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Perhaps because he’s so cute and marketable, Yoshi’s adventures have been designed for a younger and younger audience for the last several years. 2006’s Yoshi’s Island DS was not out-of-step with the difficulty of a mainline Mario game, but since then, the challenge of mainline…
Following up a game as lauded as Disco Elysium would be an unenviable task for any developer, but especially one as fractured as ZA/UM. With many of the key creative minds behind the detective RPG separated from the studio following an ugly, and very public, legal dispute, it’s…
People of Note was clearly made with lots of love, but it is also a deeply silly game. Conflicts are resolved between musicians flinging music at each other, a simple country-wide road trip transforms into a battle to save all of reality, and somehow everyone is convinced that…
Mario Wonder's Switch 2 upgrade adds neat single-player content, but the real draw is the massive array of multiplayer party games.
An approachable endgame, player housing, and a nostalgic campaign make WoW's 11th expansion worth playing for new and returning players.
Crimson Desert's spectacular open world and thrilling combat are only let down by a few narrative and quality-of-life issues.
Monster Hunter Stories 3: Twisted Reflection is an excellent turn-based RPG with a compelling hunt-capture-craft gameplay loop that will keep you engaged for dozens of hours.
Finally, 2K is addressing problems we've had for a long time.
Scott Pilgrim EX doesn't reinvent the wheel for the brawler genre, but solid mechanics complemented by excellent art and music carry it for its short playtime.
Bungie's slick extraction shooter is great at creating tense battles, incredible highs, and painful lows, with a future that's full of promise.
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.
This "Disco-like" RPG has a colorful world and sense of humor worth checking out.
But it's difficult to recommend, because so much of the metroidvania design--the core of the genre that Kratos has found himself in--is like that frozen wasteland: slowly plodding through, just trying to reach the next warm spot where it's fun again.
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.