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Valkyria Revolution
The true misery of Valkyria Revolution is how much of the series’ roots show through, and how much Revolution itself doesn’t know what to do with them. The qualities that defined earlier Valkyria games are mostly vestigial, but Revolution doesn’t present anything strong enough or distinct enough to replace them....
The Fidelio Incident
The Fidelio Incident makes an admirable attempt to approach a difficult subject from a unique angle. But it fails to capture the emotional subtlety or artful storytelling that games like Gone Home, Firewatch and Virginia have demonstrated within the same kind of framework.
Perception
Perception is full of interesting ideas, both mechanically and narratively, but it never fully commits. It’s a game about being blind that allows you to see. It’s a game about things that go bump in the night, but those horrors rarely show up to threaten you. There are some strong...
Reservoir Dogs is a movie that succeeds on its attitude and storytelling. Without any of those elements making it into Reservoir Dogs: Bloody Days, the attempts to remind me of the film became an annoyance, a reminder that I could be doing something better with my time. But even without...
Dead Cells
To be straight with you, I had to really plumb the depths of my critical mind to scrounge up those dings. They are problems, don't get me wrong. They just can't come close to dimming the pleasure of this fast, fluid experience. Dead Cells may be the most fun I've...
Old Man's Journey
The result is a game that reminds me of a picture postcard, or maybe a whimsical poem written by a friend on a long vacation. Old Man’s Journey is sweet, meandering and undemanding, a pleasant while-away that’s full of feeling, at least for as long as the wandering lasts.
Injustice 2
Injustice 2 is NetherRealm once again outdoing itself. This is the best, most polished, most impressively produced story mode to ever feature in a fighting game. The game’s cast — more than a dozen of which are newly playable characters — is varied and interesting, thanks to additions like Swamp...
NBA Playgrounds
NBA Playgrounds is very nice to look at, and its roster has a strong depth that any basketball fan will appreciate. But rather than build a game with hilarious, rollicking action and balance out how that is scored and defended, NBA Playgrounds imposes condition after condition on the users and...
Birthdays the Beginning
In the end, that’s maybe the biggest problem with Birthdays the Beginning: It often feels more like a thing to do rather than a game to play. While I loved the cute aesthetic and simplicity of its mechanics, the game gave way to tediousness and dullness far too often for...
TumbleSeed
The frustration in TumbleSeed seems to be by design, at least, but it didn’t feel particularly earned. This is the type of game where you’re meant to die dozens of times, that will take tens of hours to reach the “end,” even before taking into account the daily challenges and...
Dragon Quest Heroes II
Dragon Quest Heroes 2 was reviewed using a retail PS4 code provided by Square-Enix. You can find additional information about Polygon’s ethics statement here.
Full Throttle Remastered
Maybe I’m just really bad at vehicular sections of games, but I spent an inordinate amount of time rumbling through the Mine Road — a curvy section that circles the larger highway at that point in the game — trying to successfully fight other bikers. There’s even an NPC called...