The Darkest Tales is a pleasant title but one that doesn't find the courage to experiment with something new in classic game mechanics. The plot and the settings, however, manage to emerge positively.

The Last Oricru starts from some good ideas but unfortunately poorly developed or not fully developed. Almost everything is to be reviewed, from the narrative choises and characterization to the combat system, bad most of the time. Hopefully, these criticisms will lead to a more refined second job.

The Divine Force isn’t one of the worst chapters in this long-running JRPG franchise, but it fails to bring the series to a new generation. Despite the good efforts made to revamp the combat system and give more freedom to the players, the game feels like a JRPG of ten years ago.

The Winter's story comes to an end in this first (and last) DLC for Resident Evil Village, which includes the highly-demanded third person view and a bunch of new contents for Mercenaries mode. It is worth your money if you are planning to play the entire game again and you're a die-hard fan of secondary challenges.

Batora: Lost Haven is a story driven action / RPG characterized by a very good combat system and a solid flow. The first original IP from Stormind Games is flawed only in terms of the impact of the system of choices, which is less profound than the game suggests. However, we are in the presence of a fun and replayable production.

With Gotham Knights WB Games Montreal delivers a pretty decent and enjoyable action game with structural and balance issues that result in a mere distant echo of Rocksteady's Arkham series.

New Tales from The Borderlands follows the step of its predecessor, with a well written story and a cast of protagonists that will entertain you for hours. The cell shading style and the filmmaker direction make the whole package well worthy of your time.

Illfonic delivers another asymmetric multiplayer game based on a famous franchise with great but unexpressed potential, just like Predator: Hunting Ground and Friday The 13th: The Game. Ghostbusters: Spirits Unleashed desperately needs new maps and modes to attract a bigger audience and be the game it was meant to be.

A Plague Tale: Requiem is an exciting and moving journey into the relationship between Amicia and Hugo. Unfortunately, the gameplay is too guided sometime breaking the suspension of disbelief.

Despite a troubled development, Scorn managed to evolve over the years, to reach a visual and aesthetic power hardly achieved by other video games, including AAA. Unfortunately, the gameplay core is anachronistic and makes the gaming experience unsatisfactory, at times even frustrating... certainly light-years behind the artistic aspects of the title.

Bricktales is a slightly different game from the previous LEGO titles, that puts “construction” and “creativity” right in the center of the experience. Not a masterpiece but definitely an enjoyable one.

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Bub and Bob embark in a new adventure, this time in 3D... and VR! Puzzle Bobble 3D: Vacation Odyssey is a decent puzzle game despite some annoying technical problems, surprisingly better in virtual reality than standard mode.

Valkyrie Elysium is an honest game, but victim of very evident production limits, which combined with the general result cannot justify the payment at full price. Despite being able to offer an interesting combat system, the game is characterized by a very mild progression and a structure that is all too simple, although solid.

One step back for the gorgeous Nier Automata on the Nintendo Switch . The game is still entertaining but the equation 720p/1080p + 30fps doesn't give the best result. The “portability factor” adds something, but not enough to convince those who already played the game on other platforms.

The DioField Chronicle is a game of missed opportunities. A series of cliché gameplay, only improved by an enjoyable semi-real time combat system, that is both choreographic and engaging. The flat character depiction, and the forgettable story sadly come as added baggage to a promising title that could have been much more.

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Serial Cleaners abandons the arcade style of the first chapter to embrace a more dense narrative, but without really updating the gameplay the result is not up to par.

Despite a new graphic style and a slightly better combat scheme, Lovecraft’s Untold Stories 2 delivers the same experience of previous game: good narrative and decent gameplay... but fans of Lovecraft needs something more “peculiar” and terrifying.

No Place for Bravery is a promising gory action soulslike with Sekiro-esque combats and some pretty good chunks of gameplay but also balancing issues and some annoying bugs.

Ooblets is a fun and very relaxing game, but all the frame drops and repetitiveness at times do not fully enhance it.

