Red River is a big step back from its predecessor, delivering less content (vehicles are almost gone) and a lame AI, which spoils most of the single player fun. On the other hand, online coop is well developer, and it makes the experience more enjoyable. If you are a fan of the brand, consider buying only if you have four friends to play online with.

The Sims Medieval - Pirates and nobles is a standard adventure pack that doesn't add nothing really new to the game but just brings more hours to the linear, but fun, gameplay.

Fast, fun and skill based. The Showdown effect has all the elements to be one of the most relevant competitive game of the season.

Quotation forthcoming.

Watch Dogs 2: No Compromise ends a season pass that did not shine. For No Compromise, a purchase is only recommended to those who are willing to spend ten euros for another daily mission with Marcus & Co. For those looking for something new to come back and play for the title Ubisoft purchase is not recommended.

Shiness: The Lightning Kingdom combines the classic JRPG adventure format with fighting mechanics. Well knowing this is from a small french indie team, Enigami, we can see all the passion and the work behind the game, but we can also see all the limits due to the smallness of the project itself. All these problems afflict the gameplay, on the technical side, and mostly the combat system, the one who should made this videogame really shine. In the end, we can see a great potential from Enigami team, but we can't deny that Shiness is a good game with many problems.

Shining Resonance Refrain is a missed opportunity for Sega to bring its beloved JRPG series to the west in its better form. The remaster has several problems (both technical and structural), but can still deliver some fun to the hardcore aficionados.

Another journey through the ancient Cina history, but in terms of gameplay it doesn't innovate the core system.

Romance of the Three Kingdoms XIV still carries the hard tradition of strategic games on console. The game gives a great deal both on personalization and historical context, and tries to recover a more traditional conception, giving a better result on commanding in a strategic gameplay with a gamepad, instead of a mouse. However, even if the satisfaction of conquering and well-administrating land it’s undeniable, this search for tradition pushes the game further towards only a specialized niche of public.

LEGO Brawls is, regrettably, a missed opportunity and its excessive simplicity makes this game recommendable only to young and inexperienced players.

Fate/Extella: The Umbral Star is a game made of highs and lows. Its indisputable merits counteract an equally large number of defects, which make the purchase only recommended to fans of the Fate series.

Being a tie-in, and for the younger audience too, Adventure Time is a decent platformer with some degrees of rpg-lite. The lack of voice acting and the shortness of the gaming experience keep it from a better score.

Romance of the Three Kingdoms XIII only looks good on paper, with its historical setting and many things to do. In practice, however, it is just the most boring strategic game to play, afflicted with an unstable frame-rate and audio bugs.

One more of the same in a series that is already well known. If you loved the previous chapters, you'll like this too.

Mount & Blade: Warband is an awesome "Middle Age simulator". If you are not afraid of an hard initial approach and love roguelike mechanics, this game could give you a lot of hours of pure fun. The translation on console has however some defects, like the less approachable combat system on pad, the strategic component that is more difficult to use and no mod support.

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.

If you are a novice of the series, Pro Cycling Manager 2014 can be considered as a good deal. If you are an expert, on the other hand, you may find again some issues and flaws from the previous version. Nonetheless, the title offers a decent experience after all.

Dreamfall Chapter is a complete collection ported on Ps4 and Xbox One of the episodic adventures published on Pc starting from 2014, set in the marvelous world of the Longest Journey saga. The nice adventure game is supported by amazing storytelling and top notch art direction, but unfortunately is technically mediocre, and this fact is made more evident due to a not so great console porting. If you loved April Ryan and Zoë Castillo journeys, you need, no, you actually MUST play this game, but if it’s your first travel in the reigns of Stark and Arcadia, well… this is not the right chapter to start from.

Shenmue III is a nostalgia trip done right and a great sequel for all the fans of the franchise, but, at the same time, just an average game for all the younger players who never got to play the first two episodes.

Battle Fantasia is indeed an original product, different from other titles of the same genre. A gameplay too easy and boring completely spoils the fun, placing this title way below Arc System Works standards.

Whether you are a causal or a hardcore gamer, Modern Combat Versus will be the best mobile shooter on which you could lay your hands this year. Gameloft offers 12 characters you can go wild with in ranked matches, without compromises on the customization system. This brand new experience is enriched by astounding visuals and a perfect control system. That said, the game is not perfect. You just can't ignore the lack of content at day one and there still are some worrying balance issues.

NBA 2K21 entertains with strong gameplay, but the new shooting system lacks precision and may feel frustrating.

Travis Strikes Again No More Heroes is a very particular game, never trivial, and does a great job on Switch.

Born from the ashes of The Settlers: Kingdom of Anteria, the new Champions of Anteria is a good mix between RTS, turn-based strategy and GDR, with a good level of difficulty and several tattical approaches, but has some trouble with the AI.

The same old song, even though in a flashy new dress. Still not enough to gain more than a sufficiency.

Dissidia Final Fantasy NT is an arena-brawler with a beautiful roster, confused gameplay, and lacks of a 1vs1 mode. Well-balanced, linked to eSports, has some elements that could be adapted to the casual player or the Final Fantasy fan, to make itself more complete.

Although we appreciated that frantic action seen in Yo-Kai Watch Blasters, our love for the unique combat system seen in the first two episodes remains unchanged, and we hope to see it return as soon as possible in the franchise. This spin-off is a nice buy for the newcomers, though.

State of Mind tells a compelling story about a futuristic world that can be very close to our on the next fifty years. Besides the wonderful narrative, low budget and scarce gameplay ideas are the only reasons why Daedalic game can't compete with the other famous competitor.