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.
With Ion Storm dead and celebrated creators Warren Spector and Harvey
Smith each in new stages of their careers, developer Eidos Montreal
faces the difficult task of bringing back one of gaming’s most
celebrated series.
Simple but polished gameplay is enhanced by an unforgettable tale, and Supergiant Games' debut emerges as one of Xbox Live Arcade's greatest adventures.
Lapsed players like me will have a grand time messing around with some
of the newer cards and mechanics, particularly in online play against
other humans.
