A touching homage to Benoît Sokal, Syberia: The World Before leaves the problems of the previous game behind and manages to bring us once again in the wonderful world designed by the Belgian author. It's not perfect in every part, but the whole experience is emotional and surprising: a worthy chapter in Kate Walker's saga.

Kirby and the Lost Land is one of the best games in Kirby's history. The renewal is limited, but everything works well and there is a desire to feel important and to live a "real" adventure that has rarely been found in the story of the pink hero.

Lacking in innovation and technical prowess, Rune Factory 5 compensates with a solid and faceted experience that could eat a good chunk of your spare time if you get entangled in its intricate web of different mechanics.

An abysmal drop in quality: nothing in this DLC is redeemable and the price that's asked for it way too steep. Stay away from it and replay the base campaign.

Ghostwire Tokyo is a peculiar and charismatic open world, with a rewarding combat system and a fascinating location to explore.

Distant Worlds 2 is a 4X for veterans of the genre, looking for a game to challenge all their management skills. CodeForce crafted a deep, complex strategy game, albeit one that doesn't concede anything to the modern age in terms of graphics and narrative.

Tunic manages to take something (obviously on a smaller scale) from Zelda, Dark Souls and Death's Door, resulting in a challenging and fascinating action-adventure even if it lacks any truly original ideas.

Persona 4 Arena Ultimax brings to modern gaming platforms all the content and updates wisely crafted by Arc System Works for Atlus' best fighting game yet. Unfortunately no new relevant features are included with this porting but at least the game has been freed from the shackles of old gen consoles.

Phantom Breaker: Omnia, while not affecting the greatest exponents of the fighting genre, represents a nice diversion.

Babylon's Fall does nothing to be, if not remarkable, memorable: at least not in a positive way.

It wasn't hard to do better than WWE 2K20, but 2K22 goes further: it's not flawless, but the new gameplay is quite enjoyable after absorbing the new control scheme.

Young Souls has a beat-em-up heart and an RPG brain. And, at the end of the day, when you jump into the fray, your heart commands. The action is compelling and has a good pace, and the self-irony that reigns in each text gives the game that extra something that helps it build its own identity.

Despite many good ideas, Aztech Forgotten Gods is a superficial experience lacking real courage, representing a step backwards for Lienzo. The story develops hastily, failing to describe each of the characters featured in the game's plot. The gameplay is too confusing, with not very incisive and unfortunately similar to each other, never really giving the feeling of diversification in the combat system and with unfortunately very similar bosses.

Voice of Cards: The Forsaken Maiden is a boardgame videogame with JRPG elements and a fascinating, touching story, featuring a multifaceted and enjoyable cast of characters. Keiichi Okabe's artistic direction and compositions are as always noteworthy, something that encourages to explore the game world by indulging in his symphonies. Net of this, however, there are few changes on the playful side, despite the fact that the game difficulty has been slightly raised compared to the predecessor without proposing something too demanding. Longevity is certainly a point in its favor, even if the side activities aren't as engaging as the rest of the main story is.

The Cruel King and The Great Hero could have been the right evolution of its predecessor, but for every step forward there's one back. It remains, however, a nice fairy tail to play with the youngest.

Ghostrunner returns with seven new levels and two bosses with the Project_Hel DLC. As Hel, we can revive the adrenaline of the game, made of katanas, special powers, walljumps and a constant desire to be more and more effective and precise in completing the levels. The experience is cleaner than in the base game, maintains a greater pace, offers more mobility and it's less frustrating. Remains a bit too much try & retry in some sections and the feeling that the game concept could expand in a braver manner as it already happens in Killrun mode, but the DLC is worth the ticket price, especially if you like to improve your times optimizing each path.

Excluding a technical side to be fixed and compositions that are never impacting and memorable, FAR: Changing Tides is an exciting and fun previous adventure game with intelligent and well-structured gameplay, representing an evolution of the chapter of the franchise in all its its playful components. In FAR: Changing Tides the story is full of significant moments for the character as well as for the player, and I prefer not to name some of them so as not to spoil the surprise for anyone interested in buying the game, coming soon on GamePass. The story, although silent and not very rich in information, is nevertheless pleasant, with serious themes within it that manage to capture different social nuances. A videogame of this kind represents a panacea for anyone who is trying to disconnect their mind and wants to experience a journey that is not only educational, but also personal.

Triangle Strategy is an intense and rewarding experience, perhaps not gritty, but incredibly solid and deep.

Chocobo GP recollects the legacy of Chocobo Racing, proving to be a solid and fun kart game with the undeniable added value given by being set in the Final Fantasy universe. With famous locations from different chapters of the series and iconic characters, anyone who loves the Japanese series will instantly feel at home. It isn't easy to find originality in a kart game, it's inevitable to learn from the masterpieces of the genre but Chocobo GP doesn't lack a personality of his own and this has to be noted. We are not saying that the yellow feathered bird has surpassed the mustachioed Italian plumber but those looking for an alternative after the years spent on Mario Kart 8 Deluxe will not be left disappointed, the only shame is the fact that there are just a few limited number of circuits available that we hope will be increased with the already announced post launch support.

A fun - if unoriginal - fantasy hack'n slash game both good for a single player experience and a multiplayer adventure- The free to play elements feel fair and the end game content is hard enough to pose as an interesting challenge.

Gran Turismo 7 brings the best experience on track of the series, in an episode who links together the past, the present and the future of the franchise. Despite some minor flaws in terms of AI and collisions, the balance between simulation and accessibility is simply perfect, and DualSense is incredible. In terms of content, career mode shines and let players discover the history of automotive with love and passion, while multiplayer and custom events will let live Gran Turismo 7 for long long time.

A fun take on Conan the Barbarian. Howard purists might do some strange gestures with their noses, but all the other will be having a blast chopping up monsters in Conan Chop Chop.

Elex II is not without its flaws and some of them can sometimes be quite jarring, but underneath them all is a nice action RPG that gets more than a few things right and that can provide many, many hours of entertainment.

Shadow Warrior 3 is a fast, spectacular and over-the-top arena shooter (with bland platforming sections) and, on this front, it works very well. Don't ask for anything more, though.

Elden Ring is an incredible game that takes the "soulslike" formula and declines it within a vast and dense world full of elements arranged with extreme care. It is a demanding experience, which requires the player's focus and a high desire to explore and experiment: it gives the best of itself when the player is ready to explore the huge Lands Between. Its world design has made the structures of the previous soulslike games obsolete. Simply a new milestone for its genre.

A honest JRPG with uninteresting plot, overlong battles and a technical achievement with ups and downs.

GRID Legends goes on the most arcade soul of Codemasters by focusing on quantity and fun. Driven to Glory, the story mode, is quite a disaster and the Career progression is a bit chaotic, but the game has so much content to offer to enjoy. Codemasters achieves to bring thrilling races on the screen and the idea to have the chance to play every single mode in multiplayer is a nice touch to strengthen the experience of a fun and compelling arcade racing game.

Martha is Dead is a complex first-person narrative adventure, a story of traumatic experiences that could upset the sensitivity of those who play. Anyway LKA depicted in a brilliant and compelling way the discomfort of the main character, even if sometimes narration lingers in the spectacularization of the most gory elements. The Italian studio did a great job creating an accurate historical stage, but technically the game has significant ups and dawns, which, anyway, don't undermine too much the overall experience.