Edwin Evans-Thirlwell
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Live A Live
While component tales and battles can be hit-and-miss, this elderly Squaresoft anthology is a wonderful testament to its genre's flexibility and range.
Kaiju Wars
A deceptively goofy asymmetrical tactics game that feels as grand as any monster movie.
A serviceable restoration of one of the best and strangest games in Squaresoft's back catalogue.
A unique but limited vision of evolution and apocalypse.
Not one of Platinum's best, but The Wonderful 101 wins you round via its writing, music and sense of joy.
Kine
I'm not sure there's grounds for it, but I want to read more into that discordance. Kine might organise itself like a musical composition, but it also keeps you at arm's length from the music. You're here to move the performers around, not strut your stuff. Perhaps the moral of...
Still, Origins handles its creative inheritance more elegantly than some open worlders, not least because unlike, say, the first game's Altair, its protagonist actually feels like he is of this realm rather than merely in it. And if the levelling and to-do list grate, the series has never offered a...
The Witness
There are mazes within mazes in The Witness, Jonathan Blow's triumphant return.
Nuclear Throne
The post-apocalypse has never seemed cuter, more frenzied or more essential than in Vlambeer's Nuclear Throne.
Mushroom 11
A genuinely original and a smart physics puzzler, but aggravating in places.
Beyond Eyes
Help a girl find her lost cat in this affecting study of blindness.
Come for the demon-bopping, stay for the eugenics.
