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Considering the series has long leaned on its competitive aspect when it comes to multiplayer, this makes Puzzle Bobble Everybubble a great purchase for anyone who doesn’t use video games to assert dominance over their friends. Largely, Puzzle Bobble Everybubble is just more Puzzle Bobble, but it’s an extremely solid entry in the series with an addition that will make it almost indispensable to some fans of bubble popping.

I think LEGO 2K Drive is a legitimately good racer. It handles well, it runs at an unshakable frame rate on PS5, the vehicle workshop is easy-to-use, and the track designs, while sorely limited in theme, complement the eccentricities of the gameplay. When I’m playing through the Cup Series either against the AI or online, I’m having a great time.

While its vulgar, neon nightmare visuals won’t be to everyone’s taste, and its rock-solid challenge is not to be denied, Fight’N Rage stands above many of its contemporaries as a lesson in retrofuturistic game design, bolstered by the power of a screaming guitar and a well-placed roundhouse.

Without spoiling all of the new unlocks, combat is much more dynamic with Fusion-based shenanigans and capsule toys. Elemental attacks are at the forefront of Tears of the Kingdom‘s fighting system, and there are more opportunities to mix and match playstyles due to Fusing items into arrows and weapons. I ended up using my bow roughly twice as much in Tears of the Kingdom as I did in Breath of the Wild, which added a lot more depth to combat beyond the typical “block/dodge/flurry” system of the latter.

As an immersive game, it falls short. And as a shooter, it’s too routine for me. There are better options out there, with more dynamic loot and discoverable environmental interactions. There are better boss fights than we see here. The open world doesn’t give me enough options, and too frequently, I found myself falling into a routine of running from waypoint to waypoint.

Minabo boils life down a bit too far. Life is so unbearably exhausting and complicated, and Minabo is boring and simple. It’s not that I think that it needs to be crushingly depressing or maddeningly frustrating, but there needs to be some sort of conflict or tension.

With its eye-meltingly gorgeous scenery and romantic subplot, Burning Shores feels like a dream at times, a brief moment of relative serenity before Aloy faces off against what is sure to be her greatest challenge thus far. Though Nemesis will likely push Aloy to her limits, the meaningful relationships she has forged and the beauty of the world around her give her more than enough reasons to keep fighting.

It’s not a transcendental experience that is going to leave a permanent mark. It doesn’t aim to be taken very seriously. Mail Time wants to be an enjoyable and easy-going experience for everyone. It’s cute, inoffensive, and creative. Mail Time is perhaps exactly what we need more of.

It is weird in a way, because (like Torna) it shows how pointed Xenoblade could be, for those of you who don’t dig playing through a massive, and sometimes meandering, full-on RPG. But by that same token, the team expects you to have already finished said massive game to fully appreciate what’s going on. It’s an interesting dichotomy Monolith Soft has created here, as it’s a “for the fans” story, but one that happens to have a lot of really cool alterations that could have made it into the core game.

While the original Jedi game had shades of Star Wars, Survivor is drenched in Star Wars theming. In a good way! The soundtrack is absolutely fantastic, to the point where it’s movie-worthy quality. It elevates everything, from the action scenes to the drama, and some of the more adrenaline-pumping beats wouldn’t work as well without it.