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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Beyond Good and Evil 20th Anniversary Edition is an authentic classic, remastered with love and care by an Ubisoft that this year, we must admit, is surprising us in a positive way. Despite an excellent job on the graphical and technical front, which has brought a game with 20 years of activity on its shoulders up to date, one incontrovertible fact remains: Beyond is still an extraordinary experience, a unique game that has never been attempted again, perhaps unrepeatable. While waiting for the sequel, don't miss this one. The very low, and ideal, price is a great ticket for a hovercraft ride in Hillys...
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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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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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Super Mario Party Jamboree is a majestic title, the best in the series among those released on Switch, and a symbol of a Nintendo that wants to experiment and amaze again and again. We are probably facing the first chapter of a new course for the saga, a bit like Bowser's Fury and Super Mario Bros: Wonder were. The basis of a great future, if Nintendo is able to replicate itself.
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The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom is the franchise's grand farewell to Switch, and perhaps it couldn't get any better than this. Overlooking a few technical issues (the console has clearly reached its limit, someone save the Switch soldier!), Echoes of Wisdom brings with it a renewed wind of opportunity and possibility to the series, winking at the evolution of BOTW and TOTK but still having its own distinct identity and fun gameplay. The perfect blend of new and classic, on which Nintendo could build the future of the series - or at least a branch of it.
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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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Paper Mario and the Thousand-Year Portal is just what we needed: a fine remake that brings back one of the best games of Mario's RPG drift, perhaps the best. As we've been saying for some time, honour to Nintendo for these valuable preservation operations: the title in question is rejuvenated thanks to the brand new visual compartment, and hasn't aged a day in the brilliant mechanics and widespread humour that runs throughout the production. 2024 confirms itself as the year of memories for Nintendo fans.
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Call of Duty: Black Ops marks a great comeback for Treyarch's franchise, as well as a very important restart after a MW3 made of and with laziness. The single player campaign is enthralling, the multiplayer entertains in all its forms, and the Zombies mode caters to all palates, from historical fans to new ones. A great COD.
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Epic Mickey Rebrushed is a successful remake, a production that manages to restore lustre to a game that was appreciated in its time but also characterised by many macroscopic flaws. Purple Lamp has managed to limit many of these problems, in some cases fixing them, even if some of them are inevitably linked to the title's concept. However, the work done is enough to give Epic Mickey a new chance, which now shines brighter than ever before with its distinct creativity.
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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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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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System Shock was and still is a seminal video game. The remake of Nightdive does perfect justice to this classic immersive sim that created an entire genre, with a splendid graphical compartment and some insights that modernise the whole thing. At the same time, it should be pointed out that having proposed an almost 1:1 remake brought back some of the flaws of the original, and prevented the entire system from being modernised.
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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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In conclusion, The War Within is currently one of the most comprehensive and satisfying expansions, at the time of its launch, of World of Warcraft in recent years. Only time will tell if Activision Blizzard will be able to keep the bar high.
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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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As interesting as the art direction and various game mechanics are, Mario & Luigi: Fraternal Charge is probably not the great comeback that many fans were hoping for, due to some choices that detract from its formula and enjoyment. The basic structure seemed excessively repetitive (perhaps the concept is starting to age a little too much?), and it failed to recapture the charisma of other Nintendo productions. It remains a cute, enjoyable and universally enjoyable RPG, even if we were hoping for something more for the return of this historic and beloved series.
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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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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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