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Throughout, you may be gripped by the feeling that you've seen all that there is to see in the fighting game genre.
The Occupation's fierce commitment to immersing the player in its credible world is also the game's undoing.
The game's bland mélange of competence feels like the deliberate, calculated, focus-tested murder of ideas.
The game not only gets you to behave like a rampaging gorilla, it forces you to adapt like one.
There's a certain sneering satisfaction to defeating everything the game throws at you on a particular track.
As you watch Talma's existence fade, you grasp the importance that every moment can have on a mortal plane.
By the time New Dawn reaches its rushed third act, it's broken down entirely.
At the very least, the game's epic trials will make you respect the practitioners of this most insane of sports.
The game ultimately seems less interested in the process of how humanity breaks down than its grisly end results.
The little that's good here isn't enough for one to shake off the faulty nature of the game's narrative and thematic machinery.
The game assures that the malicious ideas that guided Resident Evil 7 may become the governing principles of the series moving forward.
The world the game shares with its predecessors is detailed and bizarre in equal measure.
The art of a game, however distinctive, matters little if it isn't accompanied by functionality.
There are few greater thrills than discovering a new, powerful combo in Slay the Spire.
The game comes across like a love letter to everything that Super Mario Odyssey left behind.
At its best, the game leaves you by your lonesome to get to know the “deep blue” sky as intimately as possible.
The effectiveness of the game's humor doesn't always tie back to the concept of Bowser as a frustrated, impotent vessel.
Above all else, said developer needs a near-bottomless imagination to make it so that pitting the greatest video game characters ever created against each other is as exhilarating to behold the umpteenth time out as it was way back in 1999
It doesn’t matter how cool an individual set piece looks if all the smaller scenes leading up to it are marred by unresponsive vehicles, dumb AI, and shoddy physics.
Mutant Year Zero feels most of all like a promising start for something potentially greater. Indeed, for as much as the game offers an intense, occasionally brilliant spin on turn-based strategy, it’s tough not to imagine how a sequel could improve the writing and the exploration to realize what is, at this point anyway, mostly just a lot of potential.