Joonatan Itkonen's Reviews
Poorly balanced, janky, confusing, and simply not fun, Lords of the Fallen is a prime example that just because you can make a Dark Souls clone doesn't mean you should.
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Mortal Kombat 1 is both a new beginning and a celebration of everything Kombat. It's a surprisingly fun and engaging action film where you get to play the best parts. The new game modes bring little to the table, but the main campaign is as fun as ever.
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Synapse is one of the first games to showcase what VR on a home console can be. It's fast-paced, inventive, and visually stunning. Sadly, it's not much more than that, as the repetitive gameplay can't keep up with the technical splendor. It's fine, but not the system-seller the PSVR2 needs right now.
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Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart is a masterpiece and one of the greatest platformers ever made.
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Incredible art direction and a fantastic atmosphere keep Blasphemous 2 interesting, even when the frustrating difficulty spikes do their best to make the game too frustrating to be any fun.
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Fires of Rubicon is the most accessible and fun installment in the iconic franchise. A gargantuan and immensely fun piece of robot mayhem that rewards the player at every turn.
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Atlas Fallen isn't remarkable or innovative, and you can clearly tell where its grand ideas run against the limited budget. But it's still fun to play, and sometimes that's enough for a title like this.
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Final Fantasy XVI is a revival and renewal of the classic franchise so sublime that it reminded me why I fell in love with the series in the first place.
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Diablo IV is a difficult game to review because it will be a completely different title a year from now. As it currently stands, it's full of great ideas which are almost uniformly poorly implemented. Give it 12 months, and it'll be something else, and that itself is a double-edged sword.
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Street Fighter is one of the oldest and most recognizable fighting series in history, and its latest edition is the best the franchise has ever been. That's an incredible feat few, if any, series can lay claim to, and Street Fighter makes it look easy.
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I really wanted Redfall to be great, but this is an empty and horrifically dull looter-shooter without a soul.
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As a sequel, Jedi: Survivor is arguably more fun than the first part of the series. Its sprawling open-world hubs, secret passages, and a healthy dose of customization, certainly bring more to the table. But bigger doesn’t necessarily mean that what we’re getting is more complex or refined. Most areas where Jedi: Survivor stumbles are precisely the same as its predecessor.
The prequel to one of the great action game titles out there is a smart and sweet adventure that just works. It's superbly pretty, wholesome, and genuinely fun, even if you're not a fan of Bayonetta's previous outings.
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It’s not a perfect game. It’s not for everyone, either. But if you’ve got a hankering for some zombie horror, there are very few games out right now that will do the trick with the same level of visceral thrills as this one.
Minecraft is an institution at this point, and while Minecraft Legends doesn't innovate as much as it thinks it does, there's still a lot to enjoy in this strategy-lite adventure for the whole family.
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Fire Emblem Engage focuses on just the basics, and for fans, that's exactly what it needs to do. It won't win any new converts, but for everyone who already loves this franchise, Engage offers some of the best thrills and tactical beats the series has created in years.
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Metroid Prime is a lovingly crafted remaster of an all-time classic that makes a case for Samus as one of the great action heroes in gaming. This is still a near-perfect title, one that has aged remarkably well thanks to smart quality-of-life updates. A must-buy.
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Octopath Traveler 2, the sequel to a flawed but ambitious RPG, improves everything about the original and emerges as one of the best games for the Nintendo Switch. Featuring a sprawling world and cast of unforgettable characters, it's an epic masterpiece that delights time after time.
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One Piece Odyssey could have been the game of the year in the early 2000s. Now, it's just a dated relic of a series that's best remembered for what it was, and not what it's become.
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The difference between good-bad and outright bad-bad is often a thin red line. Wanted: Dead is clearly the latter, and it doesn't even attempt to be anything else.
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