Alan Wen
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Not needing to reinvent the wheel, Puyo Puyo Tetris 2 delivers the same fun and brilliant mash-up of two of the best drop-puzzle games ever with a healthy dollop of content, both classic and new. The jury's still out on whether the new Skill Battles will change things up, but...
Already delayed multiple times this year (which frankly feels like a lifetime in 2020), it’s been a long wait for CD Projekt Red’s follow-up to its smash hit The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt. The wait combined with all the fevered discussion around the game has intensified to the point that gamers have...
But then Demon’s Souls isn’t just any old game. Originally only released in Japan, the hardcore action RPG gained reverence through pure word of mouth, eventually leading to the more successful Dark Souls trilogy, which went on to influence whole generations of game developers, even if very few could ever...
A larger more ambitious game from Giant Squid that shares influences with Breath of the Wild only to subvert it in clever ways: retooling a bow as an ingenious mode of traversal and puzzle solving, an open world with no map, and a shooter where you don’t have to aim....
Just as a Marvel film isn’t just a film but a chapter of a whole cinematic universe, Marvel’s Avengers isn’t just a game, but a service you’re expected to play long into the next generation.
Ghost of Tsushima arrives at an opportune time just as games are having a bit of a samurai renaissance, as demonstrated by Nioh and Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice.
Fun fact: Halo began life as a real-time strategy before shifting gears into the iconic FPS it is today.
There’s nothing more contagious in video games than sequelitis, but even then, The Last of Us felt like a masterpiece that should have been left alone.
For those who owned a Sega Mega Drive in the 90s, chances are your fondest memories were not of a speedy blue hedgehog but battering thugs with a mate on neon-soaked streets.
The original game, first released in 1997, was responsible for awakening audiences to the emotional power of video game storytelling and effectively putting Japanese role-playing games on the global map.
Following the high bar of last year’s Resident Evil 2 (our 2019 game of the year, no less), this doesn’t just remake the original PS1 game from the ground up, but manages to take inspiration from much of the series’ history.
Compared to Gears 5 or Sea of Thieves, Ori and the Will of the Wisps may seem one of Microsoft’s more modest offerings.
