Issues aside, with a much stronger line-up of games, Taito Milestones 3 manages to be the best entry so far in the series.
Sky Oceans: Wings for Hire is a self-proclaimed love letter to Japanese RPGs of yesteryear, but issues with gameplay and lack of polish hold back an otherwise promising game.
Metal Slug Tactics’ clever ideas and gorgeous pixel art clash head-on with performance issues and a host of glitches on the Switch.
On top of an already fantastic game doc, Tetris Forever features one of the most fun versions of the game to date with Tetris Time Warp.
Until Dawn on PS5 and PC is more polished, but overall it’s the same experience as the 2017 original.
Join Shin and his lovely family and friends in a rural adventure you won’t soon forget in Shin Chan: Shiro and the Coal Town.
Ys X is a less ambitious game but still manages to convey what the series has been going for for decades, which will surely please newcomers and long time fans.
The Looney Tunes gang are back and ready to tackle a Wacky World of Sports in a forgettable combo of games better played elsewhere.
Digital Eclipse’s debut in the interactive videogame documentary genre gets even bigger, showing more of one of the most important companies in the business.
With incredibly accessible gameplay, colorful graphics, and lots of content to be played, Victory Heat Rally is a ton of fun.
One of the NES’ best action adventure side-scrollers, Shadow of the Ninja, is back and you shouldn’t miss it.
Dead Rising Deluxe Remaster is a successful rework of one of Capcom’s most off-the-wall games.
Games Workshop’s prolific videogame franchise strikes gold again with a terrific follow-up to one of its best entries to date with Space Marine 2.
While not necessarily the most out there game in terms of ideas or gameplay, what is here helps give Space Trucker plenty of legs, especially to someone like me who is naturally inclined to enjoy the mundane nature of hauling cargo, with the added hooks of having to do it in space. The setting is cool in its relative routine structure of playing a worker sometime in the future where it’s just another job like any other, which is exactly the type of sci-fi that most appeals to me. Whatever contract is out there, I’ll be sure to pop by and do my best, ten-4, breaker breaker.
Capcom and Marvel’s decades-long partnership is put on display in one of fighting games best compilations with Marvel vs Capcom Fighting Collection: Arcade Classics.
Astro Bot is one of the best platformers released in over a decade, oozing with content and fun scenarios that should appeal to just about every kind of player there is.
Then again, it’s nice to get the chance to play one of these games without having to resort to exploitative import prices or worse, ROMs and emulation. Given Sunsoft’s resolve to seeing this release through this time means that a whole new audience will get to do away with myths and legends about this series to find that these are fun and simple games very much worth checking out and adding to your digital gaming library wherever.
Ace Attorney Investigations Collection makes its case admirably by offering two of the most unique games in the series, including one that was previously unreleased outside of Japan.
Bringing some of the finest 2D games to date, the Castlevania Dominus Collection is a brilliant compilation that is helped even further with the surprise inclusion of a much needed rework of the game that started it all.
Star Wars Outlaws is a serviceable open-world game that makes great use of the license, but fails to provide much of a reason for non-believers to jump in.