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SpongeBob SquarePants: The Tidal Titans doesn’t reinvent the genre, but delivers a fun, solid adventure true to the show’s spirit. With silly gags, simple yet effective mechanics, and competent technical work, Purple Lamp offers a pleasant platformer for both longtime fans and newcomers. The lack of Italian dubbing is a drawback, yet the game still provides carefree entertainment and genuine laughs—exactly what you’d expect from a sponge living in a pineapple under the sea.

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Goodnight Universe isn’t about puzzles or complex gameplay, but about telling a story that lingers. Isaac, more than a baby with unusual powers, reflects our fears and fragilities. Despite some technical shortcomings—like missing head-tracking on consoles—the emotional core remains strong. In just four unforgettable hours, the game makes you smile, think, and even tear up, leaving behind that bittersweet feeling only well‑told stories can give.

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Lumines Arise isn’t just the return of a musical puzzle game—it’s a celebration of an idea that keeps evolving while honoring its roots. Enhance delivers an experience both familiar and surprising, with hypnotic rhythms and kaleidoscopic visuals. Easy to grasp in seconds yet captivating for hours, it becomes a true sensory immersion on PSVR2. Whether you’re a longtime fan or a curious newcomer, Lumines Arise invites you to play with music, dance with colors, and lose yourself in its world—where leaving won’t be easy.

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PowerWash Simulator 2 feels like a sequel made more out of obligation than inspiration. It adds quantity but loses quality. The experience remains fundamentally the same — just more complicated, slower, and less enjoyable. Sure, the multiplayer mode is still pleasant and offers a few moments of lighthearted fun with friends, but finding people willing to buy the same game again will be a challenge in itself. A missed opportunity, and a real shame — let’s just hope that a possible third installment will finally give some real meaning to its number.

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A Pizza Delivery is a raw debut that nevertheless strikes with its quirks and peculiarities. It's the kind of game best enjoyed alongside a hot, steaming pizza, keeping you occupied for an evening while also making you reflect. Because, deep down, pizza is the food that brings relief and peace to yourself for a moment, and it's true that if the world ate more pizza, the pointless wars we are witnessing in this historical period might not exist.

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With Digimon Story: Time Stranger, Media.Vision proves it can evolve the series and make it appealing to a broader audience. The blend of Persona-inspired mechanics, a wide variety of content, strong narrative focus, and impressive visual design makes this entry a true turning point for the franchise. The turn-based combat works beautifully, the animations shine, and the action-packed cutscenes add just the right cinematic flair, marking a triumphant return for the series — one not to be missed by Digimon fans and anyone who loves well-crafted JRPGs. Nevertheless, after the inevitable hours of grinding, one can’t help but feel that the game could have stood out even more had it dared to take a few creative risks, stepping away from well-trodden paths in favor of fresher, bolder ideas.

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ARC Raiders is truly a gem in a genre of games that tend to be mediocre and solely focused on the most brutal and cruel PvP possible. It's as fun as the others, if not more, and even boasts a few new systems, though not a revolution. It also boasts surprisingly high graphics and narrative quality, despite costing about half the price of a current AAA title. It's certainly a quality product that could likely become the new industry standard.

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The Cabin Factory is a small indie horror experiment that, despite its simplicity, delivers. It doesn’t reinvent the genre or offer deep gameplay, but it builds tension effectively with minimal, well-crafted elements. A short, atmospheric experience that proves even limited resources can tell a disturbing and engaging story.

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Once Upon a Katamari is exactly what fans hoped for: a surreal, colorful, and delightfully weird return that stays true to its roots while adding just enough freshness. With new challenges, light power-ups, a freer structure, and an unforgettable soundtrack, it entertains without losing its essence. Not a revolution, but a joyful celebration of everything that makes Katamari unique—sometimes, all you need is to roll through chaos with a smile.

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Simon the Sorcerer Origins is not an exercise in nostalgia, but a conscious act of love toward the genre. Rather than trying to reinvent the lineage it stems from, it aims to recapture the magic of classic point-and-click adventures through modern tools, a delicate balance that Smallthing Studios seems to handle with both respect and personality. Perhaps the world is ready for Simon’s grand return.

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Wreckreation is a bold experiment that blends Burnout’s explosive chaos with TrackMania’s creative freedom, all set in an open world reminiscent of Forza Horizon. The result is a fun, customizable arcade racer that shines online, especially for players who love building, sharing, and destroying. While design choices and technical limits may disappoint solo players seeking a deeper experience, it remains a heartfelt tribute to arcade racing fans from developers who helped shape the genre.

