Though there’s substantially less content and replayability than its primary contemporary, Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds is concise and effective in its mission, offering the most well-rounded kart racer of the year.
Though there’s substantially less content and replayability than its primary contemporary, Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds is concise and effective in its mission, offering the most well-rounded kart racer of the year.
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.
Mario Party 9 has changed a few things to make the luck-of-the-draw
experience more tolerable, but winning a coin flip is still about the
same as winning a game of Mario Party.
After I finished the
game, I had raced across America, escaped the mob, and cheated death
numerous times, but was left with relatively few postcards to remember
the experience by.
After I finished the
game, I had raced across America, escaped the mob, and cheated death
numerous times, but was left with relatively few postcards to remember
the experience by.
The core elements of multiplayer and the campaign remain fundamentally
unchanged, but the game serves as a great example of how many subtle
tweaks can add up to an improved overall product.
