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The Frozen Wilds doesn’t feel like a must-play add-on, but it’s more Horizon Zero Dawn. It’s something you can enjoy once or stack with New Game+ runs when you inevitably play through it again. In other words, an actual expansion.
While I do wish that there was a bit more of it, what’s here is phenomenal. This is a game I’ll definitely be revisiting for the foreseeable future. It manages to take a grab bag of various mechanics, lifted from its influences, and turn them into something totally fresh and...
Despite all of the minor gameplay upgrades in Super Lucky’s Tale, I actually had a better time playing as Lucky in VR last year. It was really cool to be able to “peek” around things and control the camera yourself, and despite all of the claims that “platformers don’t benefit...
Part political commentary, part comic-book farce, completely batshit insane, and as primal as an FPS title can be, Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus is certainly recommended. It has a great cast, wicked visuals, breathless combat, and unforgettable story moments. It cannot be denied that there are flaws, and they are...
Has there ever been a bad 3D Mario game? Many would reserve that honor for Super Mario Sunshine (my least favorite), but it’s a far cry from a failure. No, before shipping any iteration of its flagship franchise, Nintendo ensures that a proper level of care goes into its plumber, and...
If you enjoyed Yomawari: Night Alone, you’ll love Midnight Shadows. It keeps the creative elements of its predecessor intact while expanding on some of its finer points. If you haven’t played Night Alone, you can still jump into Midnight Shadows and experience the same surprises as the original, both scary and cute.
Those complaints aside, I enjoyed my time with The Mummy Demastered from near beginning to end. (My initial playthrough took four hours but I still have half of the 50 optional “relics” to suss out.) This game doesn’t do anything meaningfully new or original for metroidvania fans, but everything here...
I’ve complained a lot, right? And yet, I do feel like there’s a strong core underneath all the issues I had with Chaos;Child. With fixes to the localization oddities and a more condensed game mode, I believe the fun character interactions and the thrill of the murder cases wrapping themselves around...
With the power to pick up the Switch tablet and storm through History on the go, Fire Emblem Warriors is still going to get some play in my house despite its issues. It follows a set formula with very little in the way of risk-taking, but so long as you can...
Elex
All in all, though, the game remains an impressive, if flawed, effort. Toting an interesting setting and some standout design choices, ELEX goes farther than any previous Piranha Bytes game in making the case for sticking with it in pursuit of a certain old-school ideal of RPG gaming, even if it...
While my group and I enjoyed trying out this year’s Party Pack, it’s fair to say it didn’t live up to my expectations. It’s still a lot of fun, and there were frequent outbursts of laughter in my living room. But there really wasn’t a standout title here, nothing to...
