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Sakura Sakura is the kind of game to play when you're not in the mood for anything serious.
After five years of waiting, though there are some frequently fantastic examples of sound used to further the tone and aesthetic, a similarly plentiful amount of contradictory design choices and unnecessarily tasking moments leaves BELOW with many rough edges.
Minotaur Arcade Volume 1 is a great little bundle of two games that deserved better than to be lost to an obsolete mobile phone OS. While Gridrunner is clearly the star of the show, Goat Up is a fun little oddball that also has the distinction of being Llamasoft's first platformer.
You need to come up with a strategy on the fly and then stick with it, carrying it off to perfection to earn a decent score. That’s Scintillatron 4096’s biggest strength and harshest weakness, because there’s no recovering a level from a single mistake.
Katamari Damacy Reroll is just as fun today as it was fourteen years ago.
Dusk is easily one of the best pure-action FPSes to come along in years, mixing gunplay and exploration in equal measure.
Despite mechanics issues, Mutant Year Zero: Road to Eden offers a good variety in gameplay styles, character customization and solid worldbuilding.
GRIS is, simply put, one of this year's masterpieces.
Though its pixellated visuals and bright environments do provide brief pleasantries in the first hour or so, the little variety in its missions and very reason to stay invested other than grinding until the climax results in a game caught between two minds, committing, sadly, to neither one in the process.
It's not an exaggeration to say that Super Smash Bros. Ultimate is the biggest accomplishment in the series thus far.
Just Cause 4 is a tale of two games.
Gear Club Unlimited 2 is an underwhelming follow-up to the first game.
I'll admit that I went into Earth Defense Force 5 a little concerned about series fatigue.
Despite its issues I kept on plugging away at Crimson Keep, not just to review it, but because it feels like if I can just figure out how to work around its shortcomings there's a great dungeon crawl waiting to be found.
Fallout 76 strives to be both a single player experience and online multiplayer game, and due to the concessions it makes to achieve this, ends up falling short in both objectives.
For an odd spin-off to an RPG series, Persona 5: Dancing in Starlight is very well executed.
Persona 3: Dancing in Moonlight makes for a decent rhythm game overall, despite a relatively small song list and the lack of a story.
While it may not be the newest interpretation of Pokémon for longtime fans, Let's Go offers a unique and welcome experience as the first console title for the main series.
Battlefield V is one of the best current multiplayer shooters on the market.
Not since the days of the original PlayStation or Game Boy has Tetris proven with such ferocity that it remains as enjoyable yet aesthetically-dexterous as it's proven so many a time.