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HomepageAs with the rest of the game, outside of the more focussed platform sequences, I was boosted through by the breezy mood more than anything else. Skelattack is a masterpiece in the art of the pleasant.
The chief pleasures on offer are those of the power fantasy and of the newly burgeoning subgenre that we might call the zoological misadventure.
It rarely swells beyond the sum of its parts; with parts as precision-tooled as this, it doesn't need to.
John Wick Hex could have been a number of different games, none of them as strange and satisfying as this.
When the credits rolled, I felt better, gunning for action, as if life were a thing to rage through with a smile on your face. How often does that happen?
Does it succeed? Well, I don't know—I'm not an astronaut—but I can report that it has a pleasing gravity.
Pack up your troubles in your old kit bag, but don't drop them in the sea, and mind out for the runaway chickens, and remember to lift with your noodley arms rather than your legs.
As a result of magnifying such a comparably miniscule portion of play, the pacing in the remake lumbers. Still, the prospect of leaving planet Earth for a few hours comes at a premium in our present moment.
Resident Evil 3 is a play for our imagination as much as our memory. It understands that the fear we felt long ago didn't fade; it took root in our brains and mutated into myth. And this is what it might look like.
With Nioh 2, Team Ninja has done a better job than anyone else at making smart innovations to a treasured design template.