Star Wars: Dark Forces Remaster is a truly excellent re-release. Not so much because incredible new features and the latest in graphical splendour have been brought into play, but because Nightdive has taken the opportunity to make this Remastered a sort of historical document, a way for younger fans to feel the breeze of Kyle Katarn's adventures and for the more nostalgic to discover more about the game. Here's to Remasters made like this!
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Star Wars Battlefront Classic Collection is a beautiful return. Nostalgic, always charming, fun. The two games included in the package are true cornerstones of today's multiplayer shooters, and in this sense Aspyr's gimmick of opening the online servers is what, we hope, will highlight the operation and revive a community that has loved these classics for over a decade. We expect more operations of this kind in the future: Aspyr confirms itself as a safety, and long-time fans can only thank it, also for the launch price.
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Trapped in Limbo, the second DLC of Atomic Heart, is wrong. So wrong. Wrong in the way it wants to tell something, wrong in the attempt to turn the game into something else, wrong in intent and form. Hopefully Mundfish will heed these criticisms, but this is two DLCs out of two that fall far short of expectations. How many more times can we forgive them?
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Mario vs. Donkey Kong is a remake without great pretensions, for one of the funniest puzzle-platform games in the history of the mustachioed plumber. Without great pretensions, yes, but with various new features and also an almost hardcore drift that makes you think: perhaps the developers got carried away? Perhaps they tried to touch the chords of a more adult audience inclined to try to solve an enigma? Maybe. In all of this, the 2004 game has been brought back to light, and it's a good showing for Nintendo.
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Characterized by a unique graphic sector, Ultros is a metroidvania that dares a lot, both artistically and in terms of gameplay. Maybe even too much, in some circumstances. However, if you are nostalgic for games like Metroid Fusion, dive into the dreamlike atmosphere of Sarcophagus as soon as possible.
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Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League is a game that does everything it can to be fun. Really, everything: there are always missions to complete, enemies to eliminate, the gameplay is quite satisfying even if enormously chaotic, the weapons are as crazy as the protagonists, and the story is well written (until a few moments before the finale) . The problem is the very nature of the project, born at a time when this genre was being born and published at a time when this genre has already demonstrated its enormous limits. Rocksteady's Metropolis, then, doesn't have even a shred of the magnificence of Gotham City, and the endgame fails to make an impact, not even on the settings. We'll see what the future holds for us, but the impression is that Suicide Squad will be remembered as something that tried to cherish dreams of glory, and that it won't succeed. The real Rocksteady, let's be clear, is not this.
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The Last of Us: Part 2 Remastered is an essential piece to add to your PlayStation collection, especially if you've never had the chance to play the 2020 title. The re-release shines thanks to the power of the PS5 and the improvements made with the more performing hardware, also offering a series of tasty extras: the roguelike No Return mode is the real gem, proving fun and well structured even without offering new mechanics compared to the single player experience. Unlike the remake Part 1, where the launch price was understandably criticized, we also believe that the choice to offer an upgrade for €10 is an acceptable requirement given the work done.
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A little thought, at the end of the review. The person writing this review is not only a video game enthusiast, but is somehow involved with Bluethroot himself, as a teacher in a lower secondary school. The impact that Bluethroot can have on a student is potentially very significant, both for the topics that are covered and for the way in which they are treated. However, it is also necessary to remember that we are talking about very delicate topics, on which the eye of a more expert person cannot be omitted. The experience must necessarily be taken with caution, while exploiting the idea of interactive entertainment which tends to mitigate the heaviness of the atmospheres and problems that afflict the characters. Precisely for this reason we recommend using Bluethroot to a group of students for whom awareness becomes an important part of their life, probably not limited to high school but also to the transition phase with them. In any case, if you are a teacher or expert, we highly recommend trying Bluethroot before reaching a final decision.
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Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 does not live up to its predecessor, which in turn did not live up to MW 2019. The trend has been steeply downhill for years now, and this title is emblematic of that: beautiful and fun to play, unsuitable for an outlay of a good €80. Is this DLC masquerading as a new chapter? Yes, without a doubt: the massive recycling of content and a single player campaign probably made in a couple of days are proof of that. Luckily, MW3 has a very solid PvP on its side... but will it be enough to convince players to spend a very large - and above all unjustified - amount of money on this title again this year?
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FM24 is the usual, very solid chapter in the world's most famous and successful managerial series. This new chapter, more a 2.0 version of the previous title in truth, retains all the elements that make the managerial experience great: if you're a football fan and can't wait to put yourself to the test, here's the ideal game, again.
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True, many gamers expected more - and perhaps deserved more. But Konami's operation has not only brought back to our screens some immortal masterpieces that would otherwise be unrecoverable, or almost, but has also done exactly what was promised: to include the original games in a collection that does not want and did not want to be anything more. Even though the first MGS in particular has aged in its dynamics and controls, we are still faced with a collection of titles that made history in the medium, whose solidity is still intact today. Purchased recommendation? Only in two cases: if you're a die-hard fan who can't do without the series, or if, bearing in mind the enormous amount of time that has passed, you're ready to immerse yourself in some healthy retrogaming.
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Marvel's Spider-Man 2 doesn't represent the huge leap in quality that some expected, but it remains a great sequel: the game maintains the solid foundations of the two titles before it, and brings Peter and Miles together for a simply magnificent adventure. The gameplay has been further expanded with new attacks and abilities, resulting in increasingly varied fights, especially against bosses. It's just a pity for a certain superficiality in the handling of the open world, even if just fluttering through the skyscrapers of New York is still a wonderful experience.
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Undoubtedly, Empty Clip Studios did a very good job on the artistic side, restoring this 90s classic with a very clean style that is perfectly faithful to the Gargoyles' animated series. On the other hand, the game is hopelessly outdated in terms of gameplay, structuring itself as a platformer with poor mechanics. All in all, however, it is an enjoyable arcade adventure that will revive the memories of the nostalgic.
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Skull Island: Rise of Kong is a bad title, an obscene glorification of one of cinema's most famous monsters, a video game that is simply unacceptable in every respect. Don't buy it, unless you want to spite yourself or some of your enemies.
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Bud Spencer & Terence Hill: Slap and Beans 2 is another beautiful homage to the iconic duo of Italian cinema, a fun scrolling fighting game full of references and homages. Too bad only for some flaws in the gameplay, a sign of the fact that for a third chapter (?) there will be some other details to be ironed out. The news, however, is very satisfying.
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Mugen Souls Z is a fascinating game on the one hand, very problematic on the other. This porting, useful only for recovering the famous content censored in our territories, does not do justice to a title that is certainly not unforgettable but not even avoidable, which instead is lost in anonymity.
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Dimension Shellshock is a beautiful DLC for TMNT: Shredder's Revenge, which gives new life to one of the most successful titles of last year. Players may encounter a higher difficulty level than the main game, but the challenge is interesting enough to return to the world of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.
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Rayman in the Phantom Show is the DLC with which we say goodbye, hopefully not forever, to Mario+Rabbids: Sparks of Hope. The package is a lot of fun, the relaunch of Rayman was successful and Ubisoft Milano managed to give some other new features to a game that seemed to have said it all, even without being able to repeat the Donkey Kong miracle of the first chapter.
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