Joonatan Itkonen's Reviews
Detective Pikachu Returns is a slight but charming mystery game for younger audiences. It won't last you a long time, and the graphics are plain at best, but it's still a light and breezy time that could be much worse. Shame about that price tag, though.
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Star Ocean: The Second Story R isn't just a terrific remake of a classic title, it's a revitalization of a franchise that at some point lost its way. With gorgeous graphics, a killer soundtrack, and a charming cast, Star Ocean: The Second Story R is a brilliant return to one of the original PlayStation's great triumphs.
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The Avatar movies aren't original, to begin with, but it's still a disappointment to see their potential wasted on such a derivative Far Cry expansion. It's a visual treat to explore Pandora. What a shame the gameplay is duller than a thousand years of cryo-sleep.
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I'd love to say that Cities: Skylines 2 is everything we could have hoped it would be, but right now it's more like a blueprint of an idea rather than a finished product. I'm sure it looks amazing to the architect, but the rest of us will have to deal with the broken mechanics and lackluster performance until the promises of a better tomorrow come to pass.
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A dark and twisted vision that mixes Hayao Miyazaki, Isaac Asimov, and Fables into a spellbinding whole, Lies of P won't set the world on fire with its clumsy gameplay mechanics, but the atmosphere and story are second to none.
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Mirage is easily among the best in the series, and a welcome throwback to the first years of the franchise. If you’re a fan, you’ll be in heaven. If you’re new to the series, this is a perfect place to start the journey.
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.