TheGamer's Reviews
Denshattack is one of the fiercest, fastest, and most lovable games I’ve played in quite some time.
Cozy Grove: Camp Spirit is a must-play for fans of the original. It offers a familiar yet refined gameplay loop and once again combines a casual pace with subtle storytelling that has far more depth than you might expect from a game this cute.
If you enjoyed the original adventure, chances are you will love Assassin’s Creed Black Flag Resynced. It keeps everything that made that game so special and adds more than enough new content to make revisiting it worthwhile.
Having played every single title in the series and mastered some of its hardest challenges, Groove feels like the perfect entry point for newcomers who want to see what the fuss is all about.
But having played and fallen in love with it, I’m confident in saying this is exactly what Star Fox needed and the definitive way to experience an all-time classic.
If this is the level of what we get in an expansion, I can’t wait to see what Bancho the Chef is like, and I’ll still keep waiting for the real Dave the Diver 2.
It’s an easy game to dive into for a spell here or there or sink hours in, and it’s one I’ll be recommending to anyone who has ever enjoyed a certain mute hero. However, I’ll do so with the recommendation that the volume be turned down once you meet a certain should-be-mute fairy.
Quest for the Gold Pen does that while also giving them stuff to find and puzzles to solve whenever they feel like following the path laid out for them.
Mina the Hollower is an almost faultless game that combines elements of nostalgic classics we know and love with a healthy dose of Yacht Club’s flair and expertise to make it something that truly stands out as a retro-inspired masterpiece.
It feels like a collection of old, unpolished games that will specifically appeal to 30-somethings who haven’t thought about Rugrats for 20 years because that’s exactly what it’s supposed to be.
Bubsy 4D may be short, but it’s also one of the tightest controlling and most satisfying platformers out there.
Yoshi and the Mysterious Book is a good game. But that’s all it is.
All in all, Zero Parades has that ever-elusive quality of convincing you to keep playing: to find out what happens next, to unravel the narrative, to keep experiencing Portofiro.
Legacy of The Dark Knight has set a new plastic mold for TT Games, and is easily the studio’s best work since the golden age of Batman, Indiana Jones, Star Wars, and Marvel Super Heroes.
Coffee Talk Tokyo is a handsomely endearing experience about listening to people and being there for them.
It would be easy to say that Forza Horizon 6 is simply the best version of itself so far, and leave it at that, but that undersells what it truly achieves. It is an accumulation of its past five iterations, but somehow remains light on its feet.
InKonbini: One Store. Many Stories offers a short but very sweet slice-of-life game that makes you value the quiet moments and fleeting conversations you have with strangers. Much like our favourite convenience store snacks, it offers plenty of flavour in a bite-sized chunk that keeps our appetite satiated until the next eye-catching game comes along.
Although there are lots of ways to upgrade and decorate your van - which, I suppose, is just about the only saving grace of this game - I had absolutely zero interest in doing so.
Directive 8020 offers a few changes to the series template, and all for the very respectable reason of wanting to evolve and iterate the core gameplay fans know and love. Turning Points is a fantastic new addition, but the new stealth sections quickly became repetitive. Still, you can see the promising seed of what that idea could grow into in future games.
Despite the limited gameplay and slightly repetitive nature of wandering around rooms to click on objects, Mixtape is an experience I’ll remember for a long while. The sharp dialogue that feels real and stays the right side of grating, easy-going storytelling, excellent soundtrack, and supreme confidence to play around with the medium make Mixtape well worth tuning into, even if some will be put off by a perceived lack of things to do. I still haven’t really figured out if Mixtape is a video game, but I do know that I thoroughly recommend you give it a spin.