We would really like to see the crew at Falcom get a bigger budget to give full speed to this world, this characters and this combat system. Trails into Reverie is a tremendously solid JRPG and a worthy follow up to the Erebonian tetralogy. Just beware: you need to have played some of the previous titles to really appreciate the story.

Master Detective Rain Code is not as complete and original like the Danganronpa trilogy, but it is, nonetheless, an enjoyable and well written point and click adventure that will appeal to all of the existing fans of Kazutaka Kodaka.

The Lara Croft Collection is a competent porting of the original titles, but it lacks any additional content that would've made this the definitive edition of these games.

AEW: Fight Forever is a good callback to some of the more arcade-styled wrestling games of the past, but it lacks much of the gameplay and content improvements added over the years by the same developers to their previous games.

Ghost Trick is both another brilliant little game from another era and another lazy remaster that doesn't add anything really new to it. It is still recommended to anyone who never played the original, yet it's a bit on the pricey and the short side.

Harmony: The Fall of Reverie is a visual novel with an unexpected depth, perhaps the Don't Nod's truly artistic videogame.

Crash Team Rumble's greatest achievement is also its greatest flaw: its own nature of a paid multiplayer game — without any single player content — forces fans to hope for a commercial success to have the right long term support.

We Love Katamari Reroll+ Royal Reverie is a competent remastered of an all-time classic that is as fun to play today as it was almost twenty years ago.

There are some technical issues yet to be solved in Park Beyond, but the game does a pretty decent job in giving you the control of your own theme park. Yet, the experience is very limited and can't fully deliver the vibe that creative players legitimately expected.

Spectacular, with an epic story and astonishing graphics: and yet, Final Fantasy XVI forgets what is really important for the series. It's impossibile to create a build and there's nothing important left for you to manage through the menus. Proper RPG options are gone, dungeons are just banal corridors, players are forced to play the entire game in easy mode and you can beat the game with literally no effort. There's a decent base for the future, but it's not enough to see a real rebirth for the saga.

Story of Seasons: A Wonderful Life brings one of the most beloved episodes of the franchise back to life, with new events and a revamped (albeit still old) presentation, but the lack of new features keeps this remake away from greatness.

Company of Heroes 3 Console Edition is a good way to enjoy a RTS experience with the controller. The latest Relic Entertainment video game shows several compromises, but the missions give a lot of fun.

Aliens Dark Descent is a good real time strategy game set in the Alien universe and equipped with some winning ideas that are hard to overlook, such as the feature of permanent death. It's not gonna become the next XCOM, but it's a pretty enjoyable RTS nonetheless.

Unfortunately, Daydream: Forgotten Sorrow is not a good tribute to some more classic games, like Limbo or Little Nightmares, and fails to deliver a memorable adventure, feeling way more frustrating than it should.

The beauty of the Japanese countryside and its folklore fails to save Loop8, a game that remains imprisoned in its own vicious circle. It feels like a JRPG with dating sim and roguelike elements, but lacks souls and personality, becoming yet another forgettable Persona clone on the market. And that's a real shame, because it looked really promising.

Fall of Porcupine is a 2D graphic adventure game designed to be an honest and direct critique of society and the healthcare system. The game provides wonderful food for thought to learn how to completely appreciate life despite difficulty, offering emotional scenarios and dialogues, as well as a wide variety of entertaining mini-games. An additional outstanding representation of a "wholesome" adventure that stands out for its wonderful aesthetic direction and its distinctive and captivating atmosphere.

Layers of Fear is not a new game, nor a remake. it seems like a sort of definitive edition that includes the old games of the series and a new section that ties the two stories together. The passage to Unreal Engine 5 and the mild gameplay tweaks are not so relevant and add nothing to the game experience.

F1 23 improves in many aspects even though it doesn't excel in others. The return of Braking Point is highly appreciated. We also appreciate the changes in the driving model, as well as the improvements on the controller and steering wheel side. The increased force feedback gives hope for future developments. We are a bit disappointed with the technical department, which could definitely do more, especially on the new consoles. We are certain that these limitations are a consequence of the game being released on previous-generation consoles as well. Unfortunately, it's a compromise almost necessary to satisfy a wider user base. All in all, though, we are facing a game that always manages to achieve a good final result.

Dordogne is a good-looking narrative adventure that tells and extraordinarily ordinary familiar story, making you wonder about of all the time we waste far from our beloved ones.

MotoGP 23 surely is full of possibilities and activities for gamers who love bikes, but something in the driving system needs further improvements and a better balance.

Torchlight: Infinite fails to capture the spirit of the original series, offering a dull, repetitive gameplay loop that will appeal to very few people.

Like the single games when they were first released, the Etrian Odyssey Origins Collection is not a product for the masses: it's pricey (too much so), hard and very lengthy, but these are exactly the reasons why some old timer fan will appreciate it.

