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This is the third time I've reviewed some version of Diablo 3, and each time I've been met by a better, more refined experience. Ultimate Evil Edition collects the entirety of that experience in a slick new wrapper, giving console owners a complete, and uncompromised version of Diablo 3.

I had some fun blasting around and mowing down baddies with my Dreadnaught's heavy machine gun. But in its current state? It's not a world that I want to stick around to save.

All of that is undermined, however, by elements that make the campaign drag. The plot never ramps up, the characters barely change, and the choice to make most NPCs a shopkeep and/or teacher makes equipping and learning new skills a mess, all of which keep Risen 3 from - ahem - rising to modern RPG expectations.

Hohokum is the latest title in a long lineage of artistically inclined, thoroughly unique PlayStation exclusives. From Vib Ribbon through to LocoRoco, Flower, Tokyo Jungle, Sound Shapes and more, it’s in good company, and deserves to be uttered in the same breath as those much-loved cult classics.

Metrico è un puzzle-platform esistenziale e dinamico, un gioco (un gioco??! Sì, un gioco!) difficile da spiegare, una sorta di prototipo fatto, finito e venduto, enigmatico e conturbante, una rarefatta gabbia ludica per le nostre coscienze, da cui tentare (invano?) di evadere.

Wii Sports Club mostly succeeds in refining the classic Wii launch title thanks to smart use of the GamePad and Wii MotionPlus. While the inclusion of online play creates some issues with the slower-moving sports, it’s still a fun addition for Tennis and Baseball. Whether you want to play casually or competitively, Wii Sports Club proves that the core Wii Sports experience wasn’t just lightning in a bottle.

As a statistical simulation, Out of the Park Baseball 15 is as much a “not for everyone” game as you can get. But if the math of baseball has ever fascinated, or the hope that your gut-feeling about numbers on a screen proved successful, it’s easy to recommend OOTP 15. It ain’t pretty, it ain’t noisy, it will absolutely piss you off, but that only makes those successes all the sweeter.

Micromon makes no effort to hide the fact that it is a shameless ripoff of Pokemon with barely an idea to call its own. While retreading all the same plots and themes makes the story virtually inconsequential, Micromon still manages to provide a good amount of fun thanks to how it also cribs Pokemon's tried-and-true battle and capture systems.

Siesta Fiesta takes classic Breakout gameplay and builds upon it in new and mostly successful ways. Its scrolling levels are full of life and each world implements unique environmental hazards to overcome. While the omission of leaderboards and StreetPass functionality does make Siesta Fiesta a lonely experience, it’s still a fun, challenging game that deftly blends a variety of retro genres.

Xenonauts makes a noble effort to replicate the brilliant and tense style of old-school X-COM’s multi-layered tactics and strategy. It even breathes new life into the ground and air battles with some original ideas, albeit with a bland art style. However, Xenonauts has major issues with conveying crucial information, and fails - or rather, makes little effort - to smooth over its interface or otherwise make itself palatable for anyone who isn’t already intimately familiar with the 1994 original.