Birth. Movies. Death.

While it’s still one of the more outright comedies in the Telltale oeuvre, Guardians’ story is one of grief and loss and regret.

When a dude in power armour stabs you dead for the sixth time, it doesn't invoke feelings of despair - or any feelings at all.

Bloody Days’ constant references won’t make sense to anyone who hasn’t seen Reservoir Dogs, and fans of the film will loathe it with a seething intensity.

I assume the upcoming games (such as the just announced Marvel Heroes 2) will return to status quo, but hopefully this remaster proves successful enough to warrant either a sequel, or TT borrowing another series' template and applying their silly brand of humor to it. A Lego FPS, perhaps?

After that, it’s just a gunfight.

What Remains of Edith Finch isn’t some Batmanny trudge through a peat-bog of dead kids and deader parents. It’s about learning and letting go respectfully, finding love and tranquility and even joy in death.

Mario Kart 8 Deluxe feels like a victory lap, the delightful culmination of decades of refinement.

The enemies feel like monsters sculpted out of plasticine from some studio-disowned animated Roald Dahl adaptation.

I'm not sure Mass Effect: Andromeda is a bad game, but it is a colossally average game, drowning in its own feature list and quest journal.

Likely to appeal to the game’s twin demographics of children and, er, inner children.

Hope your inventory contains blood pressure medication.

Maybe I’ll never finish it, just so it’ll still be there for me.

I can foresee a dedicated core of combat nerds jamming the shit out of For Honor, but it’s definitely not for everyone.

Horizon: Zero Dawn is not just a great game - it's straight-up great science fiction.

One of the few open-world action games where I’d rather just zip around collecting crystals.

Like a three-legged dog or a cycloptic cat, it’s almost endearing in its jankiness.

The fantasies I want to fulfil aren’t found in the trenches.

The forgotten stepchild of Shooter Season 2016.

The game treats Lara like shit, threatening to freeze, drown, impale, burn, eat, or otherwise murder her at every turn.

Mafia III’s compelling narrative inevitably comes crashing down the moment it starts being an open-world action game.