AusGamers's Reviews
Lessons were learnt and learnt well. The looming Darkness has not consumed Bungie at this point in time. Quite the contrary. Destiny 2 is the glorious self-rez fans have been praying for. Stop orbiting it and dive in, today.
With equally impressive and inventive strategy too.
In the end Songbringer is an exciting, if familiar, take on the old Zelda formula that for the most part plays as good as it looks.
If The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild wasn't enough to push your switch to Nintendo Switch, Mario + Rabbids: Kingdom Battle definitely should force your wallet. Gaming like this is as rare as hens Rabbid teeth.
Which fails to reach the same heights of the original, and feels a little forced.
And a frustration-free Yakuza Kiwami experience means more time spent at one of the many hostess bars.
While I'm in the former camp, I also realise I'm likely outnumbered by those in the latter.
My life for Aiur!.
Where they're globe-trotting government agents, and prone to enter fits of gravity defying rage.
In its very first episode.
Tacoma shines where it counts, and that is with the story it tells and the feeling that each character within it feels real.
Sundered, from Thunder Lotus Games, a Rogue Legacy meets Super Metroid experience that is well worth checking out.
Any hey, any game that you can, mid-combo, rip the arm off a mutant and then proceed to beat it with severity (and a severed appendage) is worth checking out.
Splatoon 2 joins an already stellar first-party line-up for a console that is still only a few months old.
Stick with the 1991 original.
Which in the end gets a lot of things right, in addition to feeling like a traditional open-world Elder Scrolls RPG expansion. In that sense, The Elder Scrolls Online: Morrowind is a definite success, it faithfully recreates and updates the iconic location for both modern audiences and modern gaming hardware. Seriously, simply walking around and taking in all the sights is worth the price of admission alone.
By design the game portion comes first, providing an evocative experience where discovery feels earned and the pacing is spot on. The meaning comes later, at the very end in fact, but in a way that enhances everything that has comes before it. And in the process, leaves both a lasting impression and a cathartic sense of closure once you solve the biggest puzzle in the game -- its meaning.
But The Surge feels like a success, and one that we'll probably end up dying several hundred more times in.
As it stands it's still a few meaningful patches from becoming something that we'd recommend.
I loved every minute of it. I woke up early to play it and went to bed late because I didn't want to stop. Play it now so we can talk about it.