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Overall, Tales of Graces f Remastered is a great remastered port that brings a classic title to modern consoles while featuring necessary enhancements that make it worth returning to.
It would have been nice to see some new content added, but as a remaster it was not expected. Overall, Donkey Kong Country Returns HD is still a fantastic addition to the Nintendo Switch lineup and is a truly enjoyable experience.
Dynasty Warriors like you've never seen before.
Attack On Titan VR: Unbreakable could've been bigger.
A clever containment of order and chaos.
Marvel Rivals is good but doesn't redefine the genre.
A truly great blend, though, can appeal to more than just its target audience. If I can sit here after finishing the game and keep smiling when I think about Voss's eccentricities or the dumbstruck look on the faces of fascists taken by surprise, I'm pretty certain that most people can smile while playing it. The Indiana Jones franchise is blockbuster action tuned to its most gleefully magnificent possibilities, and Indiana Jones and the Great Circle chases that goal like there's a rolling boulder behind it. With that energy, any minor faults are easy to forgive.
While Metro Awakening's world-building and the depth of its characters will inspire players to want to check out the franchise's other installments, the game delivers another engaging VR adventure that takes advantage of immersive technology. It doesn't push the boundaries of the medium to the extent that the revolutionary Half-Life: Alyx or the criminal-invested Batman: Arkham Shadow, but Metro Awakening helps push the storytelling potential that immersive VR gaming can provide.
Batman: Arkham Shadow is VR gaming at its best.
Ambitious and engrossing open-world immersive sim.
One of the best RPGs ever...again!
While Death Note: Killer Within is a creative use of the property, the game doesn't use enough elements of the rich source material and has a good chance of leaving fans wanting more.
Goat Simulator: Remastered needs time in the stable.
While its roguelike elements could be a little more exciting, the minute-to-minute gameplay of a run is so fun that I found it easy to overlook this flaw as I leaped back into action to drop more bombs with a well-placed Synchronization. Overall, Metal Slug Tactics is well worth playing.
All in all, TMNT: Splintered Fate stands as one of the better games seen in the franchise, delivering a busy and accessible action roguelite supported by a tone-perfect narrative. All we need now is for Super Evil Megacorp to make good on that roadmap and beef up the content, but any Turtles fans and roguelite aficionados should find enough here already to spur their next grind session.
When it's good, it's really good, but it's hard to recommend wholeheatedly with all that confusion and tedium. Hardcore Siren fans who have been longing for another entry in the defunct franchise will certainly like it. Players with open minds and a lot of patience should certainly check it out. Slitterhead has a lot of great ideas: I just wish it was better at doling them out consistently.
Even with these negatives, however, this is a game that I truly loved playing. The story, fun abilities and skills, the citizens of Concordia, and more all came together to make this a really fun experience. Mario and Luigi are both perfectly portrayed, with Luigi having more of a chance to be a hero than he often gets, and Princess Peach is as much a symbol of charm and heroism as ever. I truly hope that Mario & Luigi: Brothership will serve to usher in many more games in this series in the future.
While the story is forgettable and the gameplay can get repetitive, A Quiet Place: The Road Ahead is a surprisingly nice treat for fans of the franchise. It doesn't reinvent the wheel for horror games when it comes to the hide-and-seek genre, but it does have some nice mechanics.
However, as a whole, Life & Death feels like it has more love and attention to detail than any DLC in recent memory. For those who are fans of occult gameplay, the breadth of afterlife features is spectacular, and even for those who aren’t huge fans of occult DLC, the additions regarding things like funerals and inheritances are very versatile. Arguably one of the very best Expansion Packs the current iteration of the franchise has ever seen, The Sims 4 Life & Death is so good it’s scary.
Although it may only take around twenty hours for a long-time Sonic player to collect and experience everything Sonic X Shadow Generations has to offer, its level designs, gameplay mechanics, and incredible music reach a fantastic balance that makes replaying several stages over and over again a joy. Sonic X Shadow Generations is the best way to play one of the series' most enjoyable games that celebrates its past, and with the new Shadow content being a cut above the rest, it's a hopeful tease of where the franchise will go in the future.