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City of Beats uses musical elements to create a different shooting and action adventure. Dodging and shooting to the rhythm of the soundtrack makes battles immersive, and the high challenge and frantic tempo make the experience electrifying. Other than that, the world oozes style with its electronic music and neon colors. However, the small variety of situations and timid use of rhythmic mechanics prevent the game from standing out. All in all, City of Beats is a passable but unmemorable roguelike.

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Without any narrative outline or other way to connect the experience and with fewer tools at your disposal than expected, Super Dungeon Maker, unfortunately, ends up disappointing more than entertaining. The most extreme enthusiasts of his proposal will certainly find fun creating their own structures and playing other people's dungeons, but until new updates add more content to the game, all other players will be better served with the legends that have been around for a long time in other works.

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Teslagrad Remastered shows how the title turned into a modern indie classic with a well-structured level design, great visuals and creative gameplay, all its aspects make the player really absorb the game experience. However, any remaster with significant value nowadays need to offer more to the fans than only small upgrades and a few additional stages. For a newcomer, I recommend it easily, but if you've already played the 2013 version, don't get too excited.

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Star Wars Jedi: Survivor is, without a doubt, the best Star Wars experience to date. Exquisite in everything it proposes, the title confirms Respawn Entertainment's competence in creating an addictive action game that manages to evolve all aspects of the experience we had in 2019 with Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order. All that remains is to give more seriousness to the issue of optimization to make the overall experience really perfect.

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Magical Drop VI uses its fast pacing and dynamism to offer a pleasant puzzle. Collecting and throwing spheres is intuitive and the combos and frantic rhythm make the matches exciting. Beyond its colorful and charismatic atmosphere, the game has various modes and online matches, which may entertain for a long time. Even so, it lacked polishment in some areas, such as the difficulty balancing and the online matches' resources. All in all, lovers of fast, competitive puzzles will appreciate Magical Drop VI.

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Even with some difficulty to maintain its predecessor's magnetism, Teslagrad 2 is a good game. There's nothing to complain about the soundtrack and visual style, which continue wonderful, but it was easy to notice the development was a little more trouble in regards to map exploration and gameplay.

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Though we're still in May, I can already say Strayed Lights is one of the great surprises of 2023. The beautiful and enchanting visuals contrast perfectly to the intense, addicting combat, turning the exploration and action experience memorable. It ends up lacking in a few areas but it's more about wanting more of it. Maybe a future update, expansion and/or continuation could take this good concept to the level it deserves.

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Arto even has good qualities, but it will hardly be a hack and slash that will stand out in the market. The mixture of artistic styles and the good use of colors calls attention for its quality and diversity, as well as its combat, which, even though it is simple, offers a good variety of movements. Its problems, however, weigh significantly, since they directly interfere with combat and exploration, things that you will do practically at all times.

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Mr. Sun’s Hatbox takes advantage of good humor to give life to a structure that tends to be repetitive. The wide variety of items and particularities, in addition to making each game unique, amuse and create unusual situations that make it an excellent title. Despite the minor issues, it's a game worth keeping an eye on.

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The Aurogon Shanghai studio definitely created Afterimage as a work made of a lot of effort and beauty. The intention to produce such a vast and dense metroidvania doesn't always contribute to the game as a whole but it delivers a ton of content to explore, admire and face. Curious players will be rewarded with many discoveries in impressive sceneries, but those who are bothered by backtracking and a lack of direction may be frustrated by the big distances between the spots of Engardin.

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Despite its simplicity in many ways and its sounding a little confusing or overly wacky, Moon: Remix RPG Adventure is perhaps one of the most unique and interesting games ever made with gameplay and storytelling that have not only aged well but continue to exhibit a very current and relevant critical design.

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Despite its specific issues, it's possible to consider GrimGrimoire OnceMore a very capable representative of its genre, but, even so, it's hardly inviting for the general public. Even so, this is a respectable entry in Vanillaware's catalogue.

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Whether you're an inveterate Final Fantasy fan, a curious newcomer to the world of Japanese RPGs or even interested in the history of video games, add Pixel Remaster to your collection or wish list; here are very important chapters of a fantasy that deserve to be experienced — and it's great that we can do this on new platforms, whether for the first or the thousandth time.

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Monster Energy Supercross - The Official Videogame 6 simply cares about improving the experience of being in an intense race, and it has achieved it with flying colors. However, basically having the same thing in terms of content can end up leaving that impression of more of the same, which fatally ends up affecting sports games.

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Horizon Forbidden West: Burning Shores is a competent DLC that adds subtle improvements to one of the most fantastic adventures of recent times in video games. Despite not adding much in terms of history, the new region still yields good hours of gameplay for those who like to venture into the post-apocalyptic world of Guerilla Games.

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Dungeon Drafters merges good ideas into a remarkable deck-building roguelike. Tactical combat is its biggest highlight because of the countless possibilities, combos and synergies provided by the magic cards. Besides that, each dungeon has a different rhythm with its different enemies and traps, which adds variety to the runs. The challenge is high, with constant defeat. This is part of the game cycle, as the intent is to learn from mistakes, make adjustments, and try again. However, some negative points hinder the experience, such as unintuitive terms and interface, little room for errors and an overall somewhat slow pace. In the end, it's worth taking on the creative tactical challenges of Dungeon Drafters. You just need to be willing to dedicate yourself to move forward.

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I really wanted to have a positive experience with Troublemaker. You can see that the developers had their hearts in place. There was also ambition, which is good for creativity. However, none of this is enough if you lack the technical capacity to execute your ideas properly.

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Cassette Beasts is clearly inspired by Pokémon and takes advantage of a popular concept to create something unique. Its combat system combining interactions between types, fusions and point consumption, along with its fun and sinister story, makes it a unique game and much deeper than it initially appears. Its problems can be fixed in the future, especially those related to movement. Therefore, it is impossible not to recommend the title, especially for fans of pocket monsters.

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Short but well-paced, Nuclear Blaze focuses on the urgency of the fire to create an intense experience. The game benefits from the great use of effects to enrich the simple pixel art and add to an atmosphere of mystery that, even if it's not deep or surprising, gives fuel to keep the flame burning bright for as long as it lasts. The heat gets intense in Hold My Glass mode and it can be frustrating, but the difficulty adjustments make the game accessible to any audience, even very young children, who can also enjoy the Kids Mode, designed especially for them.

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Trinity Trigger is an action RPG whose combat offers good malleability and a decent amount of content. Unfortunately, the generic narrative and the bad allies AI oare considerably negative factors for the experience and, together with some polishing details, leave the game short of what it could offer. Still, those who really like the genre will probably know how to appreciate the journey.

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