John Walker
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Just Cause 4
I'm just at a loss as to how this has happened. Just Causes have been buggy, sure. But they've never felt at least six months from finished. I cannot fathom how this wasn't lengthily delayed, because it's in such a dismal state. Although that said, even if the bugs and...
While I've not completed the game due to some technical issues before release, I've spent a good 20 hours with Shadow Of The Tomb Raider, and they really have been good. This works out as a great balance between the icon-ticking compulsion of a top tier Ubisoft game, with the...
PS. Because EA are just colossally stupid, this is currently only available on Origin. However, if you already own Burnout Paradise in there, there's an option to upgrade it to this new version for £4.50, which is an awful lot less than the full £18 a new copy will cost...
The Forest
Still, The Forest remains a huge achievement, and a survival horror game that somehow manages to keep those two elements surprisingly separate and yet let each impose upon the other in very interesting ways. I do wish it had been tidied and bug-fixed by now, but I can't stop wanting...
Minit
There's lots to it, even if it's not the longest game. So many puzzles, challenges, collectibles and details to discover, along with fun chatter and nifty ideas. Sections seem impossible, then suddenly so possible, super-quickly, and whenever you're stuck somewhere there's always another unexplored direction to head in, or a...
Fe
Fortunately for Fe's sake, it's receiving a cross-platform release, and hopefully will find its audience through PlayStation, Xbox and Switch. But the PC build will receive a fraction of the sales it deserves, at the hands of the hubris of its publisher.
Gorogoa
More than anything, the feeling that dominated throughout was one of magic. Its impossible logic made so much sense, its undimensional structure somehow coherent, so long as you allow yourself to float between the solving and the unsolving. It is that suspended place, between confusion and understanding, reality and impossibility,...
Tower 57
The result of a successful Kickstarter, and released the traditional year later than planned, Pixwerk's debut seems like a proper treat. And looking at the game's screenshots on Steam, my early exploration shows I've seen barely any of the environments and weapons/vehicles on offer here. At less than a tenner,...
I cannot fathom what Ghost are doing with the Need For Speed series. The introduction of smashable billboards (although not of course those with real-world advertising on them) seems like a hark back to the glory days of Criterion, but the repeated punch in the face that is the storyline...
Jydge
Which means it coyld also really do with a faster restart. A single key, instant restart woyld be ideal, rather than having to pyll yp the meny, click Restart, and then watch the needless three second intro each time. Patching that in, if possible, coyld make things mych zippier when...
Hob
Hob is like a beautiful example of how to make a third-person action game. Like a filmmaker who has learned every detail of cinematography, direction, lighting and set dressing, but never thought to care about the script. In that, I found it impossible to escape the sense of lack that...
Songbringer
I've not finished it, because curses those lizard men are tough, so I can't yet speak for length and conclusion, but the fact that I could just start a second game with a different seed and play it all through differently is enormously appealing. It's not the deepest game, but...