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Chuchel is an amusing diversion from a developer attuned to their considerable aesthetic strengths.
Metal Gear Survive aligns itself with too many corporate gaming shenanigans to register as unadulterated fun.
After the series spent eight years bouncing around gaming platforms, it finally feels like it's found a true home on the Switch.
Fe is filled with rote tasks, and its hyper-stylized imagery impedes attempts at emotional connection.
A plethora of technical limitations transform this game's quest for verisimilitude into a kind of farce.
The game wears its influences so brazenly that the entire experience ends up feeling listless, predictable, and trite.
There's something to be said for that in the current landscape. Monster Hunter World is a game full of people all striving to achieve their common goals within a set of gameplay mechanics that doesn't so much actively discourage going at it alone as encourage collective work, where the learning is never truly finished.
The additional timeline never really questions the naïveté with which Radiant Historia preaches of self-sacrifice.
What separates Celeste from masochistic games like The End Is Nigh is that it's not bleak or unyielding.
A classic has been reincarnated as one of the most visually magnificent titles of our current generation.
This is a gleaming example of how to craft a fighting game that feels like it has its arms open for everyone to enjoy.
Iconoclasts is an ironic, humanistic critique of religion as much as it is a masterful take on a traditional game genre.
Developer Will O'Neill's bluntness fulfills Little Red Lie's philosophy of being honest no matter what.
Unless you're an extremely quick study, the game's weirdly unintuitive control scheme will very likely get in your way.
By keeping things so simple, the game is able to keep our focus entirely on the joy of discovery.
This highly anticipated sequel to Xenoblade Chronicles is one of the most overindulgent games of the year.
Even with a new coat of graphical paint, L.A. Noire remains a game that adds up to less than the sum of its parts.
Black Mirror often alludes to the Gothic classics that inspired it, to stories full of disturbing, evil forces that threaten to overtake their characters, but the only unsettling thing about it is a glut of technical issues.
The game sacrifices specificity of environment, story, and characterization so as to ensure that the car is king.
Battlefront II is actually a rather fitting sequel to its immediate predecessor, which was itself a fun, visually phenomenal but woefully shallow and convoluted experience. Everything that was right with the original game is exactly as it was before. Everything that wasn't, however, has mutated into something more craven and significantly uglier.