The game should feel wrong or disjointed with the conflicting elements it includes, but it all creates a strange, poignant, and often beautiful whole.

The game shows a developer operating with the best of intentions, attempting to offer up a party for every sort of player.

The game's focus is less on world-building than the simple, straightforward pleasure of its main mechanics: puzzles and combat.

With the release of its latest entry, the Mega Man series continues its struggle to remain artistically relevant.

Though visually sumptuous, the game doesn’t do much to strike a bolder, more mature path within a tired series.

As much as this is a better, more confident game than Yakuza 6, the series still has plenty of room to grow.

To its credit, Planet Alpha knows how to play to its strengths, delighting in both its graphical and mechanical savvy.

WarioWare Gold slightly redeems itself only after you’ve suffered through the feeble punchlines of the Story mode and have unlocked Challenge mode.

Even when you fail miserably at a task, the experience of playing the game is raucous and rewarding.

The game pulls its punches when depicting the rot at the heart of a northern border city’s law enforcement.