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At its most crucial, Injustice 2 joyously depicts its heroes doing the right thing simply for its own sake.
The game thoughtfully uses the opposing philosophies of its lover protagonists, Alm and Celica, to color its warfare.
In our present-day world, its prediction of a violent worker-versus-worker future feels hauntingly plausible.
The game is dour and oblivious that its destination is more interesting and vital than the journey.
At its best, the game is a perfect marriage between the telling of a story and one's first-hand engagement with it.
Where it sets itself apart from actual ‘90s-era shooters is with its light sprinkling of procedurally generated elements.
Persona 5 is the moment Atlus allowed the Persona series to truly grow up and earn that “M for Mature” rating.
The game is beautiful to look at from a distance but disappointing up close and ultimately functionless.
CI Games's latest, Sniper: Ghost Warrior 3, puts the player's courage and tolerance to the test.
It benefits nobody to see heroes so emotionally minimized in their single-minded pursuit of a powerful artifact.
Red Barrels's game is an immature and hateful slight at anyone who dares to believe in a divine creator.
Lizardcube has both made The Dragon's Trap more vibrant and set a fascinating standard for game remakes.
Thimbleweed Park ends up feeling like a flashback to the good old days of LucasArts adventure games.
Bulletstorm is a wide, cackling grin of a game that doesn't so much beg to be played but indulged in.
The game isn’t interested in coasting on nostalgia, but in establishing brand-new memories for the next generation.
Instead of boldly striking out into the unknown, Mass Effect: Andromeda merely imposes its most predictable habits onto it.
Throughout, Troll and I often raises the question of just how much testing was done to spot and correct mistakes.
NieR Automata is the first game to truly stand up and greet ludonarrative dissonance as a friend.
Its superior kineticism shows that Shovel Knight was an amateur's first stab toward something a little greater.
From a standpoint of action, Breath of the Wild goes out of its way to step beyond every Legend of Zelda title before it.