The game is at its most entertaining and gleeful when it is, indeed, just Mortal Kombat.
Earth Defense Force: Iron Rain makes a few much-needed tweaks to the old formula, but it's still just another bug hunt.
To enjoy the game is to believe that there can be purpose or joy in peeking around the most distant corners of our world.
With Take Us Back, Telltale's Walking Dead meets its true ending with the grace it deserves.
The game is a near-endless buffet of innovative options for turning enemies into mincemeat.
The game's bland mélange of competence feels like the deliberate, calculated, focus-tested murder of ideas.
There's a certain sneering satisfaction to defeating everything the game throws at you on a particular track.
Justin Clark played Yo-kai Watch for 40 hours. A copy of the game was provided by the publisher.
The game assures that the malicious ideas that guided Resident Evil 7 may become the governing principles of the series moving forward.
The game comes across like a love letter to everything that Super Mario Odyssey left behind.
One of the best of the modern Mario RPGs comes to 3DS with a few new tweaks and a cute new mode, and it's just as fulfilling as ever.
The ghost of Telltale gets one graceful and hopeful step closer to completing its unfinished business.
Above all else, said developer needs a near-bottomless imagination to make it so that pitting the greatest video game characters ever created against each other is as exhilarating to behold the umpteenth time out as it was way back in 1999
Meticulously researched and brimming with creativity, Cosmic Top Secret is a wonderful concept in search of a better game.
Spyro glides into the current gen prettier than ever and as fun as ever.
Despite an impressive roster and some top-notch actors to voice them, Lego DC Super-Villains is a tedious game that fails to capitalize on its best qualities.
In the end, there’s a purity to how SoulCalibur VI is so focused above all else on its spectacular swordplay and world building.
There's plenty of power and glory to be had in Odyssey. This is a vast swords-and-sandals epic that's rendered in the finest of details, and there's little else like it. Seeing it through to conclusion, however, has a major cost: your money or your patience.
Square delivers most of Final Fantasy XV in a smaller, but no less epic, package.
What might be the final episode of Telltale's The Walking Dead is beautiful, brutal, and bittersweet.