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A novel mecha-based take on the hero shooter that delivers the pilot fantasy with style and feels like what a modern-day team-based Virtual On might be. Yet, while more approachable in its hero and extraction shooter guises, it also lacks deeper level customization in favor of more shallow cosmetics delivered with aggressive microtransactions.
With a mediocre story and lackluster gameplay that wastes the potential of its sci-fi premise of big tech and AI, MindsEye is a resoundingly disappointing action-adventure that's neither satisfying as an old genre throwback nor presents a confident foundation for others to build upon.
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 is an outstanding visionary debut from Sandfall Interactive, which isn't merely a love letter to JRPGs but builds on its traditions with a distinctly French identity, making for one of the most exciting and rewarding action and turn-based hybrid battle systems ever devised, while putting you through the emotional wringer. This is an old-school feeling JRPG as dynamic as Persona but with parry-filled battles as hard-won as Sekiro.
Both the most approachable and most accomplished Monster Hunter yet, Wilds has the systems and the substance to keep you in for the long haul.
Eternal Strands is a light and breezy fantasy action RPG that's elevated by its innovative use of physics-based magic that makes even minor combat encounters feel novel. It's also thrilling to take on the larger foes, though this is more short-lived than the likes of Monster Hunter.
Mario may be Nintendo’s mascot but you shouldn’t discount Donkey Kong, who’s been around just as long – and the original star/antagonist of the company’s smash arcade hit more than four decades ago. These days however, we know the ape better for his own console platforming series, which actually celebrated its 30th anniversary last year.
Don the fedora for a brainy and thrilling globe-trotting blockbuster
A simplistic yet digestible family-friendly adventure, Lego Horizon Adventures has something for fans of both games.
Nintendo has been on a remake kick recently. First we got a Switch revival of oddball SNES release Mario RPG, then the return of long-overdue cult classic Paper Mario: The Thousand Year Door. But what about something new? Thank goodness, then, for Mario & Luigi: Brothership.
An atmospheric urban action horror with unique ideas, but Slitterhead is undermined by messy execution