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Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 delivers exciting innovations and an engaging career mode for aviation fans, but issues like weak localization, clunky AI voice acting, and lengthy loading times make it worth considering a wait for future updates.

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Critter Café is charming and smooth with simple controls, but its potential is squandered by repetitive gameplay, limited activities, and simplistic dialogue, leaving the Critters—meant to be the stars—underutilized in a shallow experience.

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S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl is an immersive and atmospheric journey through the Zone, delivering gripping exploration and hardcore survival, though its ambition is hindered by technical issues, making it a flawed yet quintessential S.T.A.L.K.E.R. experience.

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Loco Motive delivers a delightful blend of humor, mystery, and classic point-and-click adventure in a charming 1930s train setting, with strong dialogue, vibrant characters, and playful puzzles, though occasional illogical challenges and technical bugs may derail the experience for some.

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Farming Simulator 25 introduces interesting improvements like new crops, animals, production lines, and an Asian map, but while the AI is improved and contracts are varied, it still feels quite similar to Farming Simulator 22, with some persistent issues such as clunky menus, a lack of world liveliness, and minor performance problems on consoles.

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Sorry We’re Closed is a unique horror shooter that blends arcade action with tactical gameplay, puzzles, and secrets, offering satisfying combat and multiple endings for replayability, though player choices only impact the final outcome rather than the overall story.

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Guerrilla and Studio Gobo’s LEGO Horizon Adventures delivers an unexpectedly fantastic combination, blending the world, machines, and gameplay of Horizon Zero Dawn into LEGO with impressive style; the environments look fun and the gameplay is engaging, with a lighthearted story full of puns and dry humor that keeps grinding to a minimum, making achievements enjoyable to pursue—though short and priced at seventy euros, the game’s high level of detail makes it worth the cost, even if the final Expeditions could have offered a bit more.

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Dragon Quest III HD-2D Remake is an enjoyable JRPG with an engaging story, beautiful world, hidden treasures, deep dungeons, and challenging battles, enhanced by quality-of-life upgrades that make it more accessible; it's a nostalgic treat for fans and a worthy entry for newcomers, showing why the series is beloved—and with Dragon Quest I & II HD-2D Remake completing the trilogy next year, I’ll definitely be back for more.

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Mario & Luigi: Brothership is the comeback the franchise deserves, with stunning visuals, a fantastic soundtrack, and smooth gameplay, making it a must-play for both newcomers and returning fans, despite minor annoyances like limited monster variety and repetitive battles between bosses.

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After a long wait for a VR game to rival Half-Life: Alyx, Metro Awakening by VR powerhouse Vertigo Games initially seemed like a worthy contender, but after eight hours in Moscow’s post-apocalyptic metro tunnels, it’s clear that on the Quest 3, inconsistent graphics, problematic controls, lack of variety, and technical issues hold it back from reaching Alyx's heights, leaving only nostalgia to carry hardcore Metro fans through an experience that struggles to stay compelling over time.

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Planet Coaster 2 introduces welcome features like pools, water rides, and improved tools, but falls short in key areas, with interface issues, lackluster management mechanics, limited content, and performance problems that make the game feel incomplete; while there are charming moments for diehard fans, as a full-priced theme park simulation, it ultimately disappoints and feels more like an unfinished Early Access title.

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As a Dragon Age fan, you're better off avoiding Dragon Age: The Veilguard—the once-dark fantasy world has been transformed into a Disney-like fairytale with childish, shallow dialogue, limited and inconsequential choices that restrict you to being nice, and a linear storyline that disregards the deep lore, impactful choices, and character-driven narratives the series is known for. Enemy design is laughable, side missions are shallow, puzzles are overly simple, and while the flashy combat is fun, it feels out of place, lacking strategic depth, making it painful to accept that this beloved franchise may meet its end in 2024.

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With Chicken Police: Into the HIVE!, The Wild Gentlemen once again masterfully deliver a film-noir detective experience with intriguing animal-headed characters, and while the game is relatively short at five to six hours with limited interrogation opportunities, it’s a must-play—even if you don’t usually go for visual novels—thanks to its fantastic music and superb voice acting that draw you into the story, making it hard to stop until the credits roll.

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The remastered Goat Simulator is just as entertaining as the original, and with the years that have passed, it even brought a touch of nostalgia for me; I laughed a lot at the absurdity and the creativity the developers put into it, though I still wonder if it will hold my interest longer this time around, since eventually I had seen enough.

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Metal Slug Tactics takes a surprising turn that works well, blending the iconic characters, over-the-top visuals, and nostalgic sounds with new elements like a roguelite structure, skill trees, and a sync system that make it feel fresh, challenging, and replayable—but while it’s enjoyable for tactical RPG fans and Metal Slug enthusiasts alike, the content on display isn't quite expansive enough.

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Slitterhead offers a quirky, exotic horror-action experience with flaws in dialogue and gameplay, but those who embrace its oddities will find a bizarre, twist-filled story, intense monster combat, and a true cult-classic feel from Bokeh Game Studio.

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Vendetta Forever by Meatspace Interactive challenges you to be a one-man army across sixty intense levels packed with enemies, where only the toughest players make it through—cheats or no cheats.

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Bloober Team’s Silent Hill 2 remake (2024) stays deeply faithful to the original, while adding meaningful expansions at key moments. The narrative is still a tearjerker that grips you tightly, often making you question what you see, and the audiovisual quality is phenomenal. It is still our special place.

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Life is Strange: Double Exposure continues the success of the original with enhancements, featuring Max as a compelling lead investigating her friend’s murder; her evolved powers add depth as she navigates saving Safi in one timeline and preventing future murders in another, making for a captivating experience despite minor pacing and variation issues.

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Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 is the best entry in years, with the innovative Omnimovement mechanic refreshing gameplay across all modes without losing the charm of previous games, featuring a sublime single-player experience, engaging open-world segments, a compelling story, a Zombies mode that returns to its roots, and varied multiplayer maps—though with some hits and misses—making it a must-have for fans and an inviting return for casual players.

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