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Godbreakers is fun and dynamic. The art style is minimalist yet refined, the combat is fluid and inviting, and there's a huge variety of equipment, upgrades, and special attacks available. It's a respectable gaming package at a relatively reasonable price. However, if you're looking for a deep and diverse experience, Godbreaker may not be the right title for you. The game's launch content isn't particularly varied and diverse, making the experience quickly repetitive. This repetitiveness is partially mitigated by online co-op, though not completely eliminated.

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The Elf on the Shelf: Holiday Heroes is a lighthearted Christmas adventure designed for young children. While it lacks technical ambition and deep gameplay, it delivers simple fun and festive charm. Perfect for families seeking a sweet, reassuring holiday experience—just don’t expect a gamer’s challenge, and maybe keep a cookie ready for Santa.

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The Outer Worlds 2 delivers a classic more of the same experience, but in the best possible way: it builds upon the original’s formula and expands it in every aspect, creating a deeper, more engaging RPG. The narrative shines with sharp satire and social critique, supported by an incredibly broad and flexible choice system that ensures high replay value. The player’s ability to shape their character through abilities, flaws, and interactions with a living, dynamic world results in a deeply personalized and never predictable experience. Gameplay strikes a solid balance between dialogue, stealth, and combat, featuring a well-implemented progression and perk system. Technically, this sequel marks a significant leap forward, presenting vibrant, detailed worlds infused with a unique blend of retrofuturism and sci-fi western aesthetics that give it a distinctive visual identity. Some elements fall short, however—particularly the third-person mode, which feels underwhelming and poorly executed, and the enemy AI, which, despite improvements, remains easily exploitable. These issues slightly hold back what would otherwise be a near-flawless experience.

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Pokémon Legends: Z-A represents a step forward for the series, offering a fresh and, above all, entertaining experience that makes hours of gameplay fly by like minutes. The only real obstacles lie in its outdated game engine and a level design that sometimes hinders the player, undermining the overall experience and lowering the game’s value. Nevertheless, there is strong hope that this marks the new direction Game Freak intends to pursue for future titles, and that the studio will finally set aside its now overused engine to deliver a game that, both visually and technically, truly lives up to its name.

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Battlefield 6 is masterfully controlled chaos. It's cinema and fury, as well as dynamic fun and a necessary return to the roots. Dice's product, despite its excellence, is "broken": while Battlefield 6's multiplayer is excellent from a gameplay perspective, the single-player experience remains limited and negligible. Another limitation is conceptual: the game is more than solid and polished in almost every aspect, but it lacks "courage" (probably the same courage 2042 had on paper, even though it didn't perform as well as it would have liked). It remains an excellent experience and the best in terms of "simulating" large-scale conflicts.

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Ninja Gaiden 4 is a triumphant return, a successful fusion between Team NINJA’s elegance and PlatinumGames’ trademark spectacle. With its deep combat system, an all-new protagonist, and a world that lives and dies alongside the player, this new chapter manages to honor the legend of Ryu Hayabusa while paving the way for a new generation of ninjas. It’s not just a sequel; it’s a rebirth, a statement on how to reinvent an icon without betraying its soul. At its core, Ninja Gaiden 4 is a true lesson in design and discipline. We’d like to thank Xbox for providing us with a review code for this game.

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Spindle delivers a poetic pixel-art journey where Death and a loyal pig face a world that refuses to die. Its melancholic beauty, heartfelt storytelling, and charming design make it an indie gem.

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Ghost of Yotei doesn’t reinvent the formula—it refines it with care and passion. Sucker Punch delivers another emotionally rich and visually stunning world. Despite a few technical flaws and a predictable start, Atsu’s journey shines through deep combat, breathtaking art direction, and a graceful tribute to Japanese folklore and cinema. It’s not groundbreaking, but if you loved Ghost of Tsushima, this chapter will win you over.

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FINAL FANTASY TACTICS – The Ivalice Chronicles offers new light on a thirty-year-old title, improving it with revised UI and English and Japanese voice-acting, yet once again lacking Italian localization and retaining the barrier of complexity due to approximate and generic tutorials that miss the mark. Play it if you want a challenging title with excellent storytelling set in the Final Fantasy universe, while being aware that it departs almost entirely from the main saga in almost every aspect.

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