Like most games where the focus is moving players toward ever-bigger and ever-better caches of loot, the narrative ends up as the victim.

More than a tale of a son learning that his father was both a god and a murderer, God of War indicts the soul-crushing effects of a certain kind of manhood.

After years playing at guerilla warfare in foreign countries, Far Cry now brings the terror home to the U.S. of A.

Kirby’s powers are diluted when spread out across four players, yielding a more carefree experience.

Attack on Titan 2 gives profound insight to every second of a grueling struggle against humanity’s extinction.

Out of the three games in this collection, Devil May Cry 3 is the only one to stand up to the test of time.

Chuchel is an amusing diversion from a developer attuned to their considerable aesthetic strengths.

Appropriately, if not intentionally, Platinum Games’s Bayonetta games are about dichotomies.

A plethora of technical limitations transform this game’s quest for verisimilitude into a kind of farce.

The additional timeline never really questions the naïveté with which Radiant Historia preaches of self-sacrifice.