Killer Klowns from Outer Space: The Game is sure to entertain you, especially if you play with friends, but the title doesn't innovate enough to stand out in the genre. With familiar mechanics and interesting gameplay, it offers an enjoyable experience, but no great surprises. If you're a fan of asymmetrical horror, it's worth a look, but don't expect anything revolutionary.

The old school style of Skald: Against the Black Priory is a tribute to classic RPGs. The game's narrative shines through and its retro design will trigger nostalgia. However, this lovecraftian darkness adventure may not be for everyone and I wonder to what extent it is just a look into the past while failing to deliver something special for players.

A GameCube classic, the remake of Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door manages to be even more fun and colorful than the original. While remaining faithful to the 2004 title, the remake adds improvements that will help you in battles and throughout your journey, such as the Companion Ring. However, the game lacks localization for PT-BR and the absence of a fast travel system.

Hellblade 2 is an immersive experience complete with impeccable audio design. Although it won't be to every gamer's taste, it definitely offers a deep narrative and unique gameplay that will captivate those looking for something more immersive and psychologically intense.

1000xRESIST is a triumph as the debut game from an independent studio. Delivering an incredibly well-tied and provocative narrative, stunning scenery and equally stunning dialogues, sequences exploring different perspectives and using close to the maximum of what a game can offer as a medium, the sunset visitor studio leaves its mark on the games industry, daring to address, discuss and expose themes that we would hardly see in AAA productions.

Endless Ocean Luminous sells itself as an immense blue expanse, but its developers seem to have forgotten to create enough content to broaden the player's interest in returning to repetitive scenarios with fish that look more like robots than the game's artificial intelligence. The tedious experience is made worse as you progress through the basic story, which doesn't justify the large number of hours spent scanning an exaggerated number of marine animals.

Sand Land is a game that pays homage to Akira Toriyama's original work, with a living world that brings much of the atmosphere of the manga published in 2000. The good story and charismatic characters make the campaign a lot of fun most of the time, but the repetitiveness of the enemies and the shallow combat prevent the title developed by ILCA from soaring higher. For an open-world RPG that can exceed 40 hours between the main story and side quests, Sand Land still entertains, but it would certainly be a better game if it featured more variety of strategies in hand-to-hand combat or on board the various vehicles you unlock during the campaign.

Mullet MadJack is a crazy, frenetic mix of different genres and media: there's the 80s action hero, there's the art of classic anime, cyberpunk aesthetics, roguelike elements and, of course, FPS. In all this, there's still time for good humor and an incredible gameplay that brings it all together in an excellent game. It's challenging, thought-provoking and a great job by Hammer95.

Stellar Blade delivers a great narrative that, despite not being deep or emotional, is quite competent and drives a rich gameplay. The main highlight goes to the combat, which is fun and challenging in the perfect dose, offering the player terrifying confrontations, especially in boss battles, which are a beast of their own combined with the music and all the set pieces that make them up. The game's only flaw is the sexualization of EVE, who doesn't need it to be an incredible and strong protagonist.

In a completely different way from what we're used to, Tales of Kenzera: Zau tackles the ups and downs of the grieving process through an exciting, colorful and charismatic adventure. With a fun combat system that becomes increasingly challenging throughout the campaign, the game meets expectations with rich world-building and satisfying exploration.

Saviorless is a great indie game with an abstract story that captivates you from start to finish, but it has a confusing and rushed ending, which is improved by the other endings available in its plot. In terms of gameplay, the game shines with platforming challenges that offer just the right amount of difficulty and will test your skills, especially during boss battles. The game is a pleasant surprise from a market that is just starting out in the electronic games industry and has everything it needs to grow.

With great fights and an extremely refined pawn system, Dragon's Dogma is a great game, but it would be even better if it had a more varied world in terms of exploration and setting, less draggy progression and better-written plot and characters. The game maintains much of the basis of its predecessor and improves on it in almost every aspect, but it doesn't quite reach the level of the best action RPGs released over the last 10 years, such as Elden Ring, The Witcher 3, Bloodborne and Dragon Age Inquisition.

Princess Peach: Showtime! is an experience that will hook you with its magical visuals, but only the first time. The game, which mixes several genres, has slow stages that don't offer much replayability and few extra challenges, making it stand out as a unique adventure in which Peach navigates the most varied nostalgic memories of our childhood.

With great combat, Rise of the Ronin falters trying to be bigger than it should, which ends up taking the focus away from its positives and distracting us with a series of things that don't really matter.

