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.
In the same way DC Comics’ heroes struggle to keep their normal lives separate from their masked alter egos, LEGO Batman 3: Beyond Gotham suffers from an identity crisis.
Like the first Grimrock, it attempts to bring a fresh perspective to old PC
dungeon crawler franchises like Wizardry, The Bard’s Tale, and Might
& Magic.
