In the end, Melody of Memory is very much a fans-only affair.
A successful tech demo that allows one to truly feel like Iron Man, the game is also a strong superhero narrative in its own right.
Luigi might be luckless, but he's still a force to be reckoned with across this, the most variety-rich Luigi's Mansion game to date.
It's unfortunate that A Plague Tale's story falls short of its technical accomplishments.
The little that's good here isn't enough for one to shake off the faulty nature of the game's narrative and thematic machinery.
Overkill’s The Walking Dead certainly stokes the player’s despair, but not the sort that its developers intended.
There's no mystery to Union, which is grounded in exactly the way that the Beacon Mental Hospital was not.
The game's propensity for indulging counterintuitive elements feels like a willful act of self-sabotage.
Driven to Win's Takedown mode feels like exploitation, the video-game equivalent of tying fireworks to G.I. Joes.
Dead Rising 4 is a defanged sequel unlikely to satisfy fans of the series or appeal to new ones.