Hollow Knight: Silksong is beautiful, nuanced, and deeply rewarding, but it's also tuned to be grueling in ways that aren't always fun in the traditional sense.
Hollow Knight: Silksong is beautiful, nuanced, and deeply rewarding, but it's also tuned to be grueling in ways that aren't always fun in the traditional sense.
Though its narrative and level design sometimes get in the way, the entire package is still a setpiece-filled action romp and one of the year's best shooters.
Its adorable aesthetic and wordless storytelling make this brief adventure one worth sharing with family or a friend, but its distant camera angle and visual filters were frustrating obstacles on an otherwise picturesque road.
Though many of the series’ core elements remain intact, Gearbox has refined and reconfigured them in such ways that Borderlands 4 rises beyond anything the series has accomplished to this point.
Hell is Us isn’t perfect, but it’s a bold and respectable debut that largely delivers on its puzzle-solving promise, despite middling combat and uneven storytelling.
In its best moments, Obduction recaptures the wonder and nostalgic thrill of Myst and Riven. In its worst, it reminds us why adventure gaming was effectively dead for a decade.
Poly Bridge is more of a builder’s toolbox than a traditional game. Overcoming these engineering challenges is rewarding, but reaching the solution takes a lot of work.
Perhaps we’ve just been spoiled on the PC RPG front as of late, but the clichéd campaign and dungeon-creation toolbox fail to leave a noteworthy impression.
The Vault Of The Traveler delivers on its predecessor's promise with a steady pace and deft execution that hasn't always been present in the rest of the series.
