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Developer Will O'Neill's bluntness fulfills Little Red Lie's philosophy of being honest no matter what.
Everything that made Horizon Zero Dawn the outstanding work that it is undeniably carries over to The Frozen Wilds.
This is a gleaming example of how to craft a fighting game that feels like it has its arms open for everyone to enjoy.
What separates Celeste from masochistic games like The End Is Nigh is that it's not bleak or unyielding.
Following the lead of Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons, the game builds toward an incredibly sobering conclusion.
God of War doesn't so much suggest its ready-to-rumble predecessors as it does a more forgiving Dark Souls.
After the series spent eight years bouncing around gaming platforms, it finally feels like it's found a true home on the Switch.
More than just a faithful recreation of an old subgenre, its greatest strength lies in its impeccable writing.
The various forms of Street Fighter II are indisputably the main historical attraction of this collection.
Even if the lavish detail, excellent writing, and world of possibility within vivid levels mostly just refine what came before, that’s because IO Interactive have all but perfected what they set out to achieve in Hitman: Codename 47 nearly 20 years ago
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
Motion Twin's Dead Cells is a game designed for those who don't particularly like roguelikes.
The game is a near-endless buffet of innovative options for turning enemies into mincemeat.
The game should feel wrong or disjointed with the conflicting elements it includes, but it all creates a strange, poignant, and often beautiful whole.
The game assures that the malicious ideas that guided Resident Evil 7 may become the governing principles of the series moving forward.
The effectiveness of the game's humor doesn't always tie back to the concept of Bowser as a frustrated, impotent vessel.
At the very least, the game's epic trials will make you respect the practitioners of this most insane of sports.
There are few greater thrills than discovering a new, powerful combo in Slay the Spire.
The world the game shares with its predecessors is detailed and bizarre in equal measure.
As you watch Talma's existence fade, you grasp the importance that every moment can have on a mortal plane.