Jed Pressgrove's Reviews
At its best, Sonic Mania makes classic zones from past Sonic the Hedgehog games feel unpredictable again.
Mario + Rabbids Kingdom Battle is one of the most creative turn-based tactical games in years.
Even in its remastered form, this expansion stands tall as a relatively focused and uncomplicated action experience.
More so than any pop game this year, Super Mario Odyssey sees virtual space as a land of elating possibilities.
This highly anticipated sequel to Xenoblade Chronicles is one of the most overindulgent games of the year.
Developer Will O'Neill's bluntness fulfills Little Red Lie's philosophy of being honest no matter what.
Iconoclasts is an ironic, humanistic critique of religion as much as it is a masterful take on a traditional game genre.
A plethora of technical limitations transform this game's quest for verisimilitude into a kind of farce.
Metal Gear Survive aligns itself with too many corporate gaming shenanigans to register as unadulterated fun.
Following the lead of Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons, the game builds toward an incredibly sobering conclusion.
The various forms of Street Fighter II are indisputably the main historical attraction of this collection.
It's electrifying in how it goes out of its way to ensure that you're constantly in the middle of nail-biting action.
Dark Souls Remastered shows that just as the extra visual definition giveth, it also taketh away.
Right from the start, Mario Tennis Aces, the eighth installment in the Mario Tennis series, feels inadequate.
At least one aspect of the gameplay inadvertently confirms the feeling that Blazkowicz is just a shell of a person.
The world design and storytelling often fail to match the high standards set by the game's ambitious ancestors.
The game comes down to two rival parties blandly lumbering toward each other on largely identical stages.
Though visually sumptuous, the game doesn't do much to strike a bolder, more mature path within a tired series.
The fact that Capcom can't make this decades-old maneuver feel effortless is evidence that this series might need to go in a trash compacter like old machinery.
With so many different factors to manipulate on your way to reaching ridiculously high character levels, it's almost impossible to see any end in sight to the game.