Joonatan Itkonen's Reviews
Intense and brutal, DOOM Eternal is a furious continuation of the nightmarish saga.
When I wasn’t playing it, I thought about tactics to use for my next dungeon crawl. I needed to know where this world had gone wrong, and I didn’t want to stop until I finally had answers. If that’s not a solid recommendation, I don’t know what is.
Fallen Order is the first halfway-decent Star Wars game in years, and that alone allows for way more leeway than it probably deserves. Just the fact that this is playable and reasonably fun in short bursts compared to anything we’ve seen done with the license for so long makes it worthwhile to at least try. It’s just a shame the bar has to be that low in the first place.
At its heart, Death Stranding is a wonderful experience, one that I wouldn’t hesitate to recommend for everyone. It has moments of staggering beauty and clarity where you could swear the medium transcends into something better.
I want to recommend Red Dead Redemption 2. I really do. It’s great to see game developers putting their weight behind mature, story-driven games like this, and that kind of emphasis deserves praise. I love the melancholy mood and influences from the neo-western masterpiece The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford. A part of me even admires the stubborn obsession with meticulous detail the game prides itself on. But at the same time, all of that doesn’t amount to something that's actually fun to play, not to me at least. It feels like a chore; like something I’m playing because I admire it for what it tries to be, instead of enjoying it for what it is.
Despite my complaints, The Outer Worlds is among the finest games released this year. It’s a fun adventure that kept me glued to the screen for the twenty-plus hours that the main story took to complete