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When Pokémon Legends: Z-A was announced, I felt that familiar spark of curiosity that Legends: Arceus first lit. It was clear that Game Freak wasn’t content to just rest on nostalgia anymore, they were trying to reshape what a Pokémon game could be. That’s what makes the Legends series exciting to me. After 30 years of largely sticking to the … Read More

When Obsidian Entertainment announced The Outer Worlds 2, I didn’t need much convincing. This is one of the busiest and most reliable studios around, they’ve already shipped Avowed and Grounded 2 this year alone, and if any team knows how to make a witty, choice-driven RPG set among the stars, it’s them. I had a great time with the first … Read More

When Ghost of Yotei was first announced, I wasn’t exactly sure what to expect. I loved Ghost of Tsushima, and while I wanted more of that world, I also didn’t want a sequel that just rehashed old ideas. What Sucker Punch delivered instead is something smarter, a successor that builds upon Tsushima’s core systems and design philosophy but stands completely … Read More

If you know much about my gaming tastes, you’ll know I’m a massive fan of the Persona series. Their mix of intriguing stories, the blend of intense rpg battles and systems and slice of life elements and amazing characters put it at a level that make it hard to match. In recent years, the series has been making its way … Read More

From the moment I first saw Bye Sweet Carole, it had me very intrigued. That very first trailer, with its stunning hand-drawn animation and vintage storybook look immediately caught my eye. It felt like watching a lost Disney film from the 1940s, except this one hid something darker beneath the surface. When I realised it wasn’t just a cute platformer … Read More

I’ll admit it, despite owning a Wii back in the day, I never played Super Mario Galaxy or its sequel. I watched friends rave about them, I heard the music, I saw clips of people running around tiny planets, but for one reason or another, I just never took the plunge. And that always bugged me a bit, because these … Read More

After years of silence and uncertainty, we’ve entered what feels like a true Silent Hill resurgence. We had the Silent Hill 2 Remake last year, there’s a new Silent Hill movie on the way, as well as a remake of the original game in development. And now we have Silent Hill f, a completely new entry that dares to take … Read More

I first fell in love with strategy RPGs when I played Final Fantasy Tactics Advance on the Game Boy Advance. That tactical, grid-based battle system, the pause and planning, the sense of each move having weight, it awakened something in me. After polishing off that game, I felt the pull to go backward, to the origin. I tracked down the … Read More

When Nintendo dropped the DK Island & Emerald Rush Expansion for Donkey Kong Bananza, It honestly came as a big surprise. The base game only swung onto the Nintendo Switch 2 a couple of months ago, so seeing a full-blown expansion pack this soon, announced during the latest Nintendo Direct no less, was surprising enough. But the bigger shock was … Read More

There’s a reason people call The Legend of Heroes series one of the most ambitious RPG sagas ever made. Spanning multiple arcs, continents, and generations of characters, it’s a series that has been quietly building one of gaming’s richest interconnected universes for over two decades. Between Trails in the Sky, Trails of Cold Steel, Trails into Reverie, and now Trails … Read More