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Duskfade's wonder and whimsy will enchant you at the first half of its storybook experience, while its second half will pull the rug from under your feet and test your patience, and not in a good way.
With a plethora of features, immaculate art style & sounds, huge love & respect of the source material from Arc System Works, and a solid fighting game engine that caters to both beginners and expert, Marvel Tokon: Fighting Souls is a triumph. Even the most jaded and stubborn of tag fighters will admit that there's a lot of "sauce" and depth in the devs' take on Marvel superheroes.
While light on features, Avatar Legends: The Fighting Game is a solid 2D fighting title with fun & unique combat mechanics, clear love for the characters and source material, and has solid replayability on the online and competitive side of things.
[Y]ou could do worse than spend RM49 on this PS1-looking one-trick pony just for an empty weekend.
Lunarium is a beautiful & gorgeous indie-level action role-playing game with a lovely amount of challenge and a few unfinished text bits and user interface options to sort out.
The Mermaid Mask is a well-written adventure title with a quirky and fun cast of characters and weirdos, great pacing, brain-taxing logic puzzles that fit with the world it's in, and a juicy mystery with good amounts of deducing and second-guessing on the player's side.
I'm personally glad I get to experience an arcade action title like Denshattack!; it brings hope that there are truly good ideas in the indie gaming space if you put your mind to it while getting inspired by your favourite classic arcade-slash-retro-console romps. Developer Undercoders took their love of the Jet Set Radio and Tony Hawk Pro Skater series, as well as Japan, and put it in a game that amps it up a notch while also being unique with its fast-moving train and literal on-rails theme. It's fast, frenetic, fun, and replayable as all hell.
Assassin's Creed: Black Flag Resynced just feels like there should be more to it, and it frustrates us that it missed the mark, making us doubt the original release, which we thoroughly enjoyed. What was awesome then is now, at best, mid.
Granblue Fantasy Relink players and sweaty action RPGers who want to continue getting more buff than jacked-up meme Vyrn will find a lot to love in Endless Ragnarok's plethora of endgame offerings. That said, people starting on the base game may want to wait until they're powerful enough to tackle all the Endless Ragnarok challenges. It's a lot to ask, but veterans and players who have waited for a worthy follow-up will be immensely satiated.
The Adventures of Elliot: The Millennium Tales is good comfort food top-down adventuring, bolstered by its stellar presentation and simple-to-play-yet-challenging-to -master gameplay. While the story does go through some predictable routes at the start, and one of its characters earning the dubious award for "most chatty companion" even with that dialed down in the in-game options, this HD-2D jaunt has layers worth uncovering and may just surprise you.
While LEGO Batman: Legacy of the Dark Knight is what you expect from a LEGO action adventure game, kudos to TT Games for implementing Batman: Arkham quadrology mechanics in its retelling of the Batman mythos (albeit in all-ages family friendly form).
Mina The Hollower is a triumph in game design, fun factor, storytelling, and vision, resulting from years of blood, sweat, tears, and heart from Yacht Club Games.
Coffee Talk Tokyo is a familiar yet comforting kind of story-laced text-heavy adventure title, much like your favourite non-branded cuppa joe. Its passive gameplay may not be anybody's cup of tea, but if you just came out of an action title that's breaking your metaphorical balls, Coffee Talk Tokyo might be that remedy for your throat and thirst for wholesome titles.
Bubsy 4D has some charm and seminal fun in its platforming, as well as spot-on controls and feel. However, the stages aren't that memorable, and it's over so quick unless you're doing Nine Lives/Tank mode and practicing for future speedrunning, and is very bare longevity-wise. Even for indie gaming standards, there's a good number of cracks that make this sequel feel more like a cash-in rather than a genuine send-off, as lovely-sounding as its soundtrack is.
In spite of its simplistic combat and not-quite-unique characters (especially in a world with ZZZ animated caricatures), NTE is still a blast to play due to its standout feature: city life sim bits, driving, and open-world shenanigans not unlike your Rockstar Games and Volition fare. But, you know anime and cat girls.
Simply put, Forza Horizon 6 does what a open-world racing game sequel is supposed to do and then some: amplify its core gameplay hook while just delivering new areas and driving maps, offering a fresh perspective amidst the familiar open-world racing established by the series.
While it doesn't reinvent the formula, Clockwork Ambrosia nonetheless makes it all the more entertaining with its tough bosses, gun mods, great traversal power-ups dished out for the intrepid explorers, and exhilarating shooting controls and feel. As someone who adores both search action titles and run-and-guns like Contra and Gunstar Heroes, this one's a match made in heaven.
Replayable as heck thanks to its multiple endings alongside an extra playable character, you'll have a ball with the spear-stabbing action and downward thrusting going on in this clear ode to NES Castlevania 1 to 3, complete with a rockin' Ricoh 2A03-esque synth soundtrack.
For those who hold some love for sci-fi strategy games with long-lasting roguelite mechanics with a dollop of intrigue and space politics, Battlestar Galactica: Scattered Hopes is clearly for you.
Diablo IV: Lord of Hatred is the sort of expansion that does the Blizzard and Diablo name proud. With its overloaded features and upgrades, its story closure and addition of fun bosses that you can fight in harder settings & parameters in the endgame, and two new classes that both feel fun, powerful, and invigorating albeit in two different flavours, this Lord of Hatred deserves its crown.