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.
When each Sims installment only offers a slightly different flavor of the
same gameplay, they all start to blend together. Despite the problems
with The Sims Medieval, at least it isn’t more of the same.
Episode 3 of Telltale’s Back to the Future adventure series turns
Hill Valley on its head, and shows that one man’s vision for utopia can
be everyone else’s nightmare.
Even with so much of the gameplay clinging to the formula Traveller’s Tales created for its first LEGO game, The Clone Wars offers a vastly different experience that captures the best of both of the LEGO and Star Wars licenses.
Torchlight makes the transition to Xbox Live Arcade almost entirely
intact. I'll still be playing on PC, but I wouldn't point anyone away
from this edition of a great game.
The changed vision for the Dragon Age franchise may disappoint hardcore fans of the original, but this sequel still delivers – though not in the ways you’d expect.
