Beautiful Desolation is not a perfect game by all means. But damn, its atmospheric world and crazy, grotesque citizens are stealing the show, forcing you to beat the game just to see how many strange creatures you can meet along the way.
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Black Mesa is a great remake of the original Half-Life. The game is really fun to play, and Crowbar Collective not only manages to preserve the atmosphere of the Valve's creation, but make the overall experience even better.
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DOOM Eternal is, probably, the fastest and most brutal shooter on the market. But reworked combat system, a lot of (not so fluent) platforming elements and some other small issues here and there are keeping the sequel from beating the almost perfect DOOM 2016.
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The long awaited remake of the Resident Evil 3: Nemesis is here, but it fails to deliver the tense and scary atmosphere of the original game in every way. A lot of content has been cut, and new Nemesis is just a scripted clown rather than bloodthirsty killer.
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The final chapter of the remake may be disappointing for many fans of the original game. However, the rest of the remake is almost perfect renewal of the classic Final Fantasy VII, with greatly expanded Midgar, excellent battle system and lovely cast of characters.
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Cloudpunk has its share of problems with pacing and collectibles. However, the game still offers an interesting story, great driving and viscous cyberpunk atmosphere.
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Xenoblade Chronicles, even after 9 years, is still one of the best jRPGs around. Dive into game's massive world to experience the unforgettable journey.
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Mimimi Games once again proved itself as a modern king of the stealth tactics genre. However, Desperados III is dangerously similar to the Shadow Tactics and heavily relies on the ideas of the previous game.
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Hey, Zack, we are not perfect. Yet again. But hey, we are among one of the most unusual games released in recent years. Deadly Premonition 2 is charismatic, atmospheric, but definitely not for all. Fine with us.
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Paper Mario: The Origami King tried to be an RPG with adventure elements, but failed and became an adventure with miserably boring combat
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Skater XL is doing a great job trying to simulate real skateboarding as close as possible, but lack of content, modes and overall polish makes this game hard to stick to.
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From gameplay perspective, Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 1 + 2 has everything for the longtime series fans, and works like a time machine. However, changes in the progression system and addition of the profile leveling are killing the arcade mood of the original games.
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Crash Bandicoot 4 is visually similar to the classic trilogy, but in terms of gameplay, level design and overall feeling it falls behind Naughty Dog's masterpieces of the past.
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It seems that Supermassive didn't have enough time to fully realize the potential of "Little Hope". There's less interactivity and branching of the story here in comparison to previous studio's titles. This year's project is okay, but Supermassive definitely can do better.
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If you crave an old school action platformer, you definitely should try Cyber Shadow. This game is a nostalgic trip with great boss fights and amazing music.
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Bravely Default II is unnecessary sequel to the generic Bravely series. It has nothing similar with the classic jRPGs - one thing it can offer is mindless grind over mindless grind mixed with boring story. If you have time for games, better spent it playing something else.
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Nightdive has released a good remaster far from being a perfect game. However, despite some shortcomings, it is still worth trying both those who missed projects like Soul Reaver, and those who have not even heard of them. If it catches on, it won't fall behind.
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Shin Megami Tensei III is still one of the best games from Atlus, and one of the greatest jRPGs. Dark, unforgiving, but unbelievably hard to turn off. And this great journey now available on new platforms thanks to the remastered version.
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The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword HD is a great remaster of the weak game - HD-version fixed the most annoying things of the original. However, pacing issues as well as many strange decisions to block the progress are still here, and still prevent player to love this game.
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NEO: TWEWY is not a bad game at all. However, with its slow-paced story and uninteresting new characters (Shoka is exclusion here) the sequel could not reach the heights of the original TWEWY, which was a masterpiece.
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