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Beholder: Complete Edition
My issue with Blissful Sleep comes from its abundance of instances where nothing happens. If you mess up a few questlines, you have almost nothing to do for long stretches of time. Though you can fast forward time, it would sometimes feel like you’re just waiting for Hector to get...
Red Dead Redemption 2
As densely detailed as the game is, there’s a lot to actually do out there in the open world. Each member of your gang will have missions for you to undertake, engaging ones that give insight into who they are, and really allows you to get to know each member...
Visually, RIDE 3 is decent in motion and inconsistent when static. As is the case with many bike games, the human faces are sort of off-putting. Your rider looks fine in their racing gear (with their helmet on), and tracks look alright in motion. It’s all just fine though, nothing...
As a minor point, I really like that the story is presented in the same way that Persona 4 presented its narrative. Animated illustrations of each character appear when they talk, making different expressions while blinking and striking poses. It goes a long way in solidifying Dancing All Night as...
Spyro Reignited Trilogy
The voicework is great, with Tom Kenny once again proving that he’s one of the most memorable voices in the industry for good reason. The newly-designed dragons’ voices give them much more character as well, as they each feel like their own dragon instead of reskinned clones of the first...
Similar to how I felt in my review of Dynasty Warriors 9 from earlier this year, I feel like there’s a better game hiding beneath the surface of Warriors Orochi 4. As you progress through the game, you’ll unlock more and more characters. It plays into the story, but I...
Hitman 2
The final morsel in this multiplayer package is perhaps the juiciest of them all. Ghost mode is new for the franchise and is probably the first proper competitive multiplayer mode for the series. In it you and another player will race to hunt down five targets, the caveat being that...
Call of Cthulhu
The other area in which Call of Cthulhu does struggle is its visuals, which are best described as inconsistent. While the supernatural creatures and eerie surroundings look fantastic, the human models run the gamut from creepy to laughably stone-faced. Some big moments in the story are dampened by the goofy...
LEGO DC Super-Villains
Lego DC Super Villains continues the trend of recent Lego games looking fantastic. I love that that each minifig and build looks as if it was made from real Lego. Each iconic character is made even more realistic through the game’s top-notch voicework. Legendary voice talent like Kevin Conroy, Mark...
My Hero One's Justice
The visual style of One’s Justice is essentially perfect when it comes to adapting Kohei Horikoshi’s artstyle to 3D. In the same way that Fist of the North Star: Lost Paradise is the perfect recreation of Fist of the North Star’s artstyle, One’s Justice looks identical to its source material in...
SoulCalibur VI
The music in SoulCalibur VI successfully captures the feeling of adventure and fantasy that SoulCalibur is all about, as does the over-the-top voice-acting that suits the series so well. The narrator/announcer is as hammy as ever, which I consider to be an essential part for any SoulCalibur game.
Achtung! Cthulhu Tactics
Instead of a campaign along the lines of an XCOM or Jagged Alliance, there’s a main storyline and side missions. The story missions tell the main story and side missions give you a little more XP and gear. So you’d be an idiot not to do the side missions. So...