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NBA 2K23 is still the best NBA game on the market, only because there are no competitors. There are new fun game modes like Jordan Challange but the online component of all the game modes once again relies too much on micro-transaction. Being competitive as a no money spent player is too much time consuming, and worse than last year. Gameplay wise, there are some improvements but some ancient problems remain, like choppy shooting system and an AI that cannot defend against 5-out.

The Phoenix Edition brings some balance to the troubled The Tomorrow Children. Now you can play offline in the new single-player mode and have a little bit of help during the hard work... but after six years most of the structural issues of the original game are still there!

SD Gundam Battle Alliance is an action RPG crammed with nostalgia and fanservice that will not disappoint hardcore fans of the saga, despite some imperfections in pacing and structure.

SBK 22 is the great return of Milestone in this category, with a good game in its structure and a driving model that distinguishes it from what has been seen in MotoGP. However, it is necessary to find a greater personality and above all, a greater variety in the contents.

Circus Electrique is like a juggling show not perfectly balanced. The narrative idea works fine and the Tactical RPG/Management mechanics are all in the right places but some gameplay elements slow down the pace and the entertainment factor.

Addressed to the fans of Hiroiko Araki's manga, JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: All-Star Battle R is marked by strengths and weaknesses of the title dated 2014, only proposing small adjustments certainly not able to change the original judgment. Featuring simple and spectacular gameplay, CyberConnect2’s game still lacks today in terms of cleanliness and balancing of the experience, due to some very imprecise hitboxes and a not well balanced roster.

Steelrising is not the best soulslike on the market, but with its attractive design and many original ideas (unfortunately not all of them are implemented effectively) it turned out to be a fun and well-made game. Undoubtedly, the best title developed by Spiders.

Voyage is a fascinating cooperative exploration game with gorgeous hand-painted graphic, basic gameplay and intuitive mechanics. It will last just two hours but will stay longer in your heart.

A charming metroidvania action-adventure with hand-drawn fantasy settings and an interesting cast of characters. The experience is perfectible due to some unbalanced boss fights and (too) tight-timing platform sections.

Prinny Presents NIS Classics Volume 3 includes 2 RPG classics (Rhapsody: A Musical Adventure and La Pucelle: Ragnarok), reissuing them with minor technical improvements and leaving their strengths and weaknesses mainly untouched.

Destroy All Humans! 2 - Reprobed was fun, irreverent and explosive, and with this remake it’s even larger than before. There are some technical problems to solve and unfortunately the missions are too similar to the past, still it’s quite enjoyable.

Hindsight tries to tell a very deep story full of thoughts on the past and the future. Unfortunately the gameplay is too minimalist and the short duration fails to enhance its merits.

PAC-MAN WORLD Re-PAC marks the pleasant and successful return of the title dated 1999, which will entertain both new and old fans. A pleasant and solid remake of a little classic, whose structure should look too simple if compared to modern games, but that’s always fun is played today.

The Saints Row reboot attempts to reimagine the Saints' origins by transplanting them to a new, beautiful city. The problem is that the characters are uninteresting, the gameplay lacks originality or polish and technically the game sometimes shows debilitating bugs.

Kirby’s Dream Buffet is fun and colorful, and how could you not love Kirby? Unfortunately, contents are very few and the launch price (in a genre ruled by a free game) could make you not appreciate this delicious product.

Soul Hackers 2 is a game that tries to make everyone happy, keeping a classic soul but rejuvenating the genre with gameplay elements from Persona 5. Fans of the genre will probably appreciate it, but the lack of courage to create something iconic could doom Soul Hackers 2 to be remembered "only" as a good derivative game and little else. Only time will give us the answer.

Cursed to Golf has managed to transform a quiet sport into a real hellish experience, thanks to the mixture of classic rules with some subtle roguelite mechanics. Surely original and well packaged, the game is as simple to metabolize as it is difficult to complete, due to a difficulty that is not always well balanced at times.

An entertaining and lightning fast (but really short) experience that mixes FPS and Mirror's Edgesque parkour in a simil-VR voxel context. Too bad for the lack of level editor on console and sub-par bullet-time mechanics.

