always tie back to the concept of Bowser as a frustrated, impotent vessel.
It takes more than a little bit of genius to allow a game as accessible as this to still keep the door open for in-depth competitive play.
This list recognizes games many of us love, but it devotes as much space to ones a few of us are passionate about.
At least the game’s big-picture effects play to the developer’s strengths, particularly those of its new, proprietary Apex engine.
Mutant Year Zero feels most of all like a promising start for something potentially greater.
There’s little to love about Darksiders III, even for longtime fans.
It’s easy to imagine the result of a project that had exclusively set out to radically reimagine the first entry in the Spryo series.
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