Pro Evolution Soccer 2017 Mobile is a good starting point for the future of the Konami series on mobile devices, thanks in particular to the new gesture controls.

We had to wait a little bit to see Warhammer: Vermintide 2 on PS4, but it was worth it. Fatshark's co-op action game is frantic and compelling as always thanks to many new enemies, huge maps with some interesting design choices and a solid progression.

Even if the third chapter didn't age well, The Yakuza Remastered Collection is still a great way to experience the Kazuma Kiryu saga after the prequel and the remakes.

An "interrogation simulator" with Blade Runner vibes. You should check it if you dream of electric sheeps too.

Labyrinth City Pierre the Maze Detective is beautiful like everything it does.

Ghost Song is a beautiful experience thanks to its environments and eerie ambience. There are some rough edges, but it's still a metroidvania that is worth a try, even in a market so filled with this kind of games.

Venba is a particular gaming experience, able to give voice to Tamil culture and, at the same time, to transmit a universal message. If you have had the luck to have a grandmother who has left you her notebook of recipes, at the end of the game you will run to take it in tears. Venba goes beyond the often rather narrow boundaries of the videogame medium, fully realizing the requests of those who would like space for more intimate and personal stories, also able to trace paths in places, cultures and themes usually not beaten.

Alisa is a PS1 era horror game made today with no compromises in its period correctness, for better or worse.

Sumerian Six is a good real-time tactical stealth adventure which deserves more love.

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Back to the Dawn is a prison RPG with great in-game time mechanics, a good story and a lot of replayability. Some of its narrative choices, however, are a little too stereotypical.

Star Fox 64 3DS is still a good game even today, but it's a game that shows its age far more than Ocarina of Time; if you already played the original or the Virtual Console version, probably this edition it's not worth the full price.

Darkest Dungeon II is definitely a good game, skillfully built upon the experience of the first installment. However, perhaps the comparison with the first game led the developers to go overboard, mixing in ambitions of a more traditional narrative role-playing game into the original formula. This ends up creating noticeable contrasts and lengthening the gameplay a bit too much, making it quite burdensome to start over from scratch each time.

Life is Strange 2: Episode 1 - Roads is the first episode of a series with a large inheritance on his shoulders: we can't wait to find out how the story will evolve.

It lacks novelty, but in the end nobody will care: the sixth episode in the Ace Attorney series is just as good as the others, and moreover shows an improved care for style and direction. It is incredible how this team always manages to write stories of amazing quality and to convey them in an excellent way. Another adorable gem in the visual novel genre.

Gran Turismo 6 is a nice evolution over the previous chapter, Polyphony has learned how to deal with the interface and has upgraded the physics and the handling of the cars. It's a pity that the series still lacks in the AI and collision departments, but the content is king and GT 6 has plenty of it.

Dragon Ball: Sparking was worth waiting all this time for! Zero, we have no doubts about it. The video game signed once again by Spike Chunsoft is perhaps not perfect on a visual level nor does it solve the well-known limitations of the arena fighter genre, but it optimizes and supports the system enough to ensure that the frenetic and spectacular fights between the many characters that make up the game's roster take place in a pleasant and satisfying way, in a triumph of fanservice that will not fail to excite the many Dragon Ball fans. The package is a real concentrate of content, also destined to grow thanks to the players (see the custom battles), and in this successful mix the excellent work done with the alternative stories of the Sparking Episodes stands out, capable of adding freshness and interest to a narrative path that we now know all too well.

Castle of Illusion has great graphics and an excellent soundtrack, but also a fairly standard gameplay and a just above average level design.

If you were expecting a pale remake of the original GoldenEye, you might be happy to know that Eurocome overdid itself by developing one of the most interesting games of this year. GoldenEye 007 is perfectly designed, overall refined and definitely fun to play, being the lengthy and deep campaign or the excellent multiplayer mode. It's also about James Bond, 'nuff said.

Hack and slash lovers shouldn't really miss this little XBLA gem. It's not perfect, but it's defenitely worth a look.

Smart, minimal, fast and engaging, Dungeon Encounters is a good old-school JRPG experience, with a hardcore soul that arises after some playtime. Maybe even too much hardcore.

A great combat system with extraordinary mechanical solidity, amazing aesthetics, and a brilliant and brutal difficulty management, make Sifu a must play for any action lover.

Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3+4 is an unbelievably satisfying game, one that looks to the players and their fun only. No walls to cross with money but just with skills. And if you don't want to build that skill you can just cheat, like many of us 2000s kids used to do, because it's fun and it's easy and it is permitted. Everything is permitted in this quirky game, like it was in their original matrix, but what use can it do other than make a memory of a child to burst into an adult's mind? It's a game that shows its age and that seeks a way of living in this world by grasping to a community that outgrew it. A bittersweet experience with that old relative that doesn't have a hold on to this world anymore.

Persona Q2 is more of the same but it's very good at it. With an ensemble cast of 20+ characters, some clever dungeons and a robust combat system, Persona Q2 is a beautiful farewell by Atlus.

Marathon is an extraction shooter for people who love team deathmatch, a mystery of moths and robotics you unravel match after match, a challenge for anyone who can make a mouse fly or dance across a controller. It’s a tightly sealed vault packed with secrets. But it’s also sterile, clinical, brutal, almost standoffish. It doesn’t try to grab your attention, but once you fall into it, you can’t stop thinking about it.

Catherine is an extraordinary remastered, which is wrong only with Rin: a strange and unbalanced character that risks ruining a perfect story.

Borderlands 3 is the best that Gearbox could do while maintaining the iconic gameplay without revolutionizing. Now we are waiting for the future of the series.

Stranded: Alien Dawn is an excellent survival game and one of Haemimont Games' best titles, demonstrating great competence and skill in managing such a complex game. Of course, there could have been more in terms of character customization and graphics style, but aside from that, it is an engaging experience that does not leave you regretting the time spent playing.