Ashley Shankle
Atelier Ryza 3 improves upon its predecessors in a warm sendoff to Ryza and friends.
Darktide is amazingly fun and disgustingly beautiful, but it's by no means perfect.
Sonic Frontiers gets the most important thing about the Blue Blur right, and some other things, too.
The Delicious Last Course is just about everything a fan of Cuphead could have asked for, with bosses just as and even more zany than those found in the base game.
Dynasty Warriors 9 Empires can't make up for the shortcomings baked into the Dynasty Warriors 9 framework.
SNK vs. Capcom: Card Fighters' Clash holds up well from a gameplay perspective and is a great dive for fans of either publisher.
WarioWare: Get It Together is probably one of the best and most frantic multiplayer games on the Nintendo Switch.
Sonic Colors: Ultimate brings new visuals and some new bits and bobs from the original release, but it lacks the punch of some other entries to the series.
Legend of Mana is as it's always been: an alluring puzzle of an RPG.
Prison Architect: Second Chances adds some features the game has sorely needed for some time, but as usual for PA DLC, it's not without its issues.
SaGa Frontier Remastered brings nothing but good things to this classic and unforgiving RPG.
Monster Hunter Rise does more than rise to the occasion: it utterly outdoes itself.
Going Green adds some new labor and a whole lot more to Prison Architect's already long list of features.
Romance of the Three Kingdoms 14 is accessible to casual players, but it sneakily removes the depth Rot3K veterans might expect.
Death Stranding is an interesting look at what makes a game a game, and not much else.
Super Mario Maker 2 fulfills just about everything it set out to do, making it a must-play for Mario fans.
It's an absolute joy to play, and the team racing aspect is so cleverly implemented you just sink into it and be one with the team. There's no other racing title I can compare that aspect to.
Lapis X Labyrinth has a lot of flash that just gobbles away any substance it might have had.
If I have one complaint about Katana ZERO, it's that there's not already a sequel.
Outward isn't revolutionary, but there's a lot to be said for the sense of achievement the game grants in both single and multiplayer.