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Where Winds Meet
Marriage, sumo wrestling, becoming a doctor and healing other players, going to prison, player housing, multiplayer raids, and a single-player campaign are all things present in Where Winds Meet. In other words, Where Winds Meet has a lot of different gameplay elements crammed into it. It’s the most “let’s put...
Unbeatable
There’s a lurch in Unbeatable, the debut work from developer D-Cell Games, finally out after a successful Kickstarter campaign in 2021. Pink-haired and surly protagonist Beat and her soon-to-be bandmates are locked up in a prison, with no choice but to get through the doldrums of inmate life before the...
Skate Story
Skate Story is a striking game at first glance, but players will see that its true beauty lies deep beneath its protagonist’s glassy veneer. The game masterfully celebrates skater culture, offers a tip of the fedora to counterculture life in metropolises like Manhattan, and puts together a fresh gameplay experience...
With the Octopath Traveler series, Square Enix went in a different direction than its previous RPGs. Rather than focus on a single main protagonist, the idea was to focus on eight of them. They'd come from different walks of life, but fate would bring them together to fight alongside each...
Metroid Prime 4 has finally arrived after eight years of anticipation. Now subtitled “Beyond,” the latest chapter in Samus’ journey takes her to a mysterious new planet where she comes face-to-face with dangerous enemies both new and old. It’s a grand FPS experience that highlights all of the Switch 2’s...
Sleep Awake
I know what it feels like to desperately want to sleep. A medication mishap left me unable to sleep for three or four days. I laid in bed each night trying to make it happen, then drifted through the following days struggling to focus on things like work. It started...
Tribute Games has been doing cool things for quite a long time, but the studio won a tidal wave of love with its 2022 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2D co-op beat-‘em-up, Shredder’s Revenge. It should have come as no surprise that with such a stellar release, Tribute would be tapped...
ARC Raiders
The extraction shooter genre is analogous to itself. Many extraction shooter games enter the fray, attempt to scoop up as much loot (players) as possible and survive long enough to be successful (extract). It’s certainly not often a new one comes along and even when it does, much like the...
Constance
Platforming and Metroidvania go hand-in-hand, but few games simultaneously tap into what makes both of these genres so great as well as Constance does. Constance takes notes from what many consider to be the pinnacle of both genres—those being Celeste and Hollow Knight. Its various puzzle challenges that require you...
Total Chaos
Trigger Happy Interactive made a lot of fans with the hard-hitting sci-fi first-person shooter Turbo Overkill in 2023, but fast-paced sci-fi FPS isn't the only thing the developer has been up to. Total Chaos is a game that was first conceived as a Doom 2 total conversion mod. It has...
Kirby Air Riders
More than 20 years after Kirby Air Ride zoomed onto the Nintendo GameCube, the cult classic racing game has gotten a sequel. This time around, Kirby is joined by a plethora of allies and foes for an over-the-top racing experience. Kirby Air Riders takes everything that made the original game...
Demonschool
Namako explodes into a fountain of blood for what feels like the eighth time, and I open the menu and select Restart Battle. I’m fighting a giant skull and a pair of hands that looks like what I imagine Ocarina of Time’s Bongo Bongo would be if he were a...