Amnesia: The Bunker introduces a brilliant gameplay with many new features for the series. It is a real survival horror with a great atmosphere and a superb concept. Too bad for the random encounters with the creature, often not well balanced.

Puzzle Bobble Everybubble! takes the serie back to form after some lackluster episodes, bringing new gameplay elements to the table and adding an addicting 4 player mode.

An intriguing post-apocalyptic adventure, Miasma Chronicles is set in a fascinating world, populated by some weird characters. Its combats could be a challenge, with some good tactical ideas, but at the end there are not so many choices to avoid the game over.

Monster Menu: The Scavenger's Cookbook is a dull dungeon crawler which fails to fully deliver on its premise.

Shattered Heaven captivates the players thanks to its hybrid gameplay. It's a card game with roguelike and rpg elements that are enough to feel interesting, but it gets repetitive way too soon during longest playing sessions.

Decarnation is heavily inspired by Mulholland Drive and Satoshi Kon's works. It's a great psychological horror with a rich story, but also a derivative game with too many gameplay limitations.

Diablo IV is a smooth-running action RPG with a beautiful gothic atmosphere and a fascinating open world, aimed even at those who have never touched a chapter of the Blizzard franchise before.

Street Fighter 6 is simply one of the best fighting games ever made, with ton of contents and an incredibly fun gameplay.

Tin Hearts is an heartwarming experience that could've used a little bit more variety to aim at something more than being just a decent puzzle game.

Farming Simulator 23 has many options for arable and farming to discover everywhere. It is a good simulation game, but it comes with a lot of technical compromises and it's way more similar to its Nintendo Switch predecessor than we hoped.

System Shock Remake is a solid sci-fi first person shooter, although it does not go beyond the boundaries drawn by the first and immortal chapter, released in 1994.

The Lord of the Rings: Gollum was a bad idea on paper and is an even worse as a game now that we can play it, with a dull and boring plot and a gameplay formula that feels too old to be real in 2023.

LEGO 2K Drive is a good racing/open world, where imagination is the only limit. Too bad for a certain underlying monotony.

Compared to Arise: a Simple Story, After Us represents an evolution. Despite that, the game fails to accomplish its mission and remains a step back from the modern games standards.

Warhammer 40.000: Boltgun is a fast paced retro-shooter. It's fun and gory, but don't expect to find some kind of revolution.

God of Rock has a fairly interesting concept, plus cool visuals and character designs, but it still fails to deliver due to a messy gameplay style.

Planet of Lana is a captivating adventure with a wonderful art direction. The first half of the game works way better than the latter, when some of the ideas in its level design feels a little redundant, but the game as a whole is a touching and pleasant journey that you may hold dear for quite sometime.

Hunt the Night is a challenging and rewarding game with a grim atmosphere, a great art design and a well balanced combat system.

Mail Time is a tender adventure set in a fairy tale forest, with simple and relaxing game mechanics and a very pleasant soundtrack.

TT Isle Of Man: Ride on the Edge 3 is moving in the right direction, but it still lacks many details. The foundation is good, the location is excellent, but the driving model and attention to detail need to be revised. Although the new development team is heading in the right direction to deliver a solid simulation system, there are still many steps to take to catch up with competitors. The introduction of an open world is highly commendable, but more needs to be done, more needs to be offered. The game is enjoyable to play but may not be satisfying for experienced players and is not that straightforward for newcomers. However, we are confident that this can be the beginning of a very interesting journey for the new concept of the TT Isle Of Man series.

The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom is the perfect sequel and the best game of the Nintendo Switch generation.

Honkai Star Rail is yet another surprising small jewel, proving itself to be so much more than just a "Genshin Impact in space".

Darkest Dungeon II is a new fight against the eldritch horror, but this time the roguelite formula doesn't fit perfectly with the title. Despite some stiff parts, the intense and cruel battles are still at the core of the experience.

Stranded: Alien Dawn is a good survival and strategy game. The project allows to manage a settlers team in an unexplored planet with a lot of gameplay possibility and it's pretty enjoyable even playing with a controller.

Story premise and good puzzles aside, The Last Case of Benedict Fox is a wasted opportunity. With stiff controls, inaccurate hitboxes, slow inputs and many gameplay hiccups, it's a game that should have stayed in development longer.

Afterimage is a solid and aesthetically amazing metroidvania. Despite some minor flaws, it's a title absolutely worth playing for all the fans of the genre.

Redfall shows some good ideas (especially in its level design), but they are not enough to compete with the brilliant previous works that Arkane gave birth to.