Alone in the Dark leaves a lot to be desired compared to other survival horror games, but it manages to deliver a somewhat competent experience. The game doesn't really shine in any aspect, but has small positives and is a good return for a franchise that needed a restart to position itself among the genre it created many years ago. Alone in the Dark is not dead, and if it manages to fix mistakes it can have a bright future ahead.

Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth is everything the long time fans of the franchise were yearning for but didn't get for a long time. The story will be relived and retold, but now there's uncertainty about the fate of each character. Every expectation was met with surprise and reward in a game that is not perfect, but is a true masterpiece of a genre that became popular exactly because of the long running Square Enix franchise.

Pacific Drive is a meticulous game that asks the player to perform a lot of tasks to deal with its many exploration, survival, crafting and customization systems. Offering a rich universe filled with questions and kind of a macabre awe that is definitely unique among many survival games that end up bringing the same chassis with a different skin, the Ironwood Studio game is a gem.

Tekken 8 is a game that arrived to establish a new quality standard for fighting games, just like Street Fighter 6 did before. With spectacular, agile and fluid gameplay, a good story mode and excellent online component, the newest game from Bandai Namco is a technical achievement that fixes almost all the problems the franchise had without losing its essence. If Tekken 3 is stil the biggest and most important 3D fighting game of all time, Tekken 8 is the best and most complete 3D fighting game ever made, and it should keep this title for many years.

The most ambitious game in the franchise's history, Like A Dragon: Infinite Wealth has the charisma of its characters and the mix of drama and comedy in the most bizarre situations as its biggest strengths. The turn based combat is an evolution from Yakuza: Like A Dragon, but it still isn't close to the best action adventure games of the series. The open world is full of activities, but some of them aren't inspired and just bloat the game at some points. Infinite Wealth is not the best of the franchise, but will definitely leave veterans emotional.

Persona 3 Reload is a masterclass in remakes and it makes you feel like you're playing it for the first time. It substitutes the original, offering a complete RPG experience. You're not missing out on anything.

Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown manages to deliver a balanced experience and to always bring something interesting to do, being a metroidvania game full of rhythm, almost flawless. The story is captivating and the flow of the campaign is very organic. The gameplay is perfectly smooth and refined. 2024 begins with a bang.

Star Ocean: Second Story R comes as a remake that tries to revitalize the player's love for the franchise, bringing an art style that mixes new and old elements without losing its charm. Even if basic, the story has the usual beats of classic JRPGs and can keep you entertained with its characters of varying personalities. The combat is fast and visually appealing, but can be too easy and not too rewarding. The extra content can net you a few more hours of gameplay making the remake worth for the replay factor and the new novelties of UI and mechanics.

Granblue Fantasy Versus: Rising is a fun and fluid fighting game, but can be generic in a lot of areas. The gameplay is definitely solid, but the story leaves to be desired and the game doesn't do a good job of introducing you to its characters.

Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora has its story as a strong point, but can drag a bit, especially in the beginning. It's a game to enjoy slowly and explore everything the immersion can offer you.

By being exactly the same as the original, it's inevitable that the new Super Mario RPG is a good game, but it doesn't bring any new novelties that justifies its full price. The revised graphics are the only big draw. With very few changes in combat and narrative deviations that barely impact the story that we already knew, the game is more a remaster than a proper remake. The new Super Mario RPG is a good entry for newcomers that did not play the original.

Persona 5 Tactica is a strategy game that will please fans of the franchise, but will not impress more than Strikers. It's a fine experience with the Phantom Thieves in a new story that drags for a while, but has its funny moments if you're fan of Atlus's RPGs.

Like A Dragon Gaiden: The Man Who Erased His Name is a reminder as to why Kazuma Kiryu will always be the biggest name in the franchise. The return to action adventure provides the best combat the series has seen and the story shows a Kiryu that regardless of the trials and tribulations he's been through, remains true to his ideals. The game is obligatory to any fan, even if it doesn't bring many innovations and a gameplay structure that is more of the same.

Alan Wake 2 is a complex, exciting and thrilling journey through the world of horror. The narrative is extremely well constructed and plays with metalanguage in an impressive way. The gameplay enjoys a solid and consolidated base within the survival horror genre that is expanded thanks to the characters' mental locations. Full of horrifying, shocking moments and hair-raising twists, the game presents one of the best plots ever created in games. Unfortunately, bugs overshadow the maximum potential of the title, but Remedy Entertainment's work is a true masterpiece of gaming and is enough to fight for the GOTY (Game of the Year award) of 2023. It took 22 years for a game to finally threaten the position Silent Hill 2 (2001) as the best survival horror in history, and Remedy's game can look to Konami's timeless classic on an equal footing in this dispute.