The combat is beyond reproach, but the game mistakes violence for drama.
The way the game’s various mechanical ideas fit together is exhilarating.
The game is a brilliant rebuttal to those who think that politics have no place in video games.
There are excellent RPG ideas powering the game, but they’re left stranded in search of a worthwhile role to play.
Poison Control rarely goes beyond the cheap laughs to be had from its story.
Strikers is still a well-earned vacation for our heroes, an emphatic, energetic punctuation mark to a much larger experience.
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.
The game speaks in specific and effective ways to the sheer exhaustion of living in perpetual strife.
The additional timeline never really questions the naïveté with which Radiant Historia preaches of self-sacrifice.
Persona 5 is the moment Atlus allowed the Persona series to truly grow up and earn that “M for Mature” rating.
Exist Archive is bound to end up as a footnote, perpetually overshadowed by the titles that it so earnestly emulates.
It might boast a roster of wannabe pop idols, but the battle system is the real star of the show.
Tales of Zestiria relies entirely upon its entertaining, colorful cast of characters to distract players from anything even remotely tedious or derivative.
If there’s a single downside, it’s that with a cast of over 16 characters, only five of whom can physically be in your party, there’s very little reason to play around with your party’s composition.
Whether you’re playing with friends at home, emulating the arcade experience online, getting intimate with the single player story, taking fighting lessons from the computer, or grinding experience, this is the entire package.
Each and every character has a singular charisma all their own, adding increased depth to an already stunningly immersive melting pot of a role-playing universe.
The material put forth is appealing enough to the senses that it can be arduous to avoid doing some research on the subject and returning when better educated.
Atlan’s black-and-white Mortem has been billed as a “metaphysical thriller” inspired by David Lynch and Ingmar Bergman.
A film like Certified Copy explodes truisms about acting.
While everyone will appreciate Atlas taking the time to add the “choose a gender” feature to this portable iteration, some shortcuts were made to make a portable version of Persona 3 possible.