Despite fumbles with its new melee combat and difficulty balancing, Control Resonant's storytelling, world, and bizarre quests kept me eager to explore its distorted New York.
Simon Ordell’s journey through the Scottish town of St. Amelia in 1996 is not without its shortcomings, but the experience is an affecting one buoyed by the first-person perspective.
Building on the already-great remake of the first game, Trails in the Sky 2nd Chapter masterfully updates the gameplay and timeless story, adding up to what is now the Trails series’ defining entry, and one of the best RPGs of the year.
The conclusion of a trilogy presents the opportunity for an emotional farewell, but Lightning Returns only leaves you relieved to see the adventure end.
The conclusion of a trilogy presents the opportunity for an emotional farewell, but Lightning Returns only leaves you relieved to see the adventure end.
You shouldn't play Rekoil under any circumstance, but from the abundance of deserted maps I saw, it seems that most gamers have already received that memo.
Nidhogg doesn’t look like it belongs in the fighting genre, but it hits the same
competitive beats of a typical fighter, but from a different
direction and set of rules.
Risk of Rain
harkens back to an era when gamers had to play a game for several hours
before they really knew how it worked – a classic approach that can
still be fun.
Deadfall Adventures expands upon the lore of Quatermain, but tracing the genre back to its source material doesn't help this puzzle-infused shooter overcome its myriad, frustrating problems.