Evan Norris's Reviews
Redout is a decent racing experience overall, chiefly for fans of moribund franchises like WipEout and F-Zero.
A serviceable sandbox shooter with wasted potential.
Shakedown: Hawaii has a lot to do and see, and maybe even more to say.
There's a lot to like here, for folks who crave cerebral strategy, reflex-based racing, and a good sense of humor.
Mortal Kombat 11 is an outstanding fighting game with new, more deliberate mechanics, a spectacular story mode, and loads of online and offline content.
Built according to the structure of Nintendo's 1988 take on ice hockey, it's an accessible arcade sports game that's particularly fun in local four-player bouts.
Arcade Classics is a satisfactory anthology for the Konami faithful.
Avalanche's successes in world-building and player freedom are significant, but insufficient to turn this love song to 1980s Sweden into a hit.
Show a lot of patience and the game will find a way to reward you.
Silky gameplay, bright graphics, and stellar MegaMech encounters make it required playing for fans of run-and-gun action.
With novel mechanics, new characters, and an ambitious expansion of the franchise universe, Blaster Master Zero 2 ranks among the better indie games so far this year.
You'd think a game with superfluous storytelling, repetitive gameplay, and relatively shallow hack-and-slash mechanics would struggle to coalesce into something decent, but this anime action title manages to do just that.
Considering the long time Crackdown 3 spent in development purgatory, it's not as bad as it could have been.
If you can look past some low-budget graphics, there's a nice stealth experience waiting for you in Aragami.
One of the deepest, most substantial, most polished productions of 2019.
With its anime stylings, rogue-lite rules, and hack-and-slash gameplay, RemiLore is an interesting experiment.
In this Valentine's Day metaphor, it's six roses short of a dozen.
Anyone who grew up loving Castlevania and Demon's Crest, keep this game on your wish list. Just don't pull the trigger until a patch is released.
Oniken is a faithful reproduction of something that wasn't very good to begin with.
If you can gather a team of four players and don't mind consulting a FAQ every now and then, this might be a good investment.