Thymesia is an interesting action-RPG with good ideas. Unfortunately not all of them are developed properly. As the first game of Overborder Studio, it turns out to be a good debut, hoping that this experience will serve to smooth out all the edges on the narrative and game balance in the future.

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Bright Memory: Infinite is a fast-paced game supported by various and well-built mechanics, but which pays off for being really too short. That’s why the various sections end up running out too quickly, leaving the player with the feeling of having played a simple prologue of a more substantial adventure.

Another bunch of good-old games from Capcom. Most of the 32 titles included in this 2nd Stadium have already been published in other collections so think about it only if you're an hardcore fan of the “Big C”... or purchase the preferred ones as single purchases.

Stray is a heartfelt, passionate and fascinating game that, sadly, suffers from oversimplification in terms of gameplay. The exceptional art direction and pleasant plot, however, make it advisable for anyone looking for a single player game with an absolutely magnetic imagery.

As Dusk Falls is an eventful and characterful adventure with many stories to tell. Unfortunately, too many stories create confusion and some stories remain without a real ending. A shame for a title with a unique and well-made aesthetic.

PowerWash Simulator is an oddly satisfying and relaxing experience in the short period but FuturLab needs to add new levels and modes in the future to keep up its niche audience.

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F1 2022 unfortunately does not fully convince, limiting itself to few innovations and even fewer improvements. This saga looks tired, and this episode could not be appealing to fans waiting for a title worthy of the franchise.

Starship Troopers Terran Command fits nicely in the ever growing RTS family. It does what is supposed to do, without daring too much. The franchise based on the namesake movie is respected perfectly and fans will be happy.

Diablo debuts on mobile phones and tablets retaining its core gameplay and DNA, while paving the way to a huge microtransaction system. While it’s absolutely possible to enjoy the game without spending a cent, the system keeps tempting the player to spend money with the promise to become stronger and to obtain better loot. The signature gameplay is still there, but it’s difficult to shine on PvP without spending money.

Hardspace: Shipbreaker has a great gameplay and narrative depth. Despite the great variety available, it soon becomes repetitive, leaving the player less involved as at the beginning.

An intriguing live-action mystery drama with solid narrative and some clever supernatural twist, flawed by some poor staging choices and tight gameplay mechanics.

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Card Shark is an original concept and an intriguing demonstration of how the art of deception can be used to uncover the truth hidden in the upper middle class. Unfortunately, some technical problems have compromise the general experience of the game.

SILT delivers a very captivating artistic design, recreating atmospheres so gloomy that generate a strong feeling of melancholy in the player. Unfortunately the limited gameplay and some uncertainties limit the final result.

The return of Kao the Kangaroo offers a decently enjoyable action-platform experience with nostalgic graphics and soundtrack, unfortunately flawed by several bugs, glitches and a difficulty level too low for experienced platformers.

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Pac-Man Museum+ Is a generous collection dedicated to Namco Bandai’s iconic mascot, but is quite redundant if compared to the similar operation released just few years ago. The main issue is many of the games included are not so unforgettable if played today.

A survival game with narrative and roguelike elements that will not disappoint former fans of the Out There saga, despite being hard to digest for newbies.

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A post-apocalyptic-zombie-virus survival game with some original and clever gameplay mechanics, unfortunately not fully developed. Needs some technical polish to become a little gem.

We don't question the passion and goodwill of the developers, but perhaps, being Dolmen their first game, it would have been better for them to slow down and lay lower, aiming for a less ambitious project.

Eternal threads is an apparently simple but extremely complex title, given the intricate number of timelines to be modified in order to achieve the goal. The idea behind it is interesting, as well as some narrative implications, but as a first work it has several corners to smooth out.

Vampire: The Masquerade - Swansong succeeds in making us feel in front of a board game, bringing all the mysteries, conspiracies and atmospheres of the World of Darkness. Unfortunately, the graphics slow down the enthusiasm, like a script that very often is not particularly exciting.

