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For Honor takes some risks and creates a new property that I’d love to see more of in the future. Unfortunately, there is this impression that perhaps Ubisoft was not entirely confident in this first outing. The online modes are fun enough, but they can get grindy and their lack...
I don’t think the final outcomes are entirely random – a well-paired match has more chance of a good result than a poorly-paired one – but there’s definitely that element of random fate that’s out of your control. That may make the whole game seem pointless, but if anything, it...
Sniper Elite 4 focuses on a handful of things that it does very well, and the overall experience is one that I enjoyed. This is a more thoughtful, slower burning pace than the typical shooter, though it is punctuated by moments of intense action that stand out more because they...
These annoyances are worth putting up with, because Divide is a really good game when it’s playing to its strengths. It takes a familiar, played-out sci-fi story and uses mechanics and interactivity to give it a fresh, insightful spin. It’s not as nuanced a take as this sort of story...
What’s really hard to shake about Berserk is the feeling that Koei applied the wrong template to it. With the Nioh engine now having proven itself, I would rather Koei had held onto the IP a little longer and married Berserk’s dark narrative to Nioh’s gameplay structure. That’s a more...
To get to that point, for a Horizon 2 (one assumes this game will sell well enough to validate a sequel), the team at Guerrilla need to be bolder. The creative team needs to find writers willing to back up the narrative context with a story that has meat, and...
On a whole, Digimon World: Next Order isn’t a bad experience. It does take some time in order to get used to the flow of the game, and to deal with its irritations, but once you’re there, you’re in for what might potentially be a very addictive grind indeed.
Halo Wars 2 managed to drag me in kicking and screaming, and left me coming out more intrigued about the Halo universe itself. I have never been an aficionado of the Haloverse, nor have I ever been interested in it before. Halo Wars 2 may just change that. The campaign...
It does seem as though Arc System Works were relying entirely on the nostalgia to sell Double Dragon IV. And while it captures the essence of those original games it falls short of being a good game today simply because the original hasn’t aged well. It would have been pretty...
The frustrating part is that it seems entirely pointless, other than to make Uncanny Valley feel more like a “game”. The different story branches all depend on your actions in that first half; the survival horror stuff is just an unnecessary obstacle to seeing that story through. If the developers...
That is, of course, a tiny, insignificant criticism in what has become one of my favourite action RPG ever made. Boy, is 2017 off to a good start.
You don’t come to the Dragon Quest series because you want weighty, intelligent plots. You’ve got Persona for that. You don’t come to Dragon Quest because you want in-depth and rewarding combat mechanics; that’s a space where Final Fantasy plays. What makes Dragon Quest so special is that each game...