The Mageseeker: A League of Legends Story is an interesting title that allows you to delve into a very vast world, full of magic and stories to tell. This spin-off allows you to go into detail about the history of some heroes, opening the doors of League of Legends even to those who are not attracted by MOBAs. The development team has managed to create a solid and well-constructed product. The story has a good narrative: it's not perfect, but still interesting. The gameplay is full of action, with different stages and enemies. It starts with simple attacks and moves to complex sets of satisfying combinations.

Teslagrad 2 is a game that is worth trying out for fans of metroidvanias — but you have to accept that everything can end suddenly right when it's getting to the best part.

Star Wars Jedi: Survival is the classical sequel "Bigger, better and more badass", but due to some technical issues and engine limitations it cannot fully take flight.

Stray blade is a good product with an fascinating story set in a dynamic open world. But you need to get over many technical and gameplay limitations in order to approach correctly the adventure.

Trinity Trigger is clearly inspired by the iconic RPGs of yesteryear, but its accessible and rewarding gameplay doesn't fit for nostalgic and hardcore players: the game is too easy and the graphics reminds of old PS2 games.

Despite some intriguing ideas in its combat system, the game is brought down by its trivial and boringly verbose writing.

Nostalgia hits hard with this one and tons of contents pay homage to the franchise that is heart and blood of the JRPG genre.

Anthology of Fear plays and feels like a horror game of ten years ago, with useless jumpscares, a lot of backtracking and a forgettable story.

Pupperazzi is the ideal game for everyone who wants to take a break from the daily grind and lose themselves in an unsettling world where humans don't exist. Taking pictures of dogs, choosing the right settings and outfit is fun and relaxing. While it is not a game without flaws, Pupperazzi succeeds in its goal to amuse the gamer with absurd scenarios and hilarious characters.

A well-made remake that smartly avoids some of the mistakes we saw in Chapter One.

Nintendo, Intelligent Systems and WayForward hit the mark (almost) across the board: Advance Wars Re-Boot Camp is a product with attention to every detail, an all-round remake that preserves all the good that was in the original products and makes them also attractive to the new generations thanks to a series of precautions and improvements to the user experience. Whether you are looking for a strategic hit and run that introduces you to the genre or one that is only apparently soft but capable of making you sweat a lot, here you will find lots of content and gameplay as punctual as a Swiss watch, which makes the balance and the plurality of approaches some of its cornerstones. We weren't particularly impressed by the new art direction and we would have liked to have access to the two episodes of the series released on Nintendo DS as well, but these are small details in a picture that has left us very satisfied. Now, to what saint do we have to devote ourselves to have a remake of F-Zero?

It is useless to get around it: we all feared that Dead Island 2 was vaporware at first, and then that it would arrive on the shelves not quite in shape, after a long, complicated development that did not bode well. And instead, for once, we are here to tell you about a happy ending: even without rewriting new pages in the history of first-person action RPGs, Dambuster Studios' zombie game turns out to be hilarious, long-lived, with only a handful of mechanics to internalize and lots of fun for those who will. The strengths are represented by the accuracy of the FLESH system, which changes the approach to certain clashes, by the iconicity of many of the locations visited, by the good level of challenge and even by a cooperative that proved to be solid during our tests . On the other hand, neither the feeling of firearms nor the technical sector limited by cross-gen development have fully convinced us, but the final balance remains largely positive.

Baseball fans will love it, but the game does nothing special to feel like something new – or next-gen.

It's hard to dislike a collection like this, with ten games (actually six, but it's a lot of content nonetheless) that still hold their own thanks to a solid and original battle system and a right difficulty level. The game are maybe too similar to one another, but they're still enjoyable, especially in portable mode on the Nintendo Switch.

Minecraft Legends is an ambitious experiment that tries to merge the franchise's most loved aesthetics and mechanics with those typical of a real-time strategy game: an idea that, while proving to be very fun in some moments, shows many gaps view of creativity and freedom of approach.

An interesting strategic game that delves deep in the Great War and its senseless fights.

Frantic, spectacular and fun, Everspace 2 is limited only by its own abundance, that can stun the player.

With its original concept, Storyteller is one-of-a-kind and we really hope to see more of it in the future, maybe with a sequel or some DLCs.

The gameplay isn't as smooth and is certainly less intuitive, as well as more complex, than the 2K alternative. It is a fun game, without a doubt, but which in some choices is a bit immature and which still has some way to go: we have some technical stumbles, little care in customization and a gameplay that could be revised to be more accessible to the public.

Despite its many flaws, Crime Boss Rockay City is often fun and will make you wonder what would have happened if you decided to approach things differently. Unfortunately, the game feels not-so-polished and, apart from some technical issues on PC, its structure doesn't give enough credit to some of its good design idea.

Road 96 Mile 0 is a choir that sings for free speech, even if it lacks that sense of adventure that made the original game unique and unforgettable.

