Tomas Franzese's Reviews
Marvel's Midnight Suns is as good of an RPG as it is a strategy game.
Pentiment does an excellent job of making my journey feel natural, with results that directly reflect my dialogue and action choices.
While not outright broken like Sonic the Hedgehog (2006) or Sonic Boom, Sonic Frontiers is a heavily misguided game that muffles good ideas with questionable narrative, technical, and gameplay design decisions.
Gotham Knights isn't very ambitious and has performance issues, but it should still please Batman fans.
New Tales from the Borderlands' story, characters, and visuals trump a lack of genre innovation.
Soulstice's terrible camera holds back an otherwise ambitious and inspired action game.
Madden NFL 23 is an improved game when compared to Madden NFL 22, but that isn't enough to make it good.
Saints Row is a perfectly fine open-world game. Just don't expect any surprises, as the reboot lacks much character.
MultiVersus feels like a corporate product, but Player First Games gets the most out of its ridiculous premise.
As Dusk Falls is an atypical narrative adventure game with a compelling story about family.
Kao the Kangaroo is a fun 3D platformer franchise revival with solid platforming and less-than-solid narrative.
Lego Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga has lots of ambition but lacks focus.
Final Fantasy Origin will enthrall players with its dumb, but awesome story and approachable Soulslike gameplay.
Gran Turismo 7 lives up to its "real driving simulator" tagline by offering a comprehensive and educational racing game.
Grid Legends' Driven to Glory story misses more than it hits, but this is an otherwise solid, if unambitious, racing game.
OlliOlli World delivers beautiful, fast-paced, and captivating skateboarding fun.
Rainbow Six Extraction's ridiculous plot and repetitive nature prevent the experimental spinoff from achieving its full potential.
Brilliant Diamond lacks ambition and will frustrate fans of Pokémon Platinum more than it pleases. Still, an extremely faithful classic Pokémon remake might be just what we need before Game Freak wildly changes up the formula with 2022’s Pokémon Legends: Arceus.
It can’t match Forza Horizon 4 in terms of innovations, but Forza Horizon 5 introduces a more varied open-world structure in one of the most visually stunning experiences of this new console generation — perhaps ever.
Back 4 Blood' has the best water-cooler moments of any game released in 2021.