Despite its short length, for hardcore action aficionados, I feel there’s a lot to recommend Lithium City, a title that reminded me of the simpler days, back when action titles were less about the power fantasy, and more about limiting player options and forcing them to adapt to sets of carefully-crafted challenges.
Read MoreSome design choices and presentation choices in X-Morph: Defense could leave you on the fence with this one, as its charm will only kick in once you’ve experienced a few missions that leave you barely standing and wanting more.
Read MoreKentucky Route Zero sometimes feels like a choose-your-own-adventure title, except instead of choosing how the story progresses, you choose how the characters internalize the story, environment, and their interactions, which sounds restrictive in theory, but in practice makes the whole experience both fresh and infinitely more satisfying.
Read MoreThe Last of Us: Part II is a game that may challenge your moral compass. I can foresee that this will be talked about by players for weeks, even months, making it a rare experience worth soldiering through.
Read MoreLegends of Runeterra is a quick and satisfying online card game that has the potential to be among the best titles in its genre. Riot Games has had a good start to their new experiment, but the success of these mobile games are based on how Riot will support them with new cards and balance changes, both to keep the competitive circle in check, and to keep things fun for the community.
Read MoreIn the end, when the world of Remake is so painstakingly realized, the combat so immersive, the characters this fully brought to life, I found it difficult to remain steadfast in my apathy towards its source material. Even as the game reaches its heart-stopping conclusion, hinting at not just a greater villain to confront, but a saga on the verge of sweeping you away, Remake feels complete.
Read MoreNioh 2 is chock full of features that are designed to encourage you to be creative and personalize your whole gameplay experience. I guess the only hurdle for players new to the franchise is Nioh 2's very steep difficulty and learning curve. But if you can tough it out and get past that, this is a game you may even see yourself revisiting time and again.
Read More2020’s Resident Evil 3 is an action-packed spectacle that looks and feels great, but it can’t cover up the contrived nature of the encounters with Nemesis. The absence of some of the locations and plot beats of the original only shortens a narrative that’s already criminal in its brevity.
Read MoreBrawlout just doesn't do any particular thing well enough to make it stand out, and the performance issues can hit levels of infuriating at times. I'm looking at you, long load times.
Read MoreValthirian Arc: Hero School Story’s great conceptual foundation alone did not translate to a strong enough incentive to keep me playing. For me, this is a pass, but only barely, since I’m comparing it with the newer, better games coming out.
Read MoreThe expansion isn’t the best piece of content but the overall changes that came with the launch of The Division 2: Warlords of New York expansion makes it a great addition to keep avid players geared up and ready for the coming content planned for the game in 2020.
Read MoreRed Kite Studios has done a splendid job mapping out the controls for the PS4 version of Two Point Hospital. Coming from a PC’s mouse and keyboard to the PS4 Controller, I expected to feel my control over the situation limited, but those fears were groundless as the clever control scheme didn’t leave me feeling encumbered or hampered.
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