The game is replete with diversions from your usual RPG bits of business.
Every inch of Super Mario Bros. Wonder is bursting with personality.
Sparks of Hope is more colorful, more fluid, and just all-around more fun than its predecessor.
Bowser’s Fury finds Nintendo again pushing the envelope of Super Mario Bros. in exciting directions.
Luigi might be luckless, but he’s still a force to be reckoned with across this, the most variety-rich Luigi’s Mansion game to date.
From the second you power on the game, its entire toy chest is open to you, no strings attached.
To enjoy the game is to believe that there can be purpose or joy in peeking around the most distant corners of our world.
The game comes across like a love letter to everything that Super Mario Odyssey left behind.
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.
The game shows a developer operating with the best of intentions, attempting to offer up a party for every sort of player.
WarioWare Gold slightly redeems itself only after you’ve suffered through the feeble punchlines of the Story mode and have unlocked Challenge mode.
The Switch delivers Captain Toad in a higher-resolution format, and with better gyroscopic controls.
Right from the start, Mario Tennis Aces, the eighth installment in the Mario Tennis series, feels inadequate.
More so than any pop game this year, Super Mario Odyssey sees virtual space as a land of elating possibilities.
Knack 2 falters when it stops reinventing elements from other games and starts cannibalizing itself.
Mario + Rabbids Kingdom Battle is one of the most creative turn-based tactical games in years.
The original Crash Bandicoot is better remembered for what it was and what it meant than what it is.
This port of the 2015 Wii U title Yoshi’s Wooly World doesn’t try to break the mold, though it’s certainly cuter.
Because creativity comes at the cost of cohesion, the whole adventure turns into one irritating mini-game.