
Vampire Crawlers walks the line between familiar and fresh nearly perfectly.


Vampire Crawlers walks the line between familiar and fresh nearly perfectly.

Mario Wonder's Switch 2 upgrade adds neat single-player content, but the real draw is the massive array of multiplayer party games.

Finally, 2K is addressing problems we've had for a long time.

Planet of Lana II doesn't do anything novel with its gameplay, but like its predecessor, it delivers an incredible story told with beautiful visuals and music.

Bungie's slick extraction shooter is great at creating tense battles, incredible highs, and painful lows, with a future that's full of promise.

A cozy life sim makes for an unexpectedly excellent way to ring in 30 years of Pokemon, elegantly capturing what has made the series so enduring.

With Requiem, Capcom refines its Resident Evil formula to its best parts, but it sometimes relies too much on past triumphs.

High On Life 2 improves on its predecessor with a skateboard, biting satire, and boundless creativity, but middling combat and an uneven hit rate hold it back.

This first-person shooter draws from excellent inspirations but doesn't quite stick the landing on its own merits.

Reanimal's story is harrowing and dark, and the accompanying visuals make it somewhat of a spectacle. Sadly, it falls short on its lack of challenging puzzle moments.

Romeo Is a Dead Man is as odd as you'd expect from a Suda51 game, but it doesn't quite come together into a coherent experience.

Mario Tennis Fever is the best Mario sports game in years thanks to the fun and flexible new Fever rackets that imbue the game with wild, game-changing effects.

Kiwami 3 is the boldest remake of the series to date, but it makes for an uneven retelling that threatens to taint the series' legacy in the process.

Mewgenics' challenging gameplay, unparalleled depth, and irreverent humor keeps you engaged for hours on end.

Dragon Quest VII: Reimagined slims down and modernizes a notoriously bloated classic RPG, though its anthology structure still feels overlong.