It's impossible not to get caught in Dredge's clutches: supernatural horror, dry and fascinating narrative and an intoxicating gameplay loop make Black Salt Games' first effort an indie to remember.

A compelling mix of adventures and beat'em up, BROK is one of a kind experience that players will definitely enjoy.

No Longer Home is a short-lived but compelling experience about "home" being someone and not just somewhere.

If you have already played the sacred monsters of the genre previously released and you are , like us, great admirers of the splendid artistic direction of Kaminari and company, here you will still find bread for your teeth for at least fifteen hours.

Terra Nil is a game that you can just love, even with some of its flaws.

A thrilling, challenging, and extremely rewarding journey.

The third chapter of Atelier Ryza is a pleasant adventure to say goodbye to Reisalin Stout and all her friends, until we figure out what the future of the gaming franchise will be.

Even though the Switch version is the less attractive of the bunch, Remnant from the Ashes remains a solid effort from Gunfire Games and an original spin on the Souls formula. We're curious to see what the studio will come come up with the second chapter.

Tchia is pure peace and it's the kind of game that we all really need in this era.

Another step ahead for a franchise that finally found its way to a bright future.

The remake of Resident Evil 4 is yet another demonstration of a Capcom back with arrogance in a state of grace. After the previous works that left no doubts about the quality of the management and the power of the new direction undertaken, the delicate operation - due to the importance of the game in question - succeeds perfectly and gives new light to a timeless masterpiece, which boasts numerous improvements and eliminates those out of place elements that have lost their polish over time. It is an improved remake, very careful and without major flaws, which gives one of Capcom's most important games its best dress.

Not everything is perfect in Have a Nice Death, but the intriguing structure and the amazing art direction give to this game a lot to say and to be proud of.

There's clearly passion and commitment behind Mato Anomalies, which is a strange container of a lot of ideas. The problem is that none of these is properly developed, and, unfortunately, the final result is even less than the sum of its parts.

The story is told as if it were a small interactive fairy tale and the gameplay itself, with puzzles and fights, proves to be convincing, despite being characterized by a practically total absence of challenge from start to finish. Considering that Bayonetta is known to be a challenging saga, this is an aspect that could inevitably disappoint historical fans, but if they are willing to relax and enjoy an adventure unlike any other, here they will discover a narrative capable of delving even into the main plot. of the trilogy – and an adorably successful experiment.

The game feels more like a nostalgic tribute to the original that came out on PSOne and does barely anything to make its formula feel fresher and more enjoyable.

Gomorra is an interesting adaptation: the storytelling works and gives some replay value to the adventure, but the managerial part of the gameplay feels lacklustre.

Kids in love with DC Comics will surely enjoy this simplified and humorous open world adventure.

This new iteration feels fun for both bike-enthusiasts and newcomer alike, but it's still an old-gen game and it shows.

Project Zero Mask of the Lunar Eclipse is probably one of the best episodes in the long-running horror franchise, and even if this remaster leaves something to be desired, it does not fail in brining bringing anxiety and disturbing matters to new audiences.

Immerse yourself in a dystopian world contaminated with toxic fungi, where a robot watches over the last surviving human. With its plot and art direction, Void Terrarium 2 is undoubtedly fascinating, but it really does nothing new.

This is just the second half of the same game played six months ago on the same platform, and, as such, is a solid and perfectly enjoyable old style JRPG with some rough edges and little courage. If you love the saga overall, it cannot be missed.

If you are looking for some relaxing gameplay, Cuddly Forest Friends has got what it's needed, both for children and adults.

Blood Bowl 3 feels like an early access game and that's a real shame, because the fun gameplay is plagued by a ton of inexplicable design choices and the pushy microtransactions do the rest.

Wo Long: Fallen Dynasty almost looks like a spin-off from Nioh, from which it recycles most of the assets and from which it candidly copulates most of the game systems. The most important additions are the morale system, the sorceries and the spirit bar (in turn very similar to the posture already seen in Sekiro), which all in all work great and also manage to guarantee a good variety in the adventure . However, Team Ninja must look beyond and experiment with something new, because it has been continuing to offer us essentially the same basic game for six years, with small and not so relevant improvements.

Scars Above is pretty much forgettable and that's a real shame, because some of its intriguing ideas had no chance to shine in the game structure and its mechanics.

New Allies fails in breathing new life in The Settlers' franchise: the crossover between the classic gameplay and the RTS mechanics feels dull and rushed, leaving the player with the feeling that this is not The Settlers' return they longingly waited for.

After the great success of Ender Lilies, we expected that Redemption Reapers could follow the same virtuous path of the previous game. The reality is that despite some good gameplay mechanics, everything seems like an early access game.

Its good ideas are plagued by microtransactions and that's a shame. Lara deserves way better.