Despite fumbles with its new melee combat and difficulty balancing, Control Resonant's storytelling, world, and bizarre quests kept me eager to explore its distorted New York.
Simon Ordell’s journey through the Scottish town of St. Amelia in 1996 is not without its shortcomings, but the experience is an affecting one buoyed by the first-person perspective.
Building on the already-great remake of the first game, Trails in the Sky 2nd Chapter masterfully updates the gameplay and timeless story, adding up to what is now the Trails series’ defining entry, and one of the best RPGs of the year.
Silent Hill: Downpour is a more
balanced effort than previous entries, but an unfocused story, miserable combat, and general
lack of creepiness restrict the game to a limbo of mediocrity.
Mario Party 9 has changed a few things to make the luck-of-the-draw
experience more tolerable, but winning a coin flip is still about the
same as winning a game of Mario Party.
Mass Effect 3 shows us how great
the Reaper threat is both to the inhabitants of this fictional universe and
to the players who must face off against it.
