Steve Watts
Mario Kart Live: Home Circuit is Nintendo at its toyetic peak, with a magical AR effect that nonetheless requires some elbow grease to find the fun.
Evergate is a sweet-natured fable that plumbs the depths of its inventive mechanics with precision and grace.
The classic Castlevania homage is back, and it brings Bloodstained's delightful sense of weirdness with it.
Ninjala is a unique melee-focused multiplayer live game with tons of style and depth, but for now it's light on content and heavy on microtransactions.
Minecraft Dungeons is a welcoming dungeon-crawler entry point for newcomers and a lighthearted throwback for veterans.
Trials of Mana adds modern hooks to an obscure classic JRPG, but fluid combat is held back by some frustrating choices.
Nintendo Switch gets a mech game with depth in both combat and worldbuilding.
SolSeraph is a clear homage to ActRaiser, but some of the areas where it forges its own path put a damper on its potential.
Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night suffers on Nintendo Switch due to distracting technical issues.
Game Freak's ambitious puzzle-action platformer has a neat hook that never quite comes together.