Justin Clark
- Castlevania: Symphony of the Night
- Silent Hill 2
- Super Metroid
The 25th Ward's splintered narrative will frustrate and confuse, but also fascinate.
After the series spent eight years bouncing around gaming platforms, it finally feels like it's found a true home on the Switch.
The Secret of Mana remake is mostly the same game you know and love, for better and for worse.
There's something to be said for that in the current landscape. Monster Hunter World is a game full of people all striving to achieve their common goals within a set of gameplay mechanics that doesn't so much actively discourage going at it alone as encourage collective work, where the learning is never truly finished.
A classic has been reincarnated as one of the most visually magnificent titles of our current generation.
This is a gleaming example of how to craft a fighting game that feels like it has its arms open for everyone to enjoy.
A rare prequel that actually enhances its predecessor, The Inpatient takes a subtle but effective approach to psychological horror in VR.
Tiny Metal brings accessible turn-based military strategy back into the spotlight
Hello Neighbor seems inviting at the outset, but its clumsy, obtuse approach to stealth will have you searching for the exit.
Unless you're an extremely quick study, the game's weirdly unintuitive control scheme will very likely get in your way.
Even with a new coat of graphical paint, L.A. Noire remains a game that adds up to less than the sum of its parts.
Doom's trademark demon slaying translates well to virtual reality, but Doom VFR feels more like a warning shot than a BFG blast.
Battlefront II is actually a rather fitting sequel to its immediate predecessor, which was itself a fun, visually phenomenal but woefully shallow and convoluted experience. Everything that was right with the original game is exactly as it was before. Everything that wasn't, however, has mutated into something more craven and significantly uglier.
Grumpyface's second RPG based on Steven Universe is made of love, but it's the bugs that are stronger than you.
Everything that made Horizon Zero Dawn the outstanding work that it is undeniably carries over to The Frozen Wilds.
Chloe Price's terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day goes to some fascinating places in this middle chapter.
Megaton Rainfall pulls off some feats and squanders others, but one's thing's for sure: there's no other superhero game like it.
The game is determined to kill what Assassin's Creed once was in the hopes of the series becoming something greater.
The saving grace is that the game is mechanically one of the best, most accessible RPGs crafted in a long time.
Middle-earth: Shadow of War doubles down on every single aspect of Shadow of Mordor, for better and worse.