A Righteous Fury
HIGH Old-school adventure that isn’t trying to be artsy and emo.
LOW Graphics are behind the times and the engine is shaky.
WTF I totally missed a story-important boss.
Darksiders 3 (PS4) Review
Author: Darren Forman
Outward Review
A Familiar Journey
HIGH Finding a sweet new backpack to carry more stuff in.
LOW The combat is super, super basic.
WTF The best backpack I found was two treasure chests
lashed together with a belt.
Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice Review
Shadows Massacre Thousands
HIGH Landing Shinobi Executions on some vicious bosses.
LOW I miss finding new, fashionable types of armor in the world.
WTF The memory sequences are a time paradox just waiting to
happen.
God Eater 3 Review
Dig in, baby!
HIGH Dazing an Aragami and the whole squad wrecking its face before it can recover.
LOW The battle system lends itself to plenty of repetition.
WTF Nobody on the ship finds Phym annoying?
Dead Or Alive 6
Dead Tired
HIGH Landing that new Break Blow animation. Yeah! Smack them in the face!
LOW As a value proposition, it’s clearly inferior to its predecessor in terms of content.
WTF Rachel and Momiji don’t make the cut but Raidou and Phase 4 do? Ugh.
Devil May Cry 5 Review
The Devil You Knew
HIGH Nailing a chain of seemingly-disparate moves that flow into a gloriously insane combo.
LOW They really should have added a dedicated dodge button by now.
WTF Yeah Sony, that’s some real subtle censorship in the PS4 version.
Astroneer Review
Neerly There
HIGH Establishing the first fully-featured base feels awesome.
LOW The experience is fairly buggy.
WTF All this space age tech, and no simple method to descend into caverns.
Metro: Exodus Review
It’s All About The Journey
HIGH The new, more open areas are beautifully realized.
LOW Getting lost in these areas and wandering aimlessly.
WTF ‘Sacrifishious’ would have been a much better trophy name…
Ashen Review
Dim Souls
HIGH Watching vagrants drift into my town and make it their home.
LOW The Seat of the Matriarch and the final boss are both terrible, terrible experiences.
WTF Dude, where’s my companion?
Travis Strikes Again: No More Heroes review
Holding Out For A Hero
HIGH Lots of Suda’s trademark style.
LOW The gameplay’s nowhere near as inspired.
WTF Travis’ cat is capable of operating a fax machine.
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