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Mad Max offers great car combat and some gorgeous scenery, but with simplistic fighting mechanics and tedious activities, it quickly loses its luster.
Resident Evil: Revelations 2 - Episode 2 offers a few great action sequences, but it's still plagued by mundane puzzles and forced reliance on your partner.
The Ultimate Edition of Castlevania: Lords of Shadow breathes new life into the three-year-old game through improved graphics and extra content.
Detroit: Become Human presents a gripping tale that's occasionally sullied by blatant missteps.
Doom remains a blast to play on Switch despite some persistent performance issues.
Xenoblade Chronicles 2 is a massive and dense game littered with small issues that hold it back from greatness.
Linelight is a minimalistic puzzle game that draws you in with its tranquil atmosphere and tests your mettle with ever-increasing challenges.
I Am Setsuna is an unapologetic homage to beloved Japanese RPGs that plays well but takes few risks. Tokyo RPG Factory has accomplished their implied mission statement: to make Japanese RPGs the way many of us remember them back in the day. As a result, I Am Setsuna walks in the footsteps of giants, and is thus dwarfed by the memories of games that inspired it.
The mediocre AI and animations return, as does the need to repeat the same old spy tricks, but they take a backseat this time around as Sapienza and its colorful denizens take center stage.
No Man's Sky is a massive machine with broken and missing parts, but dig deep enough and you'll be moved in ways you never expected.
Fire Emblem Fates: Conquest is a punishing strategy RPG that marches forward and never looks back.
Klaus is an unusual, post-modern platformer that reflects on what it means to be alive.
Gravity Rush's acrobatic heroine and fairytale metropolis feel at home in the PS4 remaster of the 2012 Vita hit.
Street Fighter 5 is missing essential elements, but its fighting engine is one of the best around.
Resident Evil Zero HD makes an already good survival-horror game better with upgraded visuals, modern controls, and an exciting new way to play.
The first full-fledged Star Fox game in years mixes classic stylings with unconventional controls. But does it deliver?
The first episode of Hitman has a lot to offer creative assassins, but enjoying it requires you to look past an array of inconsistencies.
Resogun: Defenders delivers more energetic action in two new modes.
Resident Evil: Revelations 2 gets off to a rough start with poor writing and safe design choices, but it's redeemed by strong doses of tension during the second act.
Claire and Barry's trip to the island from hell is almost over, but how it ends is up to you.