Slant Magazine
HomepageThe game is fairly dedicated to correcting many of the worst creative decisions made across the lifespan of the Assassin's Creed series.
The Pathless ultimately buries anything it might have to say in a stupefying level of cliché.
Tetris Effect is one of the best VR titles on the market, so without the feature Connected feels, well, disconnected.
In the end, Melody of Memory is very much a fans-only affair.
The game noticeably stumbles as it attempts to more overtly address the darkness beneath its concept.
Carto gets a lot of brain-bending mileage from its central mechanic.
The gameplay blunts the effectiveness of the game's aesthetic, because there's no real danger to exploring the environments here.
It's difficult to escape a sense that the game's ambition far outstrips the number of unique people it can plausibly render.
In theory, its intricacies should be bracing, but in practice the fixation on spacing and formation further slows down the pace.
Star Wars Squadrons proves that Jedi: Fallen Order was no fluke. Video games have never been more empowered to immerse players in all the coolest parts of the Star Wars universe, and EA is no longer tripping on its own feet making it happen. We used to daydream of being so fully engrossed in a spectacular Star Wars dogfight. Now, after just an hour of Star Wars Squadrons, with the right group, the daydream is when we can get our friends back in the air.