Justin Clark
- Castlevania: Symphony of the Night
- Silent Hill 2
- Super Metroid
Persona 5 is the moment Atlus allowed the Persona series to truly grow up and earn that “M for Mature” rating.
Giant Sparrow's follow-up to The Unfinished Swan is a beautifully melancholy collection of parables.
Drawn to Death has a big imagination, but it does not play well with others.
Bulletstorm is a wide, cackling grin of a game that doesn't so much beg to be played but indulged in.
Parappa returns, looking like 2017, but still rapping like 1996.
Everything is a grand experiment that manages to inspire and disappoint in equal measure.
Malicious Fallen delivers some serious flash and flair alongside some serious frustration.
NieR Automata is the first game to truly stand up and greet ludonarrative dissonance as a friend.
Horizon Zero Dawn creates a world that captivates you just by the very act of having you feel as if you're living within it.
Diluvion tries to bring open-world exploration below sea level--but drowns in the process.
The game wears its influences on its sleeve, but also puts forth a Herculean effort toward surpassing them.
In terms of tone, viciousness, subtext, and sheer oppressive fear, Resident Evil 7 is a beast unlike its predecessors.
Telltale Games's take on the Dark Knight is a much-needed step forward in terms of placing gamers in Batman’s boots.
Final Fantasy XV is a game that chooses to leave its mythology disjointed and its emotions real.
On paper, Dishonored 2 is a marked improvement on almost everything the original game brought to the table.
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare Remastered, at its most well-executed, is a grueling slice of a very real nightmare.
The multiplayer doesn’t reinvent the wheel, but the single-player levels are delirious in their verticality and spectacle.
Justin Clark spent five hours cruising the sea for the dread monster Oceanhorn. He's made a sworn vow that, given enough money, he would pay to have Nobuo Uematsu score his life for a week. It's good to have goals. GameSpot was provided with a complimentary download code for the purpose of this review.
The Batman: Return to Arkham collection is the video-game equivalent of that old “You Had One Job” meme.
100ft Robot Golf lives up to the hilarity of its premise in every way, except when it has to be a golf game.