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The ways that Axiom Verge resembles Metroid help set up and drive home the ways that Axiom Verge is most definitely not Metroid.
This perfectly competent open-world game gets a heck of a lot more interesting when it throws an endless host of savage, dynamic AI enemies into the mix.
Everything you loved about Rayman Origins is polished to a glistening sheen in this tremendously fun platformer.
The Stick of Truth is one of the rare instances of a licensed game done exactly right.
Jazzpunk is beautiful, beguiling nonsense.
Nintendo has knocked it out of the park once again, making its latest platformer a must play.
Platinum Games' sequel delivers nuanced, non-stop action that stands among the best in its genre.
Super Mario Maker lets you create as many Kuribo's Shoe-focused levels as your heart can take and then some. The pipes work and you can make giant goombas and stack them up as high as the screen. You can press play and get served up an endless array of user-created levels of varying degrees of quality. If any of that sounds even slightly appealing, you'll probably love this thing to death.
Naughty Dog does more than go back to the well with Nathan Drake's greatest adventure yet.
Link's most ambitious adventure is one of Nintendo's crowning achievements.
The intricate puzzles and tantalizing secrets of this starkly gorgeous, mystical island are enough to lose yourself in for dozens of hours.
It's hard to imagine a better Doom game in 2016 than this exhilarating, darkly witty new take on id's classic.
Come for the beautiful art, stay because you smashed all your controllers.
Metal Gear Solid V practically redefines the notion of what open-world gameplay can be.
Undertale combines charming characters, smart writing, and a unique combat system to make one of this fall's biggest surprises.
Far more than just a farming game, this one-man labor of love is filled with seemingly endless content and heart.
Titanfall 2 goes for feel above all else, and it feels fantastic.
Playdead's followup to Limbo expands on and improves all of that game's ideas so thoroughly, there's no question why it took six years to get here.
All in all, it's a great game, it's Guerrilla's strongest release to date, and I suspect I'll go back in after the fact to clean up whatever side quests and errands I have remaining, if only to spend a little more time in that world.
Red Dead Redemption 2 offers up an astoundingly engrossing world that's remarkably easy to get lost in.