Simon Parkin
Lost Sphear is a more ambitious JRPG than its predecessor, yet it risks abandoning its purpose to return to the genre's simpler days.
The true sequel to the best-loved contemporary JRPG is unrestrained in its ambition, and the result is a chaotic kind of brilliance.
A harmonious meeting of two traditions, Fire Emblem Warriors explores a different, yet no less beguiling, type of battlefield strategy.
A modern indie classic on PC finds in Nintendo's Switch the perfect platform.
A brutal game that's equal parts frustrating and exhilarating, delivered in the mesmerising style of a prohibition-era cartoon.
A vibrant interpretation of golf that expands on the series' distinguished lineage without compromising, or distracting from, its strengths.
Final Fantasy's weirdest, most wonderful curio is a bright reminder of the power of crisp invention in high-risk blockbuster development.
Samurais vs. Chocobos.
Developer Impulse Gear has made an earnest attempt at a VR version of Halo, but the game, and its strange PlayStation Aim Controller, fall short of the target
The designer behind Harvest Moon returns with a game that frustrates as much as it fascinates.
An elegiac, memorable and affecting tale of the misfortunes suffered by the members of a deeply eccentric family.
The FMV thriller is fully exhumed in this splicing of game and cinema, where high production values fail to obscure the creative fissures.
It may look like a game for children but this primary coloured, Kickstarter-funded platformer is catnip for 30-somethings who came of age with Banjo-Kazooie
Latest in long running high-school franchise boasts characters as deeply written and well observed as a multi-season TV series
Relentless and brutal, this post-apocalyptic pixel art survival quest is a gruelling, if often beguiling, challenge.
It's testament to Taro's talent for storytelling that the game inspires replay as much through its narrative hooks as its baser promise of trophies and a 100% competition record.
A characteristically imaginative minigame suite that lays out the possibilities of Nintendo's new console, without feeling like a guidebook.
This period study of the arcade's formative beat 'em up has its charms, but the sense that this is a game out of time is not easily shaken.
Capcom’s survival horror series goes back to its origins as a truly shocking, challenging and terrifying experience
A JRPG classic is revived for 3DS, and the years haven't dimmed its charm in the slightest.