Pokémon Violet is easily one of the sloppiest-looking triple AAA titles in recent memory.
The game is an unholy hybrid of a roguelike deck-builder and escape-room experience.
Mørkredd is dazzling for the way it effectively puts you at war with yourself.
The game noticeably stumbles as it attempts to more overtly address the darkness beneath its concept.
The lack of all-new critters also seems to have given developers the opportunity to make up for the absence of a significant epilogue in the preceding versions.
A boilerplate brawler that’s almost entirely devoid of original style, and of interest only for the most faithful of Digimon devotees.
The game offers little long-term rewards for your time invested in its whimsical workshops.
In Pokémon X, Game Freak takes a few risks and profit greatly from them.
While you may lose days of your life to the lengthy dungeons and the micromanagement of your demonic menagerie, you won’t lose your soul.
Accepting numerous boilerplate-level tasks from the Request Board becomes tiresome after only a few hours of dedicated play.
The Fun Fest Missions actually make a difference in how well you perform in other areas of the game, such as battling and trading.
The game does well in keeping the player invested in narrative happenings between battles.
The constrained two-button setup and contracted ease of movement with the D-pad soon becomes incredibly bothersome.
While it might not spawn any fresh Poke disciples, Rumble Blast delights often enough to appease the acquainted.
So how does someone old enough to have voted for Paul Tsongas end up playing the new Pokémon game?