Josh Wise
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There just isn’t enough juice in the combat, the cover shooting, or the endless hoovering of collectibles.
Norco
What saves Norco is that the visions on offer belong as much to the imagined as the troublingly real.
Most potent of all, there is a strain of urban fear running through its design—not of monsters but of the city itself as an isolating entity, rendering you unreachable.
Polyphony has delivered an airtight flight from the everyday, rich in escape yet rooted in anything but fantasy.
If only Dalcò, rather than honouring his heroine by smothering her search for truth in confounding gloom, had abided by her love of illumination.
There are no other dynamics quite like it in games; they acquaint us with an array of miseries and charge us money for the privilege.
With Horizon Forbidden West, Guerilla is armed with the grunt of the PlayStation 5, and we get not just a catalogue of alluring tones but a richer palette of ideas.
Sifu
The coup of Sifu is that this process mirrors that of the hero; I was continually tempted to ditch my progress and start afresh, furnished with new knowledge at the expense of a little more life.
Whether OlliOlli World charms you or chafes at your patience will depend on your appetite for such whimsy.
Where Solar Ash goes from an intriguing ambient platformer to one of the year’s most fascinating releases is in its fixation on living as an act of being stuck.
With Halo Infinite, 343 Industries seems to want to break the cycle and start afresh. The irony is that it has done so by drawing closer to the past.
Where Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy proves most winsome, however, is in its twining of the intergalactic and the terrestrial.
