Justin Clark
- Castlevania: Symphony of the Night
- Silent Hill 2
- Super Metroid
With the newest update, No Man's Sky surpasses even its own far-reaching ambitions.
After seven years, Kentucky Route Zero reaches the end of the road, and the full portrait it paints is melancholy and sorrowful but also absolutely beautiful.
While the new features and missions are nice, the world around us has made Death Stranding better.
This isn't just a nostalgic copy of the games of the medium's youth, but also a fever dream of what the 8-bit era was capable of.
Someone will likely prove this statement wrong, but there hasn't been a game that's run this far with the storybook conceit, and if there is, it's a near-certainty it wasn't executed with this much beauty, heart, and care.
There's only two questions that matter: "Do you love Nintendo?" and "Do you enjoy hitting things 'til they go flying off into the stratosphere?"
Final Fantasy XV is a game that chooses to leave its mythology disjointed and its emotions real.
It's an experiment that acts as a deconstruction and overjoyed celebration of everything Super Mario Bros.
Persona 5 is the moment Atlus allowed the Persona series to truly grow up and earn that “M for Mature” rating.
Beneath Cuphead's staggeringly wild aesthetic lurks the steel-hard, unforgiving soul of a run-n-gun shooter.
One of the finest, most relatable examples of the incredible empathy that video games are capable of inspiring.
The game comes down to the indisputable truth that, when it comes to space travel, the journey is everything.
Everything that made Horizon Zero Dawn the outstanding work that it is undeniably carries over to The Frozen Wilds.
This is a gleaming example of how to craft a fighting game that feels like it has its arms open for everyone to enjoy.
God of War doesn't so much suggest its ready-to-rumble predecessors as it does a more forgiving Dark Souls.
After the series spent eight years bouncing around gaming platforms, it finally feels like it's found a true home on the Switch.
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
The game is a near-endless buffet of innovative options for turning enemies into mincemeat.
The game assures that the malicious ideas that guided Resident Evil 7 may become the governing principles of the series moving forward.
As varied and intriguing as the game can get on a conceptual level, it outdoes itself in the minutiae of traversal and combat.