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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.
Nostalgia is a tricky thing in that it tends to be a liar more often than not.
Hitman 2 is the proper evolution to the Hitman formula.
Mutant Football League: Dynasty Edition is a respectable spiritual successor to a legendary game.
It's wonderful to see Taiko No Tatsujin finally return to the west and perhaps in the most spectacular way yet.
It's bold to dish out a product with so many obvious absentees of the most fundamental components to a video game, but The Quiet Man goes one step further in presenting itself as this artistically-flash, cinematically-deep experience it's all too proud of itself over without ever working for that accolade.
Cheap Golf is a far smarter game than its simplicity and retro style make it look.