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Whitney Reynolds·Mar 30, 2017

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Thimbleweed Park is almost too successful channeling a different era of adventure games.

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Philip Kollar·Mar 29, 2017

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It successfully pushes this series to new heights of polish, allure and charm. It has a few blemishes, enough to distract a bit from the intriguing and weighty themes that the game wrestles with. But even through the rough patches, Persona 5 doesn't give up a drop of its colorful personality.

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Janine Hawkins·Mar 27, 2017

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With core systems opaque and unnecessarily limited, all I ever felt equipped to do in Rain World was fail.

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Colin Campbell·Mar 21, 2017

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This is an exceptional piece of fantasy fiction, a metamorphosis machine, a toy, a game like no other. It's a work of deep imagination, humor and thoughtfulness. Everything held me captive for many hours, and will continue to do so. It's brave, bizarre, compelling and beautiful.

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Arthur Gies·Mar 20, 2017

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Andromeda succeeds, despite a host of problems

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Noah Caldwell-Gervais·Mar 15, 2017

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Wildlands wants to be both an ultraviolent cartoon and a grounded, ripped-from-the-headlines thriller. It can't do both, and it's much better at being silly and absurd. The mechanical experience of it is as freewheeling a sandbox as I've ever seen, but the frame, the tone and the script weigh it down like an anchor.

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Carli Velocci·Mar 9, 2017

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Aside from some issues with encounter balance and my yearnings for more detail, it's a beautiful, challenging game, content to be ambiguous, rich and confounding in ways that few other RPGs have ever pulled off.

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Janine Hawkins·Mar 6, 2017

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If that's my biggest problem with it after clearing each of the game's five core endings, that should say everything. Nier: Automata is a game that's more than willing to make players feel small, both physically and conceptually. It wants to swallow them whole, and it succeeds. Nier demands patience with its antics — not to mention its definition of "ending" — but it's patience was rewarded.

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Justin McElroy·Mar 3, 2017

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Night in the Woods isn't perfect. I'm not perfect. You're not perfect. Life isn't perfect. But as the game itself tries to espouse, if you've got the patience, you may find that there is true beauty in that revelation.

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Arthur Gies·Mar 2, 2017

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I guess, in the end, it's not just that Breath of the Wild signals that Zelda has finally evolved and moved beyond the structure it's leaned on for so long. It's that the evolution in question has required Nintendo to finally treat its audience like intelligent people. That newfound respect has led to something big, and different, and exciting. But in an open world full of big changes, Breath of the Wild also almost always feels like a Zelda game — and establishes itself as the first current, vital-feeling Zelda in almost 20 years.

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Owen Good·Feb 22, 2017

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For Honor is worth the work you have to put into it

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Philip Kollar·Feb 20, 2017

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Horizon Zero Dawn feels like a storied developer finally finding its voice

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Matt Paprocki·Feb 18, 2017

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With its inconsequential story and addiction to inane splatter kills, Rebellion's Sniper Elite 4 doesn't subvert expectations. It doesn't have to necessarily: The appeal of shooting digital Nazis may never stagnate, and increasing the scale of each stage means more Nazis to kill and an increased potential for strategy. But a bigger scope makes the inherent problems more visible.

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Arthur Gies·Feb 16, 2017

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Halo Wars 2 can't stick its landing, but it remains accessible without feeling dumbed down

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Allegra Frank·Feb 10, 2017

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For better and worse, We Are Chicago dares to spend as much time on life's tinier moments as its most dramatic ones. That balance isn't always maintained successfully: Blunt dialogue often undercuts the power of otherwise understated scenes. But the combination of the two still gave me a broader, better perspective of what life is really like on the South Side.