An action JRPG prequel to Eiyuden Chronicle: Hundred Heroes, introducing its world and characters despite a lack of a solid narrative structure and challenging quests.

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We Were Here Forever is a crazy co-op game that every lover of the genre might adore. However, the game suffers from some imbalances…

Salt and Sacrifice is a rough gem, which successfully hybridized different videogame genres, creating a captivating setting and fun gameplay, both alone and with other players.

Another growth and revenge story set in ancient Japan, with gorgeous B&W visuals and cinematic slasher gameplay, flawed by input-lag issues and minor balancing issues.

An old-school action platformer that sends us back to the Neo Geo era but fails to give the same amount of shivers down the spine due to some balance and design issues.

Crimesight is an interesting Mystery Simulation game where you can’t trust anyone. Its formula is very promising, but a post-launch support could improve its game modes more.

The Serpent Rogue, like every first work, is full of edges to be smoothed but the basic concepts are interesting. The Warden's journey is full of difficulties, unfortunately often due to structural deficiencies. In any case, the Kiev-based team deserves the warmest compliments for finishing development in a dire situation.

Teardown is a fun and creative game in a fully destructible voxel world.

Trivial Pursuit Live! 2 brings the classic board game to current and last-gen platforms trying to adapt it to digital universe through online gaming, achievements, character customization and Twitch integration. Despite some of these features are cool, the game falls short in offering only 4 local players support; most of all, it lacks of the Italian localization. If these omissions are not an issue, you could have loads of fun with your family or friends and followers online.

Gorgeous visuals and a great soundtrack are strong weapons in this one, but everything else is below expectations.

Distant Worlds 2 is following its predecessor’s footsteps providing us a vast and enormous 4X space sim, with more options and customization than ever. The inclusion of the ship editor is very good and adds depth (if it ever needed more) to a title that can and will be daunting for many. The inclusion of an option to delegate major parts of the gameplay to the AI is refreshing but is too tempting, and could reduce the entire game to a click simulator where all we do is to accept the AI suggestions.

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A Memoir Blue is an emotional and interesting journey that explains the relationship between mother and daughter.

Forgive Me Father feels like a missed opportunity to bring an inspired lovecraftian horror style in a great retro FPS. The game offers a good art direction and some good moments, but its repetitive gameplay, linear design and light story elements prevent it from being a very good one.

Just like the previous chapter, The Cruel King and the Great Hero tells an enchanting story with a beautiful hand-drawn graphic style, but fails to bring an evolution to the repetitive and unbalanced gameplay.

Weird West is a mix of many ideas that unfortunately are not properly explored. This reinterpretation of Western in a dark fantasy key is undoubtedly intriguing but, unfortunately, fails to blend in all its mechanics.

It was very difficult to translate all of the systems of Crusader Kings 3 for console play and Paradox has done its best, but many UX choices are inexplicable and this port will not help newcomers to approach this great strategy game.

What Lies in the Multiverse is an inspired dark-comedic adventure with some clever and challenging dimension-shifting puzzles. Too bad it doesn’t excel in longevity.

Phantom Breaker Omnia is a fighting game from ten years ago and you can see it in every part. Although narratively and technically not interesting, it has heart and originality. The gameplay, accessible to all and well layered, saves the game.

Crystar is a fun adventure with special moments full of emotion.

Shredders is a love letter to snowboarding, full of desire to entertain... but fails to excite because of some balancing issues and lack of content.

Long time fans of the series will feel at home with Rune Factory 5. It’s a well developed farming sim with lot of things to do and some well crafted jrpg elements. An intriguing story will let you meet some interesting characters, and even marry one of them. The problem is that the game is marred by some nasty technical issues that in some sens ruin overall experience. Low frame-rates, hitches, lags and stuttering are very frequent and some textures are rendered at very low quality. If you love these kind of games maybe you can overlook these issues, but we feel the game lacks the polish we saw in the previous entries of the series.

Babylon’s Fall is a free-to-play action sold at premium price, devoid of any quality and technically dated.