Josh Wise
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Telling Lies expands on the concept Sam Barlow created for Her Story, with an intriguing web of characters and mysteries, but some of the more wayward elements of its plot pull you away from the intimate drama.
Control is Remedy at its best: pulpy, weird, and immensely satisfying to play. Its setting is a potent concoction of '60s brutalist style and wacky sci-fi. Performance issues hamper the shootouts, and the characters are a little cold, but it's the setting and atmosphere that win the day.
A formulaic Metroidvania with satisfying combat and a thick mood in the air, Blasphemous uses its pixel art style and fixation on religious iconography to establish a powerful vision of a forsaken world.
Taro’s approach is of a restless rarity; he swaps genres as though trying to scratch an itch.
In that image lies the appeal—and for some the off-putting twinge—of Oddworld: a bleak and black-hearted concoction, laced with snickering humour and shot through with hope.
The best time I had with the game was a ten-minute stretch that contained (a) no crashes or bugs, (b) the right level and world tier—essentially, a measure of enemy toughness—and (c) a harmony of tactics, sorcery, and gunfire.
John Wick Hex could have been a number of different games, none of them as strange and satisfying as this.
Does it succeed? Well, I don’t know—I’m not an astronaut—but I can report that it has a pleasing gravity.
Nioh 2
With Nioh 2, Team Ninja has done a better job than anyone else at making smart innovations to a treasured design template.
Wattam
Wattam should be played, if for no other reason than to see a designer expressing ambivalence about his own ideas.
It’s a game of MacGuffins, so to speak—what you’re doing and why you’re doing it is inessential to the joys and the juice on offer.
Luigi's Mansion 3 is a beautifully animated adventure with satisfying puzzles and gadgets; it suffers slightly for its length, but a deep well of charm and humour win the day.
