Polygon's Reviews
It gets the balance right between nostalgic touches and clever new twists, and never once let me down with a boring boss or too-familiar retread. In all my years of playing with the Mario gang, I've never been quite so happy to hurl myself into the unknown, and 3D World delivers challenge, surprise and joy in almost every moment.
Crimson Dragon is a total misfire
Dead Rising 3 is a promising, ultimately clumsy next-gen debut
Zoo Tycoon overcomes some small issues with charm and a good heart
A Link Between Worlds is the sequel I never knew I wanted
That absence of meaningful evolution might be Killzone: Shadow Fall's biggest sin. For all the next-gen bluster of its visuals and the repeated blunt-force attempts to ram a message home, Guerilla's first shot on the PS4 retreads shooter cliches, and poorly. In a launch lineup crowded with shooters, Killzone: Shadow Fall sits at the bottom.
The moments of payoff come too infrequently to make plodding through another three dozen frustrating enemies any less tedious.
Contrast is a frequently beautiful mess
Resogun is a collision of 1980s shooters, 1990s bullet-hells and 2010s aesthetic. It's as simple or difficult as you want it to be. Sure, it borrows great ideas quite liberally. But Resogun's best idea is smashing them all together into a singular, spectacular laser light show.
The return trip to Rapture is welcome, but Burial At Sea's first episode is confusing
Mario and Sonic at the Sochi 2014 Olympic Winter Games is too superficial to win gold
Assassin's Creed 4 is constantly waiting for its dare-to-be-great moment
Battlefield 4 melds elements of its predecessors, but their baggage weighs it down
Pokemon X and Y is a completely interconnected experience, which is exactly how Pokemon is meant to be played — a fact I'd forgotten since my schoolyard days.
Final Fantasy 14 redeems the series' greatest disaster
Like Origins before it, Rayman Legends is polished, pretty and addicting. Legends has teeth — especially when it comes to invaded stages, and some later bosses almost caused me to put a controller or two into orbit. But it's hard to point to another 2D platformer that has the level of variety and quality that Rayman Legends boasts.
Neverwinter's engaging combat and plentiful free content make up for limited customization.
Rogue Legacy rewards patience with non-stop surprises.
The Night of the Rabbit's world and characters are sweet without being cloying, while the gameplay requires serious adventure-game-logic chops. It appeals equally to innocence and experience. A few overly obscure puzzles slow the pace to a crawl, but Jerry's journey is worth taking — even if only to feel like a kid again for a little while.
Though it struggles with scale, PlanetSide 2 provides a unique, fascinating view of war.