Dan Stapleton

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Dan Stapleton·Apr 26, 2023

Critic90/100

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If Respawn makes a third game like Star Wars Jedi: Survivor and Fallen Order, it'll complete the best Star Wars trilogy in 30 years, hands down.

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Dan Stapleton·Nov 30, 2022

Critic80/100

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Marvel's Midnight Suns is an expansive tactical RPG that makes great use of card game mechanics to inject variety and unpredictability into its excellent combat.

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Dan Stapleton·Jun 3, 2022

Critic60/100

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Hardspace: Shipbreaker makes disassembling giant spacecraft piece by piece fun for a bit, but due to a lack of variety in objectives it soon devolves into hard labor.

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Dan Stapleton·Mar 31, 2022

Critic80/100

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Weird West's five dark-fantasy adventures contain a wagonload of bizarre encounters, twists, and reveals, and its stealth and chaotic combat are challenging but come with the built-in safety nets of unlimited slow-motion and an old-school quickload system.

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Dan Stapleton·Feb 11, 2022

Critic70/100

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It may look extremely basic, but if you give Vampire Survivors' clever one-stick shooter idea a chance to sink its teeth into you it might not let go for a while.

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Dan Stapleton·Dec 4, 2021

Critic80/100

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Chorus gives you fun and flashy superpowers that make its space dogfights stand out, along with its strong main characters and beautiful scenery.

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Dan Stapleton·Nov 6, 2021

Critic80/100

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Mass Effect 3: Legendary Edition brings the finale of this epic sci-fi RPG trilogy up to 4K code. The lack of multiplayer is a downer but there's a huge and consequential story here that wraps up numerous plots from the previous games

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Dan Stapleton·Jun 30, 2021

Critic90/100

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Mass Effect 2's Legendary Edition upgrades the graphics to near-modern standards and lets us immerse ourselves in the best game in BioWare's epic RPG trilogy all over again.

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Dan Stapleton·May 21, 2021

Critic80/100

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The first chapter's remaster removes many – but not all – of the caveats from my strong recommendation to revisit BioWare's epic sci-fi RPG from the beginning (or to play it for the first time).

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Dan Stapleton·Mar 17, 2021

Critic70/100

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Obsidian has leaned hard into turning The Outer Worlds into a sci-fi detective game with its two DLC expansions – a direction that plays to the strengths of its characters and writing.

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Dan Stapleton·Dec 17, 2020

Critic90/100

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When my wife first saw me playing Monster Train she thought I’d gotten…

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Dan Stapleton·Oct 28, 2020

Critic80/100

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Bold use of roguelike mechanics in an open-world action game pays off in interesting ways.

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Dan Stapleton·Sep 24, 2020

Critic50/100

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On the wrong side of history in the battle of quantity vs quantity.

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Dan Stapleton·Sep 9, 2020

Critic70/100

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The long-awaited first DLC falls squarely into the “more of a good thing” category.

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Dan Stapleton·Jul 15, 2020

Critic70/100

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Orcs Must Die! 3 is very familiar to players of the second game but still a fun and goofy action/tower-defense challenge.