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Visually this is exactly what you expect with tons of pixels on the screen constantly. There are options to tone down the excessive retro look, but I really loved it more than the smoothed out look. The game runs fantastically on Series X with nary a hint of slowdown. Guns feel and sound fantastic and the raw carnage just pops on a proper sound system or headphones. This game is chunky in all the right ways and I absolutely loved the look and feel of everything. It is an immensely satisfying experience from top to bottom.

Now Diablo 4 is going to come bursting in and demanding that same type of time commitment with a sprawling game world to explore on foot or horseback. Between dungeons, world events, side quests and even the main quests players will never be too far from something interesting to inspect or kill in Sanctuary. Diablo 4 feels like a wonderful homecoming, with its darker tone and sublime cutscenes which Blizzard has always been wonderful at; the whole game just feels like a love letter to us fans who have waited so long to return to Hell and defeat its denizens once more.

Full of cameos and easter eggs for League fans and having some genuinely fun boss fights against some champions from Runeterra there is a lot to love in Convergence for longtime LoL fans. Its solid gameplay, fantastic graphical style, and excellent metroidvania gameplay makes this game one that even those non-fans of the series will love.

Visually this is built more on older Arc technology so don’t expect the flashy anime polygons from Guilty Gear Strive. Instead this feels more like a collection of pixels from previous games. The Persona characters for instance look and feel basically like they did in their two fighting games. The backgrounds are gorgeous and the game moves a fast clip and feels fantastic. This is a 2D visual feast for the eyes. The soundtrack is amazing and the voice, while a bit overbearing at times, are well implemented.

While there are still some improvements to be made in terms of difficulty balancing and dungeon designs, Octopath Traveler 2 makes meaningful improvements over the original and manages to realize most of its lofty ambitions, culminating into an experience not to be missed by any JRPG fan.

Overall, this is a great program as long as nothing else is expected other than dungeon creation and playing. It’s pretty easy to use and there’s definitely an audience that is going to make crazy dungeons with it, but that audience isn’t me.

Being a narrative adventure means that players will have limited interactions with things on screen, for instance when Diaz needed to investigate why Ambassador Spock’s shuttle suddenly stop being able to engage warp drive the game directed me to press a button to pull out my tricorder to being scanning.

Combat is fast and fluid in The Mageseekers, almost too fast for its own good. While Sylas can dash around levels and aim spells with the right analog stick, putting to use his whole repertoire of moves can be difficult when multiple enemies fill the screen. When the action heats up and things are flying around it can be difficult to keep track of Sylas and easy to get hung up on a bit of level geometry which just further upsets things.

Bayonetta Origins: Cereza and the Lost Demon is a big departure from the mainline Bayonetta games usual formula. Instead of leaning on fast paced combat, scantily clad lead, a loud soundtrack and a story with a lot of killing and revenge. Instead, this is a family-friendly story, one that is told like a grand storybook and even has themes of love and friendship throughout.

Gameplay is king and in Disney Speedstorm I think players will find the most approachable kart racer out there. Controls have a variety of accessibility options that will help newcomers as well as grizzled kart veterans like myself. One of the best things in the game is the ease of use with the drifting mechanic. In a lot of games, it is very sensitive to when players go into and exit a drift move, but in Speedstorm the game is extremely forgiving and allows entering and boosting out of a drift move to happen fluidly and with ease.